Best Bodybuilders by Division and Decade
One ranking for every division in every decade it was contested, ordered by the number of contests each athlete won inside that ten-year span.
Each link opens a leaderboard for one division in one decade: the athletes who won the most contests in that division during those ten years, with the contests they entered and the years they were active. Best here means won most often, counted from documented results, not judged or voted.
Men's Open Bodybuilding
Men's 212 Bodybuilding
Men's Classic Physique
Men's Physique
Men's Wheelchair
Women's Bodybuilding
Women's Fitness
Women's Figure
Women's Bikini
Women's Physique
Women's Wellness
Women's Fit Model
How These Rankings Work
Each page ranks athletes by how many contests they won in one division during one decade, with the number of contests entered used to separate athletes level on wins.
The archive behind them spans pro and amateur shows, from regional events to the Arnold Classic and the Olympia stage, and every show counts once regardless of its size. That makes these rankings a measure of how often an athlete won, which is not the same as which titles they held. The Olympia winners pages hold the titles.
A division only appears against decades in which it existed, which is why Classic Physique starts in the 2010s and Wellness in the 2020s rather than every division showing the same seven links.
A decade still in progress is ranked on the results recorded so far, and each of those pages says so.