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4x Ms. Olympia, 1996–1999
Kim Chizevsky
CountryUnited States
GenderFemale
DivisionWomen's Figure
Born1968
Born inMattoon, Illinois
StatusRetired
Kim Chizevsky won the Ms. Olympia four years running, from 1996 to 1999, and the Ms. International in 1993 and 1996. She retired from bodybuilding at the top and later competed in figure.
Known for
Four consecutive Ms. Olympia titles, and she was runner-up in 1995 the year before the run started. Six Olympia appearances in total and she was never lower than fifth.
She won the Ms. International in 1993, three years before her first Olympia title, and again in 1996 in the same season as it.
Early career
She turned professional by winning the heavyweight classes at both the 1992 North American Championships and the Junior Nationals. Fourteen contests are recorded and eight are wins.
Her full name in our corpus is Kimberly Ann Chizevsky-Nicholls.
Championship record
Where the titles came from
Counted from the same results table below: an appearance is one contest entered (in the years the Olympia also judged weight classes, one appearance can carry two placings), an Olympia title is the overall win in that division, and Top 3 counts first, second and third together. The last row is every professional contest on record for Kim Chizevsky.
Ms. Olympia
6Appearances
4Titles
5Top 3
All contests on record
12Contests
6Wins
8Top 3
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Kim Chizevsky, 12 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Kim Chizevsky competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Show of Strength Pro Championship | Women's Figure | #7 | Jenny Lynn |
| 2003 | Show of Strength Pro Championship | Women's Figure | #9 | Jenny Lynn |
| 1999 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
| 1998 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
| 1997 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
| 1996 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
| 1996 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
| 1995 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #2 | Laura Creavalle |
| 1995 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #2 | Lenda Murray |
| 1994 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #5 | Laura Creavalle |
| 1993 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
| 1993 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #5 | Lenda Murray |
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Kim Chizevsky those sources are MuscleMemory and Wikipedia. Open any contest above and that page names its own source and links to it where the source is still reachable. MuscleMemory is the exception: the archive we recorded those older shows from no longer answers at the addresses we hold, so it is credited by name and not offered as a link.
Every professional season
Peak Year 1996 (2 wins)
Measured against Kim Chizevsky’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1993
- Peak Year
- 1996
- Last Contest
- 2004
Kim Chizevsky at the Olympia, year by year
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1995 | 2 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1996 | 1 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1997 | 1 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1998 | 1 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1999 | 1 | Women's Bodybuilding |
Data updated
Physique benchmark
How Kim Chizevsky measures up
Fat-free mass index turns the height and weight on this profile into one number for how much muscle a frame carries, so a shorter competitor is not flattered by a bodyweight comparison. The normalised figure adjusts it again to a standard height, which is the version worth ranking. Both assume the 6% body fat a competitor steps on stage at, because that is the only condition the recorded weight was taken in.
20.4FFMI
20.8Normalised FFMI
83rdOf 147 measured women
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Courtney King, at 20.8, the same figure.
What this rank is not. This database holds a height and a weight for just 463 athletes, and they are overwhelmingly the ones somebody bothered to measure: 74 of them hold an Olympia title. Almost every competitor on record carries no measurement at all. The pool also mixes every division and era together, from the lightweight women's classes to the open heavyweights, so it ranks size and nothing else. It says where Kim Chizevsky sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
2 results from amateur shows and other contests this archive does not class as professional. Every total on this page covers the professional career only, so these are listed here but never counted, and they have no contest page.
Show the list
| Year | Contest | Division | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Junior Nationals | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #1 |
| 1992 | North American Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #1 |
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Legacy
Chizevsky's four titles came at the point the division was at its largest and most muscular, and the debate about where women's bodybuilding should go was loudest. She left it as champion rather than being beaten out of it.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 4 meetings, Kim Chizevsky and Lenda Murray are dead even, finishing ahead 2 times apiece.
Opponents are ranked by how often they shared a stage and how big the stage was, not by reputation. A meeting is one contest where both competed in the same division and both were placed.
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Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1992 to 2004.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 12 professional contest results. It is published only where a career holds at least five, because below that a single placing moves the figure by twenty points or more.