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Yolanda Hughes is a Women's Bodybuilding competitor from the United States.
4 career wins
Yolanda Hughes
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Yolanda Hughes, a bodybuilder from the United States, was born on October 30, 1963 and is 62 years old.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 24
- Wins
- 4
- Win Rate
- 16.7%
- Career
- 1984–1999
- Age
- 62
- Division
- Women's Bodybuilding
- Country
- United States
- Verified
- Sources
- 5
Yolanda Hughes won the Ms. International in 1997 and 1998 and was runner-up at the Ms. Olympia in 1998. She won the World Amateur Championships heavyweight class in 1992.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 24 recorded 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.
Every season on record
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1984
- First Win
- 1988
- Olympia Debut
- 1992
- Last Contest
- 1999
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 8 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1993 | 11 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1994 | 8 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1995 | 11 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1997 | 3 | Women's Bodybuilding |
| 1998 | 2 | Women's Bodybuilding |
Data updated
Known for
Back-to-back Ms. International titles in 1997 and 1998, with third places there in 1994 and 1999. Her Olympia record turned in the same period: eighth and eleventh through the mid-nineties, then third in 1997 and second in 1998.
Early career
Her record opens in 1984 and she spent most of a decade at national level, runner-up at the USA Championships in 1991 and third at the Nationals in 1990 and 1991, before the World Amateur title in 1992.
Her full name in our corpus is Yolanda Hughes-Heying.
Championship record
Championship appearances
Counted from the same results table below: an appearance is one recorded placing at that series, a title is a first place, and Top 3 counts first, second and third together. The last row is every contest on record for Yolanda Hughes, amateur shows included.
Ms. Olympia
6Appearances
0Titles
2Top 3
All contests on record
24Contests
4Wins
14Top 3
All results
Every contest result on record for Yolanda Hughes, 24 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 Yolanda Hughes competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
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| 1999 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding | #3 | Vickie Gates |
| 1998 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1998 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #2 | Kim Chizevsky |
| 1997 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1997 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #3 | Kim Chizevsky |
| 1996 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding | #4 | Kim Chizevsky |
| 1995 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #11 | Lenda Murray |
| 1994 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding | #3 | Laura Creavalle |
| 1994 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #8 | Lenda Murray |
| 1993 | Ms International | Women's Bodybuilding | #5 | Kim Chizevsky |
| 1993 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #11 | Lenda Murray |
| 1992 | Ms. Olympia | Women's Bodybuilding | #8 | Lenda Murray |
| 1992 | World Amateur Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1991 | Nationals | Women's Bodybuilding | #3 | Kim King |
| 1991 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #2 | Denise Rutkowski |
| 1991 | World Amateur Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #2 | – |
| 1990 | Nationals | Women's Bodybuilding | #3 | Nikki Fuller |
| 1990 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #4 | Shelley Beattie |
| 1989 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #5 | Debbie McKnight |
| 1988 | Los Angeles Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #2 | Raye Hollitt |
| 1988 | Orange County (CA) Classic | Women's Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1988 | USA Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #6 | Dorothy Herndon |
| 1984 | Ironmaiden | Women's Bodybuilding | #2 | Loraine Gaurnieri |
| 1984 | Western America Championships | Women's Bodybuilding | #4 | Rosanne Parsons |
Showing 15 of 24 recorded results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Yolanda Hughes 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.
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Legacy
Hughes reached the top of the division in the years Kim Chizevsky was winning four straight Olympias. Two Ms. International titles is what was available to be won, and she won them both.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1984 to 1999.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 5 meetings, Lenda Murray finished ahead of Yolanda Hughes 5 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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