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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
18,689 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.

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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 →

Win Rate All Divisions

Win Rate All Divisions 50 of 18,689 athletes
Rank Athlete Division Country Win Rate
1351 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1352 Men's Open Bodybuilding Brazil 42.9%
1353 Women's Physique United States 42.9%
1354 Women's Bikini Thailand 42.9%
1355 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1356 Men's Classic Physique France 42.9%
1357 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1358 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1359 Men's Open Bodybuilding Australia 42.9%
1360 Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 42.9%
1361 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1362 Women's Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1363 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1364 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1365 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1366 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1367 Other Divisions Australia 42.9%
1368 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1369 Men's Classic Physique United States 42.9%
1370 Other Divisions United States 42.9%
1371 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1372 Other Divisions United Kingdom 42.9%
1373 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1374 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1375 Women's Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1376 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1377 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1378 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1379 Women's Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1380 Men's Open Bodybuilding Belgium 42.9%
1381 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1382 Men's 212 Bodybuilding Spain 42.9%
1383 Women's Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1384 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1385 Women's Figure Russia 42.9%
1386 Women's Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1387 Women's Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1388 Women's Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1389 Women's Bodybuilding Thailand 42.9%
1390 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1391 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1392 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1393 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1394 Men's Open Bodybuilding Germany 42.9%
1395 Men's Classic Physique United States 42.9%
1396 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1397 Men's Classic Physique United States 42.9%
1398 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1399 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1400 Women's Bodybuilding United States 42.9%

Top 50 of 18,689 athletes

Dataset citation

Cite the Bodybuilding Database

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Suggested citation: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database, v2026-08-19

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.