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Athlete Rankings

8 boards built over the same corpus of documented results: counted career tallies, two composite scores, and one head to head.

8 Boards
108,836 Ranked on this board
12 Divisions
1934-2026 Seasons on record
Methodology visible

How these rankings are calculated

Rankings are built from documented contest results across pro and amateur bodybuilding, grouped by athlete and normalized by division.

Olympia title counts are deduped by year, and 212-era titles are treated as their own division rather than folded into Open bodybuilding.

A division filter includes any athlete with a documented result in that division, and each athlete's Olympia-title count is scoped to titles won in that same division only.

  • Primary source priority is NPC News Online for 2011+ IFBB Pro results, then IFBB Pro League, Arnold Sports, MuscleMemory, and Wikipedia for historical gaps.
  • Win rate requires a competition-history threshold so one-off winners do not outrank long-career athletes by accident.
  • Use the chips below to confirm the active metric, division filter, and current shareable view.
Methodology-based Figures are query-derived; the ranking order follows a fixed, published weighting of Olympia wins, then major and pro wins, then totals. Updated August 25, 2026

Ranking boards 8 boards, all divisions

Composite score

GOAT List

One published weighting of Olympia wins, major and pro wins, era strength, longevity and reach, scored per athlete.

Open GOAT List →

Composite score

Era-Adjusted GOAT

The same composite, rescaled against how deep the field actually was in the years an athlete competed.

Open Era-Adjusted GOAT →

Head to head

Prime vs Prime

Sets two athletes against each other at their best documented seasons instead of across their whole careers.

Open Prime vs Prime →

Most Wins All Divisions

Most Wins All Divisions 50 of 108,836 athletes
Rank Athlete Division Country Most Wins
6201 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6202 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6203 Women's Bodybuilding United States 2
6204 Other Divisions United States 2
6205 Women's Physique Canada 2
6206 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6207 Men's Physique United States 2
6208 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6209 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6210 Women's Figure United States 2
6211 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6212 Women's Figure United States 2
6213 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6214 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6215 Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 2
6216 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6217 Men's Open Bodybuilding Australia 2
6218 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6219 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6220 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6221 Women's Figure Italy 2
6222 Women's Wellness - 2
6223 Women's Figure United States 2
6224 Women's Figure United States 2
6225 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6226 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6227 Men's Physique Turkey 2
6228 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6229 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6230 Women's Figure United States 2
6231 Other Divisions United States 2
6232 Men's Wheelchair Brazil 2
6233 Men's Open Bodybuilding Argentina 2
6234 Women's Bodybuilding United States 2
6235 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6236 Women's Bodybuilding United States 2
6237 Women's Bikini United States 2
6238 Women's Figure United States 2
6239 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6240 Women's Figure United States 2
6241 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6242 Women's Bodybuilding United States 2
6243 Women's Figure United States 2
6244 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6245 Women's Figure United States 2
6246 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6247 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6248 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6249 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
6250 Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 2

Top 50 of 108,836 athletes

Dataset citation

Cite the Bodybuilding Database

Dataset version .

Suggested citation: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database, v2026-08-25

About the Database API documentation

  • Athletes: 376,340 source records, 109,593 linked athletes, 42 named sources.
  • Contests: 10,333 source records, 6,709 linked contests, 22 named sources.
  • Results: 516,268 source records, 335,787 linked results, 11 named sources.