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Head-to-head record

Iris Kyle vs Vickie Gates

Iris Kyle
Iris Kyle
2 4
6 head-to-head meetings
Vickie Gates
Vickie Gates
Athlete A
Iris Kyle
Iris Kyle
United States Women's Bodybuilding
Athlete B
Vickie Gates
Vickie Gates
United States Women's Bodybuilding
6 Shared Contests
1999 First Meeting
2002 Last Meeting
Query-derived Compiled from contest-result records and cached for performance; community flags are reviewed before any change. Updated September 21, 2026

Iris Kyle vs Vickie Gates head-to-head record and every decided contest between them on record.

Our full story on Iris Kyle: Iris Kyle: The Road To 10 Ms. Olympia Titles And Becoming The Most Successful Female Bodybuilder Of All Time.

Meetings
6
Iris Kyle
2 ahead
Vickie Gates
4 ahead
Span
1999–2002
At the Olympia
Iris Kyle 1–1 Vickie Gates in 2

In 6 meetings, Vickie Gates finished ahead of Iris Kyle 4 times to 2, including 2 at the Ms. Olympia.

Every contest Iris Kyle and Vickie Gates both entered

Year Contest Division Iris Kyle Vickie Gates Winner
2002 Ms International Women's Bodybuilding #2 #3 Iris Kyle
2002 Ms. Olympia Women's Bodybuilding #2 #3 Iris Kyle
2001 Ms International Women's Bodybuilding #2 #1 Vickie Gates
2000 Ms International Women's Bodybuilding #3 #1 Vickie Gates
1999 Ms International Women's Bodybuilding #15 #1 Vickie Gates
1999 Ms. Olympia Women's Bodybuilding #4 #2 Vickie Gates

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. Iris Kyle and Vickie Gates meet that test 6 times. For scale, this database holds 33 recorded results for Iris Kyle and 30 for Vickie Gates across their full careers. Counted from the contest record as of September 21, 2026.

Iris Kyle and Vickie Gates 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.

Iris Kyle reached her competitive peak from 2004 to 2014 (11 years), winning 10 Olympia titles in Women's Bodybuilding.

Vickie Gates reached her competitive peak from 1992 to 1994, one of her strongest stretches (40% win rate across 5 contests in the window).

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.

Vickie Gates, beyond the scoreline

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

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.

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.