Men's Physique Division
How long this division has run, and how much of it this page holds on record.
Men's Physique Division is a competitive bodybuilding division sanctioned by the IFBB Professional League. Competitors are judged on proper shape and symmetry combined with muscularity and overall condition, plus stage presence and poise, with extreme muscularity marked down. This page is our record of that division: the champions year by year, the shows that run it, and every athlete we hold a result for. Men's Physique has been contested at the Arnold Classic in 7 years on record, and Brandon Hendrickson and Erin Banks share the most Arnold Classic wins in it, with 2 each.
What the judges reward is transcribed from NPC Worldwide Rules, accessed .
Men's Physique Division at a glance
How deep this division runs and how a career in it actually looks. Avg career and contests per athlete cover only athletes with two or more contests, because someone who entered once and never returned says nothing about how long a career lasts. Avg competitors per contest is all-time.
Men's Physique Olympia champion
The most recent Men's Physique Olympia champion on record in Men's Physique is Ryan Terry, who won the 2026 title.
Rules & weight classes
What the published rule page states for Men's Physique, transcribed rather than summarised. Where that page specifies nothing, this card says so instead of filling the gap.
- Attire
- Board shorts worn one inch below the navel and ending two inches above the kneecap; shirtless and barefoot. Spandex and logos other than a manufacturer logo are prohibited.
- Posing
- Front and back turns, an individual walk, and callouts. The published Pro rule page does not state a time limit.
- Judging
- Front and back turns with callouts. Judging counts 100%; finals callouts may replace the judging score as confirmation.
- Weight cap
- Height-specific maximum weights apply. See the published table below.
The IFBB Professional League publishes no goal for this division, so we do not state one.
| Height | Published height | Maximum weight |
|---|---|---|
| Up to and including 5'4" | 162.6 cm | 167 lb / 75.7 kg |
| Up to and including 5'5" | 165.1 cm | 172 lb / 78.0 kg |
| Up to and including 5'6" | 167.6 cm | 177 lb / 80.3 kg |
| Up to and including 5'7" | 170.2 cm | 182 lb / 82.6 kg |
| Up to and including 5'8" | 172.7 cm | 187 lb / 84.8 kg |
| Up to and including 5'9" | 175.3 cm | 194 lb / 88.0 kg |
| Up to and including 5'10" | 177.8 cm | 202 lb / 91.6 kg |
| Up to and including 5'11" | 180.3 cm | 209 lb / 94.8 kg |
| Up to and including 6'0" | 182.9 cm | 217 lb / 98.4 kg |
| Up to and including 6'1" | 185.4 cm | 224 lb / 101.6 kg |
| Up to and including 6'2" | 188.0 cm | 232 lb / 105.2 kg |
| Up to and including 6'3" | 190.5 cm | 239 lb / 108.4 kg |
| Up to and including 6'4" | 193.0 cm | 246 lb / 111.6 kg |
| Up to and including 6'5" | 195.6 cm | 253 lb / 114.8 kg |
| Up to and including 6'6" | 198.1 cm | 260 lb / 117.9 kg |
| Up to and including 6'7" | 200.7 cm | 267 lb / 121.1 kg |
| Over 6'7" | 200.7 as published cm | 274 lb / 124.3 kg |
Source: IFBB Professional League Rules. Version and access date: .
Most titles in this division
Ranked by Olympia titles, then wins at other professional shows, then division wins.
- 1Ryan TerryUnited Kingdom4Olympias
- 2Jeremy BuendiaUnited States4Olympias
- 3Brandon HendricksonUnited States3Olympias
- 4Erin BanksUnited States1Olympia
- 5Raymont EdmondsUnited States1Olympia
- 6Mark AnthonyUnited States1Olympia
- 7Andre FergusonUnited States21Pro wins
- 8Kyron HoldenUnited States17Pro wins
- 9George BrownUnited States16Pro wins
- 10Sidy PouyeSpain13Pro wins
Men's Physique Olympia champions by year
Every athlete on record as Men's Physique Olympia champion in this division, most recent first. One chip per year, so an athlete who won it more than once appears once for each title, and a name links to that athlete's page where we hold one.
Arnold Classic champion by year
These are the champions of the Arnold Classic in Columbus. Each year links to that edition's results in this division. The run is not continuous: no Arnold Classic champion is on record in this division for 2017 to 2021.
Regional Arnold editions
The Arnold Classic has also run pro editions outside Columbus. Those are separate contests, so their winners are listed here rather than in the run above, and they are not counted as Arnold Classic titles.
| Year | Edition | Champion | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Arnold Classic UK | Vitor Chaves | Brazil |
| 2022 | Arnold Classic UK | Ali Bilal | Afghanistan |
| 2021 | Arnold Classic UK | Ryan Terry | United Kingdom |
Men's Physique Division athletes qualified for the 2027 Men's Physique Olympia
4 qualified for the 2027 Olympia. Another 37 are still in the points race, where the top 20 qualify.
The names are the League's own list. Beside each one is the route our own contest record can evidence: a win in this division inside the qualifying window, a placing in the top three at the previous Men's Physique Olympia, or a past Olympia title. Where our record evidences none of those, the route is left blank rather than guessed at.
Names are spelled the way the League lists them, which is not always the way our own archive records the same athlete elsewhere on this page.
| Athlete | How they qualified |
|---|---|
| Mehdi Kabbadj | – |
| Ryan Terry | Won the 2026 Men's Physique Olympia |
| Ali Bilal | Placed 2nd at the 2026 Men's Physique Olympia |
| Kyron Holden | Placed 3rd at the 2026 Men's Physique Olympia |
Source: the IFBB Professional League's qualified athletes page. The League's qualifying window for this season runs August 31, 2026 - September 12, 2027. Wins are read from contest results we hold up to September 25, 2026, so a win at a show more recent than that is not reflected in the route column.
Major Event Winners
Winners from the most recent results in this division, at contests the archive files as an Olympia, an Arnold or a top-tier show. One card per athlete, so this is who has been winning lately rather than the whole roll of honour.
Recent Results
The most recent contests on record in this division and who won each. One row per contest, newest first.
| Year | Contest | Winner | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | IFBB Musclecontest Japan Pro | Jinbo Li | China |
| 2026 | Arnold Classic | Brandon Hendrickson | United States |
| 2026 | Arnold Classic United Kingdom | Vitor Chaves | Brazil |
| 2026 | 2026 Taiwan Pro | Farouq Ishimoto | Japan |
| 2026 | 2026 Charlotte Pro | Luther Bradford | United States |
| 2026 | 2026 Tri-City Pro | Kevin Reeder | United States |
| 2026 | 2026 Wasatch Warrior Pro | Aundre Benson | United States |
| 2026 | 2026 Puerto Rico Pro | Wayne Bullock | United States |
| 2026 | 2026 Musclecontest Nordeste Pro | Vincius Mateus Viera Lima | Brazil |
| 2026 | 2026 Huanji China Pro | Jinbo Li | China |
Shows that run this division
The 12 longest-running of 130 shows that have run this division in two or more years. Another 128 contests hold a single recorded edition.
| Show | Editions | Years |
|---|---|---|
| New York Pro | 15 | 2012–2026 |
| Men's Physique Olympia | 14 | 2013–2026 |
| Tampa Pro | 14 | 2013–2026 |
| Mile High Pro | 12 | 2014–2026 |
| Toronto Pro Supershow | 12 | 2013–2026 |
| Pittsburgh Pro | 12 | 2013–2025 |
| San Antonio Pro | 10 | 2016–2026 |
| Vancouver Pro | 9 | 2015–2025 |
| Legion Sports Fest Pro | 8 | 2018–2026 |
| Romania Muscle Fest Pro/Am | 8 | 2018–2025 |
| Titans Grand Prix | 8 | 2013–2023 |
| Northern California Pro Filed in the archive under northern-california-pro and sacramento-pro. | 8 | 2013–2021 |
How shows are grouped and counted
These counts are drawn from every recorded result in this division across every professional show the contest archive holds, whatever the sanctioning body. The list of shows below is the one narrower set: it counts only IFBB Professional League and IFBB contests, and it counts recurring shows rather than individual contests, so it is not a subset of the figures here.
Shows are grouped by contest series, not by contest name, so one event the sources spell several ways counts as one run. Three pairs of series the archive holds twice are merged into a single show, and the Olympia weekend is read as one event rather than as separate men's, women's and fitness listings; any merged row names the series it was built from. A show counts as professional when its federation is the IFBB Professional League or the IFBB, and two series the records mislabel as professional are excluded by name because no column separates them. Contests with at least two recorded editions in this division are listed, and single-edition entries are counted separately. A span reports what the archive holds, and nothing about when the division was created.
Height and weight on record
We hold a height and a weight for 64 of the 4,437 athletes in this division. Everything below describes that measured group and nobody else.
Those measurements were never collected as a sample. They exist for the athletes who have been written about, which loads the group heavily toward champions and long careers, so this is the shape of the athletes we have measured rather than a portrait of the division as a whole.
Rounded to whole centimetres and whole kilograms. The source mixes metric values with inch and pound conversions, so a decimal place here would be a conversion artefact rather than a measurement. The range is the middle 80% of the athletes we hold measurements for, not the full span. Weights are the bodyweight recorded on an athlete's profile rather than a contest-day weigh-in, and the archive holds no weigh-in figure at all, so in a division that competes under a weight limit these can read above it.
Browse Men's Physique Athletes
Search the athletes in this division by name, or change the order. Results and Wins on each card are career totals across every division an athlete has entered, not their record in this division, and the default order is most career wins first.
Men's Physique Division rules: common questions
What poses are used in Men's Physique?
Competitors perform front and back turns during individual presentation and callouts.
What must Men's Physique competitors wear?
Board shorts must sit one inch below the navel, end two inches above the kneecap, and taper toward the knee.
Does Men's Physique have a weight cap?
Yes. The maximum weight depends on measured height, as shown in the official table on this page.
How is Men's Physique scored?
Judging counts 100%. Finals callouts may be scored as confirmation and replace the judging score.
Our latest reporting on Men's Physique
- Ali Bilal on His Third Straight Men’s Physique Olympia Silver: ‘Being Second in the World Is Not Bad’
- Ryan Terry Herniated a Disc Seven Weeks Before the 2026 Olympia. He Won a Record-Tying Fourth Title Anyway
- 2026 Olympia Men’s Physique Results & Prize Money — Ryan Terry Wins 4th Title
- 2026 Olympia Men’s Physique Prejudging Report
- 3x Men’s Physique Olympia Ryan Terry Shares His 6 Best Leg Exercises
- Ryan Terry Reveals Injury Nearly Ended His 2026 Olympia Prep, Shares Shredded Physique Update
About this record
This page settles who has won in Men's Physique, in which year, and how deep the record goes. Where there is something to say about how it differs from the divisions beside it, this page says it. It does not judge a physique.
The rules and weight classes above are transcribed from a published rule page, which that section names and dates. They are not inferred from the division name, and where that page specifies nothing this page prints the absence instead of filling it.
- Every figure on this page is drawn from one set of records: 2,964 athletes, 15,079 results and 885 contests.
- Results belong to this division by division type, the authoritative identifier on the contest record, not by matching the division's name. Divisions that have no type fall back to their recorded names.
- Olympia titles count a contest flagged as an Olympia with an overall winner, one title per year.
- Away from the Olympia, the winner of a contest is the athlete placed first inside this division on that contest's result row. An overall placing across divisions is never counted as a win outside the Olympia.
- The top-athlete order is a fixed ranking: Olympia titles first, then major and pro show wins, then wins inside this division. Nothing on the list is hand-placed.
- Athlete and result counts are all-time and include amateur competition, so they run ahead of the pro-only record.