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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
108,699 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 13, 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 108,699 athletes
Rank Athlete Division Country Most Shows
51 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 64
52 Men's Open Bodybuilding Greece 63
53 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 63
54 Men's Physique United States 62
55 Women's Figure United States 62
56 Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 62
57 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 62
58 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 62
59 Women's Bikini United States 61
60 Women's Bikini United States 61
61 Women's Figure United States 61
62 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 61
63 Women's Figure United States 60
64 Men's Physique United States 60
65 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 60
66 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 60
67 Women's Bikini United States 59
68 Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 59
69 Women's Bodybuilding United States 59
70 Women's Bodybuilding Canada 59
71 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 59
72 Women's Bikini United States 58
73 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 58
74 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 58
75 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 58
76 Women's Bikini United States 57
77 Women's Bikini United States 57
78 Women's Figure Canada 57
79 Men's Open Bodybuilding Lebanon 57
80 Men's Physique United States 56
81 Men's Physique United States 56
82 Women's Figure United States 56
83 Men's Classic Physique Canada 56
84 Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 56
85 Women's Figure United States 56
86 Women's Physique United States 56
87 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 56
88 Women's Bodybuilding United States 55
89 Women's Bikini United States 55
90 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 55
91 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 55
92 Women's Bodybuilding Venezuela 55
93 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 55
94 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 55
95 Women's Figure United States 54
96 Men's Physique United States 54
97 Women's Figure United States 54
98 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 54
99 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 54
100 Men's Open Bodybuilding Poland 54

Top 50 of 108,699 athletes

Dataset citation

Cite the Bodybuilding Database

Dataset version .

Suggested citation: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database, v2026-08-14

About the Database API documentation

  • Athletes: 375,797 source records, 109,460 linked athletes, 42 named sources.
  • Contests: 10,308 source records, 6,716 linked contests, 22 named sources.
  • Results: 514,080 source records, 334,866 linked results, 11 named sources.

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