Women's Bodybuilding Division
How long this division has run, and how much of it this page holds on record.
Women's Bodybuilding Division is a competitive bodybuilding division sanctioned by the IFBB Professional League. Competitors are judged on the total package, meaning a balance of size, symmetry and muscularity across seven mandatory poses that do not include most muscular. 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. Women's Bodybuilding has been contested at the Arnold Classic in 16 years on record.
What the judges reward is transcribed from NPC Worldwide Rules, accessed .
Women's Bodybuilding 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.
Ms. Olympia champion
The most recent Ms. Olympia champion on record in Women's Bodybuilding is Andrea Shaw, who won the 2025 title.
Rules & weight classes
What the published rule page states for Women's Bodybuilding, transcribed rather than summarised. Where that page specifies nothing, this card says so instead of filling the gap.
- Attire
- A two-piece solid, non-distracting cloth bikini with plain fastenings and no padding or advertising. The suit must reveal the abdominal and lower-back muscles; no footwear is worn during judging.
- Posing
- Seven mandatory poses. Judging presentation is up to 60 seconds; the finals routine is up to three minutes, followed by a 60-second posedown.
- Judging
- Quarter turns, mandatory poses, and callouts. Judging counts 100%; finals callouts may replace the judging score as confirmation.
The IFBB Professional League publishes no goal and weight cap for this division, so we do not state one.
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.
- 1Iris KyleUnited States10Olympias
- 2Lenda MurrayUnited States8Olympias
- 3Andrea ShawUnited States6Olympias
- 4Cory EversonUnited States6Olympias
- 5Kim ChizevskyUnited States4Olympias
- 6Rachel McLishUnited States2Olympias
- 7Yaxeni OriquenVenezuela1Olympia
- 8Carla DunlapUnited States1Olympia
- 9Valentina ChepigaUkraine1Olympia
- 10Juliette BergmannNetherlands1Olympia
Famous Women's Bodybuilding athletes
Each athlete here has a full article on Fitness Volt, so the name links to that article rather than to a database page. The order is fixed: Olympia champions first, most titles first, then the highest-ranked athletes in the ranking order used in the list above, then recent winners at contests tagged Olympia, Arnold or major tier in the division's latest results on record.
Ms. Olympia champions by year
Every athlete on record as Ms. 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: 10 years inside it hold no Arnold Classic champion on record in this division.
Women's Bodybuilding Division athletes qualified for the 2026 Ms. Olympia
12 athletes have qualified for the 2026 Olympia in this division.
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 Ms. 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 |
|---|---|
| Desunka Dawson | Won the 2025 IFBB Titans Grand Prix Pro |
| Andrea Shaw | Won the 2026 Rising Phoenix & Arizona Pro |
| Ashley Lynnette Jones | Won the 2025 Steve Karr Las Vegas Pro |
| Leyvina Barros | Placed 3rd at the 2025 Ms. Olympia |
| Anastasia Korableva | Won the 2025 IFBB Romania Muscle Fest Pro |
| Barbara De Freitas Moojen | Won the 2026 Triple O Dynasty Pro |
| Nadia Capotosto | Won the 2026 Toronto Pro Supershow |
| Martina Lopez | Won the 2026 Empro Classic Spain Pro |
| Alcione Santos Barreto | Won the 2026 Mr Big Evolution Portugal Pro |
| Paula Ranta | Won the 2026 Tampa Pro |
| Alide Opre | Won the 2026 Lenda Murray ATL Pro Supershow |
| Megan Morrison | – |
Source: the IFBB Professional League's qualified athletes page. The League's qualifying window for this season runs September 15, 2025 - August 30, 2026. Wins are read from contest results we hold up to August 29, 2026, so a win at a show more recent than that is not reflected in the route column.
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 | 2026 Triple O Dynasty Pro | Barbara De Freitas Moojen | Brazil |
| 2026 | 2026 Puerto Rico Pro | Ann Gruber | United States |
| 2026 | 2026 Toronto Pro Supershow | Branka Njegovec | Croatia |
| 2026 | 2026 Empro Classic Spain Pro | Martina Lopez | Spain |
| 2026 | 2026 Chicago Pro | Shea Menchaca | United States |
| 2026 | 2026 Mr Big Evolution Portugal Pro | Alcione Santos Barreto | Brazil |
| 2026 | 2026 Tampa Pro | Ellen Bello | United States |
| 2026 | 2026 Lenda Murray ATL Pro Supershow | Alida Opre | Hungary |
| 2026 | 2026 Rising Phoenix & Arizona Pro | Andrea Shaw | United States |
| 2026 | 2026 Alina Popa Classic Pro | Anastasia Korableva | Romania |
Shows that run this division
The 12 longest-running of 39 shows that have run this division in two or more years. Another 42 contests hold a single recorded edition.
| Show | Editions | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Ms. Olympia | 41 | 1980–2025 |
| Arnold Classic | 18 | 1989–2015 |
| Tampa Pro | 14 | 2013–2026 |
| Toronto Pro Supershow Filed in the archive under toronto-pro and toronto-pro-supershow. | 14 | 2011–2026 |
| Jan Tana Pro Classic | 14 | 1991–2007 |
| Rising Phoenix & Arizona Pro | 11 | 2016–2026 |
| World Pro Championships | 11 | 1979–1999 |
| New York Pro Filed in the archive under new-york-pro and new-york-pro-championships. | 10 | 2005–2025 |
| Night of Champions | 10 | 1981–2004 |
| Omaha Pro | 9 | 2014–2022 |
| Romania Muscle Fest Pro/Am | 8 | 2018–2025 |
| Pittsburgh Pro Masters Championships | 8 | 2014–2021 |
How shows are grouped and counted
These counts are drawn from every recorded result in this division, amateur and professional alike, because that is the whole of what the contest archive holds. 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 36 of the 11,140 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 Women's Bodybuilding 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.
Women's Bodybuilding Division rules: common questions
What poses are required in Women's Bodybuilding?
Front double biceps, front lat spread, side chest, back double biceps, back lat spread, side triceps, and abdominals and thighs.
How long is the Women's Bodybuilding finals routine?
The finals routine is limited to three minutes.
What suit is required in Women's Bodybuilding?
A two-piece solid cloth bikini with plain fastenings, no padding, and enough cut to reveal the abdominal and lower-back muscles.
Does Women's Bodybuilding have a published weight cap?
No. The IFBB Professional League rule page publishes no weight cap for Women's Bodybuilding, so we do not state one. The only height and weight tables it publishes belong to Classic Physique and Men's Physique.
Our latest reporting on Women's Bodybuilding
- 2026 Empro Classic Spain Pro Results – William Bonac Wins Men’s Bodybuilding
- Women’s Bodybuilder and ‘Scary Movie’ Star Jayne Trcka Passes Away at 62
- 2025 Romania Muscle Fest Pro Results: Andrew Jacked Dominates in Bucharest
- 2025 Steve Karr Las Vegas Pro Results — Ethan Gohari and Ashley Lynnette Jones Earn Olympia Qualifications
- Andrea Shaw Captures Historic Sixth Consecutive Ms. Olympia Title
- 2025 Ms. Olympia Results & Prize Money — Andrea Shaw Wins 6th Title
About this record
This page settles who has won in Women's Bodybuilding, 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: 11,141 athletes, 28,980 results and 2,682 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.
- The browse list on this page holds fewer athletes than the Athletes figure in the header. Rows identified as non-athletes, rows kept as name-collision placeholders, and rows with an open data issue are held back from search, while their results still count toward the totals in the header above.