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Vickie Gates
Vickie Gates won the Ms. International three years running, from 1999 to 2001, and was runner-up at the Ms. Olympia in 1999. Her full name is Ondrea Victoria Gates.
Known for
Three consecutive Ms. International titles is the record, with runner-up finishes there in 1997 and thirds in 1996 and 2002. Six years in the top three of the Arnold's own women's contest.
At the Olympia she was third in 1998, second in 1999 and third again in 2002.
Early career
She turned professional by winning the middleweight classes at both the 1993 Nationals and the 1993 USA Championships, and had been competing since 1986.
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 Vickie Gates.
Ms. Olympia
5Appearances
0Titles
3Top 3
Arnold Classic
2Appearances
2Titles
2Top 3
All contests on record
21Contests
5Wins
11Top 3
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Vickie Gates, 21 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 Vickie Gates competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #4 | Yaxeni Oriquen |
| 2002 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #3 | Yaxeni Oriquen |
| 2002 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #3 | Lenda Murray |
| 2001 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #1 | Winner |
| 2000 | Arnold Classic | Women's Bodybuilding (Ms. International) | #1 | Winner |
| 2000 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #1 | Winner |
| 1999 | Arnold Classic | Women's Bodybuilding (Ms. International) | #1 | Winner |
| 1999 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #1 | Winner |
| 1999 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #2 | Kim Chizevsky |
| 1998 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #5 | Yolanda Hughes |
| 1998 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #3 | Kim Chizevsky |
| 1997 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #2 | Yolanda Hughes |
| 1997 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #5 | Kim Chizevsky |
| 1996 | Grand Prix Prague | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #4 | Laura Binetti |
| 1996 | Grand Prix Slovakia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #4 | Zuzanna Korinkova |
| 1996 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #3 | Kim Chizevsky |
| 1996 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #5 | Kim Chizevsky |
| 1995 | Jan Tana Pro Classic | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #8 | Michelle Ralabate |
| 1995 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #11 | Laura Creavalle |
| 1994 | Grand Prix Prague | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #5 | – |
| 1994 | Jan Tana Pro Classic | Women's Bodybuilding (Open) | #4 | Sue Price |
Showing 15 of 21 professional results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Vickie Gates 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 1999 (2 wins)
Measured against Vickie Gates’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1994
- Olympia Debut
- 1996
- First Win
- 1999
- Last Contest
- 2003
Vickie Gates at the Olympia, year by year
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1997 | 5 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1998 | 3 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1999 | 2 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 2002 | 3 | Women's Bodybuilding (heavyweight class) |
Data updated
Amateur and other shows not counted above
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Nationals | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #1 |
| 1993 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #1 |
| 1992 | Nationals | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #3 |
| 1991 | Junior USA | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #3 |
| 1991 | North American Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Heavyweight) | #9 |
| 1990 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #10 |
| 1989 | Junior USA | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #3 |
| 1989 | North American Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Middleweight) | #2 |
| 1986 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding (Light Heavyweight) | #4 |
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Legacy
Gates held the Ms. International through the years Lenda Murray was away from the Olympia and Kim Chizevsky was winning it, which is a hard place to build a reputation. Three straight titles is what she built anyway.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 3 meetings, Lenda Murray finished ahead of Vickie Gates 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.
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Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1986 to 2003.
Her full name is carried from the biography previously held in our corpus.
Some contests appear twice in the table below because one result was recorded under two division labels. They are single contests.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 21 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.