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4 career wins

Rafael Brandao

CountryBrazil
GenderMale
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Rafael Brandao is a Men's Open Bodybuilding competitor from Brazil with a competitive record spanning 2017–2026.

Championship record

Championship appearances

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 Rafael Brandao.

Mr. Olympia

2Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3

Arnold Classic

3Appearances
0Titles
1Top 3

All contests on record

22Contests
4Wins
12Top 3

Professional results

Every professional contest result on record for Rafael Brandao, 22 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 Juan Morel
2018 Muscle Mayhem Men's Open Bodybuilding #4 Charles Griffen
2017 San Marino Pro Men's Open Bodybuilding #8 Cedric McMillan

Showing 15 of 22 professional results. Showing all 22 professional 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.

Every professional season

2017 to 2026 shown · 22 professional results

Peak Year 2024 (2 wins)

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

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2024
2026
Olympia 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Other
Pro Debut
2017
First Win
2021
Olympia Debut
2022
Peak Year
2024
Last Contest
2026

Rafael Brandao at the Olympia, year by year

Rafael Brandao at the Mr. Olympia: no title, first appearance 2022. Source: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database.
Year Placement Division
2022 10 Men's Open Bodybuilding
2024 8 Men's Open Bodybuilding

Data updated

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

Amateur and other shows not counted above

3 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
YearContestDivisionPlace
2016 South American Amateur Championships Men's Bodybuilding (Super Heavyweight) #1
2015 Arnold Amateur Europe Division not recorded (Junior) #3
2015 South American Amateur Championships Division not recorded (Junior Heavyweight) #1

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.

Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 22 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.

High confidence 22 professional results, Official/primary source Updated September 30, 2026 Accurate?
Missing from this profile

No birthdate on record.

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