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Tonya Knight
CountryUnited States
GenderFemale
Pro Card1991
DivisionWomen's Bodybuilding
Born1966
DiedFebruary 7, 2023, aged 56
StatusRetired
Tonya Knight was a Women's Bodybuilding competitor from the United States with a competitive record spanning 1988–1993.
About
Tonya Knight was an American professional bodybuilder.
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 Tonya Knight.
Ms. Olympia
1Appearance
0Titles
0Top 3
All contests on record
7Contests
2Wins
3Top 3
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Tonya Knight, 7 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Tonya Knight competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Jan Tana Pro Classic | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #3 | Denise Rutkowski |
| 1992 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #6 | Anja Schreiner |
| 1991 | Grand Prix Italy | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
| 1991 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
| 1989 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | Unplaced | Jackie Paisley |
| 1988 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #4 | Cory Everson |
| 1988 | World Pro Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #5 | Dona Oliviera |
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Tonya Knight 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 1991 (2 wins)
Measured against Tonya Knight’s own seasons, not against the field.
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1988
- First Win
- 1991
- Last Contest
- 1993
Physique benchmark
How Tonya Knight 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.
22.9FFMI
23.4Normalised FFMI
19thOf 147 measured women
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Juliette Bergmann, at 23.1.
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 Tonya Knight 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #4 |
| 1985 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #6 |
| 1984 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Light Heavyweight) | #11 |
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Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 3 meetings, Tonya Knight finished ahead of Marie Mahabir 3 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 7 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.