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1x Ms. Olympia, 2000
Valentina Chepiga
Valentina Chepiga won the Ms. Olympia in 2000 and the Arnold Classic figure title in 2002. She is Ukrainian and competed for twenty-three years.
Known for
The 2000 Olympia title came in her third appearance, after twelfth-place finishes in 1998 and 1999. She was runner-up in 2002.
2002 was the fullest season: the Arnold Classic figure international title, the Ms. International lightweight class and the Show of Strength Pro Championship, plus the Olympia silver.
Early career
She won the European and World Amateur Championships middleweight classes in 1997, which is where the professional card came from, and the Jan Tana Pro Classic in 2000.
Her name appears in our corpus in both its transliterated forms, Chepiga and Chepiha.
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 Valentina Chepiga.
Ms. Olympia
5Appearances
1Title
2Top 3
Arnold Classic
1Appearance
1Title
1Top 3
All contests on record
15Contests
5Wins
7Top 3
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Valentina Chepiga, 15 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Valentina Chepiga competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | IFBB Arctic Pro | Women's Physique | #7 | Anne Luise Freitas |
| 2016 | Ms International | Women's Physique | Unplaced | Autumn Swansen |
| 2014 | IFBB Emerald Cup | Women's Physique | #11 | Sabrina Taylor |
| 2013 | IFBB Titans Grand Prix | Women's Physique | #10 | Sabrina Taylor |
| 2007 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #11 | Iris Kyle |
| 2003 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #5 | Cathy Lefrançois |
| 2002 | Arnold Classic | Women's Figure (International) | #1 | Winner |
| 2002 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #1 | Winner |
| 2002 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #2 | Juliette Bergmann |
| 2002 | Show of Strength Pro Championship | Women's Bodybuilding (Lightweight) | #1 | Winner |
| 2000 | Jan Tana Pro Classic | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #1 | Winner |
| 2000 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
| 1999 | Jan Tana Pro Classic | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #3 | Gayle Moher |
| 1999 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #12 | Kim Chizevsky |
| 1998 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #12 | Kim Chizevsky |
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Valentina Chepiga those sources are MuscleMemory, Wikipedia and NPC Contests. 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 2002 (3 wins)
Measured against Valentina Chepiga’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1998
- First Win
- 2000
- Peak Year
- 2002
- Last Contest
- 2016
Valentina Chepiga at the Olympia, year by year
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 12 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1999 | 12 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 2000 | 1 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 2002 | 2 | Women's Bodybuilding (lightweight class) |
| 2007 | 11 | Women's Bodybuilding |
Data updated
Physique benchmark
How Valentina Chepiga 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.
19.9FFMI
20.8Normalised FFMI
83rdOf 147 measured women
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Kim Chizevsky, at 20.8, the same figure.
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 Valentina Chepiga sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | European Amateur Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #1 |
| 1997 | World Amateur Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #1 |
| 1995 | World Amateur Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #7 |
| 1994 | European Amateur Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #2 |
| 1994 | World Amateur Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #7 |
| 1993 | European Amateur Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #3 |
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Legacy
Chepiga is one of very few competitors to win a Ms. Olympia and then an Arnold figure title, in two divisions judged by opposite standards. The record spans the period women's bodybuilding was being pulled apart into separate classes.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 4 meetings, Yaxeni Oriquen finished ahead of Valentina Chepiga 4 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 2016.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 15 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.