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Head-to-head record

Bev Francis vs Juliette Bergmann

Bev Francis
Bev Francis
3 4
7 head-to-head meetings
Juliette Bergmann
Juliette Bergmann
Athlete A
Bev Francis
Bev Francis
Australia Women's Bodybuilding
Athlete B
Juliette Bergmann
Juliette Bergmann
Netherlands Women's Bodybuilding
7 Shared Contests
1986 First Meeting
1988 Last Meeting
Query-derived Compiled from contest-result records and cached for performance; community flags are reviewed before any change. Updated September 1, 2026

Bev Francis vs Juliette Bergmann head-to-head record and every decided contest between them on record.

Meetings
7
Bev Francis
3 ahead
Juliette Bergmann
4 ahead
Span
1986–1988
At the Olympia
Bev Francis 2–1 Juliette Bergmann in 3

In 7 meetings, Juliette Bergmann finished ahead of Bev Francis 4 times to 3, including 3 at the Ms. Olympia.

Every contest Bev Francis and Juliette Bergmann both entered

Year Contest Division Bev Francis Juliette Bergmann Winner
1988 Ms. Olympia Women's Bodybuilding #3 #13 Bev Francis
1987 World Pro Championships Women's Bodybuilding #1 #7 Bev Francis
1987 Ms. Olympia Women's Bodybuilding #3 #9 Bev Francis
1986 Ms International Women's Bodybuilding #3 #2 Juliette Bergmann
1986 Gran Prix Los Angeles Women's Bodybuilding #3 #2 Juliette Bergmann
1986 Los Angeles Pro Championships Women's Bodybuilding #3 #2 Juliette Bergmann
1986 Ms. Olympia Women's Bodybuilding #10 #6 Juliette Bergmann

How this is counted: a meeting is one contest where both athletes were judged in the same division. Standing on the same stage in different divisions is not a meeting, because the two were never scored against each other. Bev Francis and Juliette Bergmann meet that test 7 times. For scale, this database holds 11 recorded results for Bev Francis and 21 for Juliette Bergmann across their full careers. Counted from the contest record as of September 1, 2026.

Bev Francis and Juliette Bergmann at their peak

Peak window = the athlete's Olympia-title years where available, otherwise their best-placement years. Derived from recorded contest results. It is a span of years, not a rating.

Bev Francis reached her competitive peak from 1986 to 1988, her strongest placement years on record (14% win rate across 7 contests in the window).

Juliette Bergmann reached her competitive peak from 2001 to 2001, winning 1 Olympia title in Women's Bodybuilding.

Score these two prime windows against each other on Prime vs Prime, where Olympia dominance is weighted for the size of the field each athlete beat.

Bev Francis and Juliette Bergmann, beyond the scoreline

The part of this matchup a results table cannot hold, written by hand rather than derived from the record.

Bev Francis

Six Olympia appearances between 1986 and 1991, with third in 1987, 1988 and 1989 and second in 1990 and 1991. She won the World Pro Championships in 1987.

Her physique was more muscular than the judging of the time was willing to reward, and the argument about whether it should have been is one of the defining disputes in the division's history. She finished second twice and never won it.

Juliette Bergmann

The comeback is the record. She competed at the Olympia in 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1988 with a best of sixth, then disappeared from our results entirely until 2001, when she returned and won it.

She won the lightweight class at the 2002 Olympia as well, and before the gap had taken the World Amateur Championships and the European Championships lightweight titles in 1985 and the World Pro Championships in 1986.

Attribute Tug-of-War

Each bar splits a metric by each athlete's share of their combined total. A centered bar means they are level.

Career Overlap Timeline

Each bar runs from an athlete's first recorded contest to their last, so the stretch where the two bars cross is the period both were competing. The marks on the bars are the years they met in the same division, one mark per year however many times they met in it. Careers that never cross can still be read against each other on career totals; they just cannot produce a head-to-head record.

Shared Contest

Career Stats Comparison

These are career-long figures, drawn from the results we hold for each athlete rather than only the contests the two shared, which is why a pair who never met still has something to compare. Where the two differ, the row marks the stronger figure: the higher number, except on Career Start and Best Placement, where the lower one is better and takes the mark. A row the two are level on marks neither.

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Method

This page counts finishing positions

Every figure here comes from where each athlete placed in the contest record. Judging sheets and point spreads are not in the database, so a comparison tells you who finished higher on the night. It does not tell you by how much, or how close the call was.

  • A head-to-head result needs both athletes at the same contest in the same division. Two athletes on the same stage in different divisions were never judged against each other, so that show is not counted as a meeting.
  • Only contests both athletes actually entered can be settled here. Careers that never overlapped produce a side-by-side record and no head-to-head, because there is nothing to count.
  • Career totals cover the results we hold. A missing regional or amateur show lowers a total; it never invents one.
  • A shared placement is left as a tie. It is reported separately rather than split between the two athletes.