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Rafael Brandao is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from Brazil. Rafael Brandao has a verified height of 5'11" (180 cm) and a recorded contest weight of 250 lb (113 kg).

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6 career wins

Rafael Brandao

CountryBrazil
GenderMale
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High confidence 25 recorded results, Official/primary source Updated August 14, 2026 Accurate?

Rafael Brandao is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from Brazil with a competitive record spanning 2015–2026.

Across 25 recorded contest results, Rafael Brandao has 6 first-place finishes (a 24% win rate).

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 25 recorded 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.

Missing from this profile

No birthdate on record.

Rafael Brandao, a bodybuilder from Brazil, stands 5'11" (180 cm) tall and competes at a contest weight of around 250 lb (113 kg).

Career Record

Total Results
25
Wins
6
Win Rate
24%
Career
2015–2026
Height
5'11" (180 cm)
Weight
250 lb (113 kg)
Country
Brazil
Verified
Sources
25

Every season on record

2015 to 2026 shown · 25 results on record

Peak Year 2024 (2 wins)

Measured against Rafael Brandao’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →

2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2024
2026
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
2015
Olympia Debut
2022
Peak Year
2024
Last Contest
2026
Rafael Brandao Olympia Career: 0 title(s). First appeared at the Olympia in 2022 and placed 10. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
Year Placement Division
2022 10 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2024 8 Men's Open Bodybuilding

Data updated

Championship record

Championship appearances

Counted from the same results table below: an appearance is one recorded placing at that series, a title is a first place, and Top 3 counts first, second and third together. The last row is every contest on record for Rafael Brandao, amateur shows included.

Mr. Olympia

2Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3

Arnold Classic

8Appearances
2Titles
6Top 3

All contests on record

25Contests
6Wins
15Top 3
Physique benchmark

How Rafael Brandao 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.

32.9FFMI
32.9Normalised FFMI
87thOf 316 measured men

The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Lee Haney, at 32.1.

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: 73 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 Rafael Brandao sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.

All results

Every contest result on record for Rafael Brandao, 25 in all. The table opens on the first 15 and expands in place from there. Nothing sits on a separate page. Won by names the winner of the division Rafael Brandao competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.

YearContestDivisionPlaceWon by
2026 2026 New York Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Tonio Burton
2026 2026 Pittsburgh Power & Fitness Festival Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Michal Krizanek
2026 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #6
2024 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Hadi Choopan
2024 Arnold Classic Brasil Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2024 IFBB Romania Muscle Fest Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2024 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Samson Dauda
2022 Arnold Classic South America Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2022 Mr. Olympia Men's Open Bodybuilding #10 Hadi Choopan
2021 IFBB Romania Muscle Fest Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2020 Europa Dallas Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 James Hollingshead
2020 Europa Pro Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 James Hollingshead
2019 Arnold Classic Men's Open Bodybuilding #7 Brandon Curry
2019 Arnold Classic South America Men's Classic Physique #2 Juan Morel
2019 Arnold Classic South America Men's Open Bodybuilding #2 Juan Morel
2019 IFBB Bigman Weekend Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Joshua Lenartowicz
2018 California Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Nathan De Asha
2018 IFBB California State Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #3 Nathan De Asha
2018 IFBB New York Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #6 Nathan De Asha
2018 IFBB Toronto Pro Supershow Men's Open Bodybuilding #5 Antoni Khadraoui
2018 Muscle Mayhem Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Charles Griffen
2017 San Marino Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Cedric McMillan
2016 South American Amateur Championships Men's Open Bodybuilding #1 Winner
2015 Arnold Amateur Europe Other Divisions #3 Alexander Westermeier
2015 South American Amateur Championships Other Divisions #1 Winner

Showing 15 of 25 recorded results. Showing all 25 recorded results.

Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Rafael Brandao those sources are NPC Contests, MuscleMemory, IFBB Pro League and Arnold Sports. 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.

In 5 meetings, Hadi Choopan finished ahead of Rafael Brandao 5 times to 0.

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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