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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
108,782 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 19, 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 Shows All Divisions

Most Shows All Divisions 50 of 108,782 athletes
Rank Athlete Division Country Most Shows
851 Women's Figure United States 26
852 Women's Physique United States 26
853 Women's Figure Canada 26
854 Women's Figure United States 26
855 Women's Physique United States 26
856 Women's Figure United States 26
857 Women's Figure United States 26
858 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
859 Women's Figure United States 26
860 Women's Figure United States 26
861 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
862 Women's Bodybuilding United States 26
863 Women's Figure United States 26
864 Women's Figure United States 26
865 Women's Physique United States 26
866 Men's Physique United States 26
867 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
868 Women's Physique Chile 26
869 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
870 Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 26
871 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
872 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
873 Women's Physique United States 26
874 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
875 Women's Physique United States 26
876 Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 26
877 Women's Figure United States 26
878 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
879 Women's Physique United States 26
880 Women's Figure United States 26
881 Women's Bodybuilding Canada 26
882 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
883 Women's Physique United States 26
884 Women's Bodybuilding United States 26
885 Women's Physique United States 26
886 Women's Bodybuilding United States 26
887 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
888 Women's Figure United States 26
889 Women's Figure Germany 26
890 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
891 Women's Bodybuilding United States 26
892 Men's Wheelchair United States 26
893 Men's Open Bodybuilding - 26
894 Women's Bodybuilding United States 26
895 Women's Bodybuilding Canada 26
896 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
897 Women's Bikini Poland 26
898 Women's Bodybuilding Australia 26
899 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
900 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26

Top 50 of 108,782 athletes

Dataset citation

Cite the Bodybuilding Database

Dataset version .

Suggested citation: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database, v2026-08-18

About the Database API documentation

  • Athletes: 376,080 source records, 109,537 linked athletes, 42 named sources.
  • Contests: 10,332 source records, 6,725 linked contests, 22 named sources.
  • Results: 516,222 source records, 335,913 linked results, 11 named sources.