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Sami Al Haddad
Sami Al Haddad won the World Amateur Championships three times and the Asian Amateur Championships four times. He then turned professional and won five more contests, across a record spanning twenty-six years.
Known for
World Amateur Championships light-heavyweight titles in 2009, 2010 and 2011, with Asian titles in 1993, 1994, 2009 and 2010 and the Amateur Olympia in 2011. That five-year stretch from 2007 is the peak of the amateur record.
As a professional he won the Mozolani Pro in 2014 and 2016, the UK Bodypower Pro in 2014, the Veronica Gallego Classic in 2018 and the Musclecontest Ireland Pro in 2019. His best Olympia finish is sixth, in 2013 and 2019.
Early career
His record opens in 1993 with an Asian junior title and holds forty-four contests, twenty-seven of them at professional shows. He won the Pro Battle of Giants in 2007 and 2008, before the run of world titles.
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 Sami Al Haddad.
212 Olympia
5Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3
All contests on record
27Contests
7Wins
21Top 3
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Sami Al Haddad, 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 Sami Al Haddad competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | IFBB Romania Muscle Fest Pro | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #2 | Angel Calderon |
| 2019 | 212 Olympia | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #6 | Kamal Elgargni |
| 2019 | Musclecontest Ireland Pro | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2018 | IFBB Fiji Pro | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #2 | Jafar Ghaffarnezhad Azizi |
| 2018 | IFBB New Zealand Pro | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #2 | Jafar Ghaffarnezhad Azizi |
| 2018 | IFBB Veronica Gallego Classic | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2018 | 212 Olympia | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #13 | Flex Lewis |
| 2017 | IFBB Tampa Pro | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #3 | Derek Lunsford |
| 2016 | Mozolani Pro | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2016 | 212 Olympia | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #14 | Flex Lewis |
| 2015 | IFBB Europa Dallas | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #2 | Kang Kyung Won |
| 2014 | Korean Grand Prix | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #4 | Flex Lewis |
| 2014 | Mozolani Pro | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2014 | 212 Olympia | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #7 | Flex Lewis |
| 2014 | UK Bodypower Pro | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2013 | IFBB EVL Prague Pro | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #2 | Flex Lewis |
| 2013 | IFBB New York Pro | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #2 | Jose Raymond |
| 2013 | 212 Olympia | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #6 | Flex Lewis |
| 2013 | Prague Pro Championships | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #2 | Flex Lewis |
| 2012 | EVL Prague Pro | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #2 | Flex Lewis |
| 2012 | IFBB British Grand Prix | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #2 | Flex Lewis |
| 2012 | New York Pro | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #2 | Kevin English |
| 2008 | Pro Battle of Giants | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2007 | French Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Michalis Kefalianos |
| 2007 | Pro Battle of Giants | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2006 | Night of Champions | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Lee Priest |
| 2006 | Night of Champions Britain | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Lee Priest |
Showing 15 of 27 professional results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Sami Al Haddad those sources are NPC Contests and MuscleMemory. 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 2014 (2 wins)
Measured against Sami Al Haddad’s own seasons, not against the field.
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 2006
- First Win
- 2007
- Olympia Debut
- 2013
- Peak Year
- 2014
- Last Contest
- 2019
Sami Al Haddad at the Olympia, year by year
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | Men's 212 Bodybuilding |
| 2014 | 7 | Men's 212 Bodybuilding |
| 2016 | 14 | Men's 212 Bodybuilding |
| 2018 | 13 | Men's 212 Bodybuilding |
| 2019 | 6 | Men's 212 Bodybuilding |
Data updated
Amateur and other shows not counted above
17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Amateur Olympia | Men's Bodybuilding (Light Heavyweight) | #1 |
| 2011 | Arnold Amateur | Men's Bodybuilding (Light Heavyweight) | #3 |
| 2011 | World Amateur Championships | Men's Bodybuilding (Light Heavyweight) | #1 |
| 2010 | Arnold Amateur | Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #2 |
| 2010 | Asian Amateur Championships | Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #1 |
| 2010 | World Amateur Championships | Men's Bodybuilding (Light Heavyweight) | #1 |
| 2009 | Asian Amateur Championships | Men's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #1 |
| 2009 | World Amateur Championships | Men's Bodybuilding (Light Heavyweight) | #1 |
| 2005 | Musclemania | Division not recorded (Professional) | #1 |
| 2003 | Asian Amateur Championships | Men's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #3 |
| 2002 | Asian Amateur Championships | Men's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #2 |
| 2002 | Asian Games | Men's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #2 |
| 1998 | Asian Amateur Championships | Men's Bodybuilding (Light-Middleweight) | Unplaced |
| 1997 | Asian Amateur Championships | Men's Bodybuilding (Light-Middleweight) | Unplaced |
| 1996 | Asian Amateur Championships | Men's Bodybuilding (Light-Middleweight) | #3 |
| 1994 | Asian Amateur Championships | Division not recorded (Junior Heavyweight) | #1 |
| 1993 | Asian Amateur Championships | Division not recorded (Junior Heavyweight) | #1 |
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Legacy
Al Haddad won at the top of the amateur world circuit and then built a professional career out of it in his late thirties. Both halves are substantial and neither is written about.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 9 meetings, Flex Lewis finished ahead of Sami Al Haddad 9 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 1993 to 2019.
They are single contests.
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 weight on record.