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1x Figure Olympia, 2025
Rhea Gayle
Rhea Gayle finished thirteenth at her first Figure Olympia in 2019 and won it in 2025. Her placings on the way to the title, in order, were 13, 9, 16, 12, 7, 5 and 1, and she was fourth in 2026 as defending champion.
Known for
That sequence is the whole profile. Very few competitors in any division enter an Olympia seven times, and fewer still improve across almost all of them to finish on top. She went backwards twice and kept entering.
The professional wins came steadily through the climb: the Europa Dallas and Europa Pro in 2020, the Mr Big Evolution Pro in 2021, the Sasquatch Pro and San Antonio Pro in 2022, the Rising Phoenix Arizona Pro in 2023, the Tupelo Pro in 2024 and the Texas Pro in 2025.
Early career
Gayle is British and her recorded career starts in 2016. She competed for three years before her first Olympia and has entered every one since.
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 Rhea Gayle.
Figure Olympia
8Appearances
1Title
1Top 3
Arnold Classic
1Appearance
0Titles
0Top 3
All contests on record
27Contests
9Wins
15Top 3
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Rhea Gayle, 27 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 Rhea Gayle competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
Showing 15 of 27 professional results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Rhea Gayle those sources are NPC Contests, MuscleMemory and IFBB Pro League. 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 2020 (2 wins)
Measured against Rhea Gayle’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 2018
- Olympia Debut
- 2019
- First Win
- 2020
- Last Contest
- 2026
Rhea Gayle at the Olympia, year by year
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 13 | Figure |
| 2020 | 9 | Figure |
| 2021 | 16 | Figure |
| 2022 | 12 | Figure |
| 2023 | 7 | Figure |
| 2024 | 5 | Figure |
| 2025 | 1 | Figure |
| 2026 | 4 | Figure |
Data updated
Physique benchmark
How Rhea Gayle 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.
21.1FFMI
22.5Normalised FFMI
40thOf 147 measured women
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Nicole Wilkins, at 22.8.
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 Rhea Gayle 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
| Year | Contest | Division | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Arnold Amateur Europe | Women's Figure (Class B) | Unplaced |
| 2016 | British Championships | Women's Figure (Class A) | Unplaced |
| 2016 | British Championships | Women's Figure (Junior) | #2 |
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Legacy
Most Olympia champions arrive quickly. Gayle took seven attempts and won at the end of the longest sustained improvement in the figure division's recent record, which is a more useful example to most competitors than a fast rise.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 6 meetings, Cydney Gillon finished ahead of Rhea Gayle 6 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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Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover her record from 2016 onward.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 27 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.
Missing from this profile
No birthdate on record.