Women's Figure Division
How long this division has run, and how much of it this page holds on record.
Women's Figure Division is a competitive bodybuilding division sanctioned by the IFBB Professional League. Competitors are judged on a small degree of muscularity with separation but no visible striations, toned muscle with shapely lines and overall firmness without being excessively lean, and overall stage presentation. 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 Figure has been contested at the Arnold Classic in 10 years on record, and Iris Kyle, Candice Lewis-Carter and Cydney Gillon share the most Arnold Classic wins in it, with 2 each.
What the judges reward is transcribed from NPC Worldwide Rules, accessed .
Women's Figure 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.
Figure Olympia champion
The most recent Figure Olympia champion on record in Women's Figure is Rhea Gayle, who won the 2025 title.
Rules & weight classes
What the published rule page states for Women's Figure, transcribed rather than summarised. Where that page specifies nothing, this card says so instead of filling the gap.
- Attire
- A two-piece bikini with at least half of the buttocks covered; G-strings are prohibited. Competitors wear high heels.
- Posing
- Four quarter turns during individual presentation and callouts. The published Pro rule page does not state a time limit.
- Judging
- Four quarter turns 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.
- 1Cydney GillonUnited States8Olympias
- 2Nicole WilkinsUnited States4Olympias
- 3Davana MedinaUnited States3Olympias
- 4Jenny LynnUnited States2Olympias
- 5Erin SternUnited States2Olympias
- 6Latorya Neisha WattsUnited States2Olympias
- 7Rhea GayleUnited Kingdom1Olympia
- 8Jennifer GatesUnited States1Olympia
- 9Jessica Reyes PadillaPuerto Rico31Pro wins
- 10Candice Lewis-CarterUnited States13Pro wins
Figure Olympia champions by year
Every athlete on record as Figure 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: 8 years inside it hold no Arnold Classic champion on record in this division.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Arnold Classic UK | Lola Montez | Canada |
| 2019 | Arnold Classic Australia | Jessica Reyes Padilla | Puerto Rico |
| 2018 | Arnold Classic Australia | Candice Lewis-Carter | United States |
| 2017 | Arnold Classic Australia | Candice Lewis-Carter | United States |
| 2017 | Arnold Classic South America | Latorya Neisha Watts | United States |
| 2016 | Arnold Classic Australia | Latorya Neisha Watts | United States |
| 2015 | Arnold Classic Australia | Camala Rodriguez | United States |
| 2012 | Arnold Classic Europe | Erin Stern | United States |
One earlier Arnold championship is on record in this division and is not counted anywhere on this page: Valentina Chepiga (2002). We date Women's Figure to 2003, so either that date or the filing of this result is wrong, and we do not assume which.
Women's Figure Division athletes qualified for the 2026 Figure Olympia
34 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 Figure 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 |
|---|---|
| Kristina Bodnariuk | Won the 2025 San Antonio Pro |
| Missy Truscott | Won the 2025 Sasquatch Pro |
| Nadine Claudia Huber | Won the 2025 IFBB Dominican Republic Pro |
| Tereza Linhartova | Won the 2025 IFBB AGP Pro |
| Katja Nowack | Won the 2025 Balkan Grand Prix Pro |
| Rhea Gayle | Won the 2025 Figure Olympia |
| Lola Montez | Placed 2nd at the 2025 Figure Olympia |
| Jessica Reyes Padilla | Won the 2025 Atlantic Coast Pro |
| Tessa Meetze | Won the 2025 Hurricane Pro |
| Lena Ramsteiner | Won the 2026 Texas Pro |
| Dorethane Agathina | Won the 2025 IFBB Europa Pro Championships |
| Denise Zwinger-Tynek | Won the 2025 IFBB Romania Muscle Fest Pro |
| Dekel Quant | – |
| Jennifer Zienert | Won the 2025 FIBO Pro Championships |
| Natalia Soltero | Won the 2026 Pittsburgh Power & Fitness Festival |
| Ashley Howells | Won the 2026 Tri-City Pro |
| Kristina Zafirova | Won the 2026 Austrian Oak |
| Jeanne Kassel | Won the 2026 New York Pro |
| Jaslynn Kyander | Won the 2026 Optimum Classic Pro |
| Anna Borin | Won the 2026 Zhanna Rotar Pro |
| Sarah Molina | Won the 2026 Toronto Pro Supershow |
| Eileen Aviles | Won the 2026 Body Be 1 Classic Pro |
| Vanessa Happle | Won the 2026 Empro Classic Spain Pro |
| Sara Pozzer | Won the 2026 Mr Big Evolution Portugal Pro |
| Brittne Pence | Won the 2026 Chicago Pro |
| Beatriz Almeida | Won the 2026 Musclecontest Brazil Pro |
| Xinyu Chen | – |
| Saionara Rebelo | Won the 2026 Gomeisa Ultimate Battle Pro |
| Tamera Barrett | Won the 2026 Tampa Pro |
| Sachiko Ito | Won the 2026 Japan Pro |
| Nicole Zenobia Graham | Won the 2026 Lenda Murray ATL Pro Supershow |
| Cherish Richardson | Won the 2026 Rising Phoenix & Arizona Pro |
| An Da Jeong | – |
| Lauren Calderoni | Won the 2026 Houston Pro |
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 | Lakeisha Roulhac | United States |
| 2026 | 2026 Tri-City Pro | Wendy Milhorn | United States |
| 2026 | 2026 FIBO Germany Pro | Kristina Zafirova | Slovenia |
| 2026 | 2026 Puerto Rico Pro | Jeanette Martin | United States |
| 2026 | 2026 Emerald Cup Masters Pro | Maggie Rivera | United States |
| 2026 | 2026 Battle of the Bodies Pro | Adrienne Matthews | United States |
| 2026 | 2026 New York Pro | Jeanne Kassel | Germany |
| 2026 | 2026 Pittsburgh Power & Fitness Festival | Natalia Soltero | Mexico |
| 2026 | 2026 Spanish Masters Pro | Paola Rita Tomasello | Italy |
| 2026 | 2026 Optimum Classic Pro | Jaslynn Kyander | United States |
Shows that run this division
The 12 longest-running of 96 shows that have run this division in two or more years. Another 110 contests hold a single recorded edition.
| Show | Editions | Years |
|---|---|---|
| New York Pro Filed in the archive under new-york-pro and new-york-pro-championships. | 23 | 2003–2026 |
| Figure Olympia | 23 | 2003–2025 |
| Pittsburgh Pro | 20 | 2003–2025 |
| Toronto Pro Supershow Filed in the archive under toronto-pro and toronto-pro-supershow. | 15 | 2005–2026 |
| Tampa Pro | 14 | 2013–2026 |
| Arnold Classic | 11 | 2002–2022 |
| Rising Phoenix & Arizona Pro | 10 | 2016–2026 |
| Hurricane Pro | 9 | 2016–2025 |
| California Pro | 9 | 2004–2012 |
| Romania Muscle Fest Pro/Am | 8 | 2018–2025 |
| San Antonio Pro | 8 | 2016–2025 |
| Vancouver Pro | 8 | 2015–2024 |
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 70 of the 27,048 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 Figure 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 Figure Division rules: common questions
What poses are used in Figure?
Competitors perform four quarter turns during individual presentation and callouts.
What must Figure competitors wear?
A two-piece bikini that covers at least half of the buttocks, with high heels. G-strings are prohibited.
How is Figure scored?
Judging counts 100%. Finals callouts may be scored as confirmation and replace the judging score.
Does Figure have a published weight cap?
No. Figure is judged on how the physique looks rather than what it weighs, and the published rule page sets no weight limit, so we do not state one.
Our latest reporting on Women's Figure
- 2026 Empro Classic Spain Pro Results – William Bonac Wins Men’s Bodybuilding
- 2025 Olympia Figure Results & Prize Money — Rhea Gayle Wins 1st Title
- 2025 Empro Classic Results – Sasan Heirati, Mustafa Yildiz, Ivi Escandar Among Champions in Spain
- 2024 Figure Olympia Results & Prize Money — Cydney Gillon Wins 8th Title and Retires From Sport
- 2024 Empro Classic Results — William Bonac Wins
- 2024 New York Pro Official Lineup of Athletes
About this record
This page settles who has won in Women's Figure, 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: 27,048 athletes, 77,973 results and 2,389 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.