Skip to main content
Head-to-head record

Mike Sommerfeld vs Niall Darwen

Mike Sommerfeld
Mike Sommerfeld
2 1
3 head-to-head meetings
Niall Darwen
Niall Darwen
Athlete A
Mike Sommerfeld
Mike Sommerfeld
Germany Men's Classic Physique
Athlete B
Niall Darwen
Niall Darwen
United Kingdom Men's Classic Physique
3 Shared Contests
2024 First Meeting
2026 Last Meeting
Query-derived Compiled from contest-result records and cached for performance; community flags are reviewed before any change. Updated October 12, 2026

Mike Sommerfeld vs Niall Darwen head-to-head record and every decided contest between them on record.

Our full story on Mike Sommerfeld: Mike Sommerfeld – Height, Weight, Biography, and Career Highlights.

Meetings
3
Mike Sommerfeld
2 ahead
Niall Darwen
1 ahead
Span
2024–2026
At the Olympia
Mike Sommerfeld 2–1 Niall Darwen in 3

In 3 meetings, Mike Sommerfeld finished ahead of Niall Darwen 2 times to 1, including 3 at the Classic Physique Olympia.

Every contest Mike Sommerfeld and Niall Darwen both entered

Year Contest Division Mike Sommerfeld Niall Darwen Winner
2026 Joe Weider’s OLYMPIA Fitness & Performance Weekend Men's Classic Physique #2 #1 Niall Darwen
2025 Mr. Olympia Men's Classic Physique #2 #5 Mike Sommerfeld
2024 Mr. Olympia Men's Classic Physique #2 #11 Mike Sommerfeld

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. Mike Sommerfeld and Niall Darwen meet that test 3 times. For scale, this database holds 18 professional results for Mike Sommerfeld and 7 for Niall Darwen across their full careers. Counted from the contest record as of October 12, 2026.

Mike Sommerfeld and Niall Darwen 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.

Mike Sommerfeld reached his competitive peak from 2012 to 2014, one of his strongest stretches (33% win rate across 3 contests in the window).

Niall Darwen reached his competitive peak from 2026 to 2026, winning 1 Olympia title in Men's Classic Physique.

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.

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.

Share This Comparison

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 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.