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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
1401 Other Divisions Australia 42.9%
1402 Women's Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1403 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1404 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1405 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1406 Women's Figure Venezuela 42.9%
1407 Men's Open Bodybuilding Germany 42.9%
1408 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1409 Men's Physique Paraguay 42.9%
1410 Women's Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1411 Women's Physique United States 42.9%
1412 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1413 Men's Classic Physique United States 42.9%
1414 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1415 Men's Open Bodybuilding Singapore 42.9%
1416 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1417 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1418 Men's Open Bodybuilding Australia 42.9%
1419 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1420 Other Divisions United States 42.9%
1421 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1422 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1423 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1424 Women's Figure Canada 42.9%
1425 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1426 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1427 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1428 Men's Classic Physique United States 42.9%
1429 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1430 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1431 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1432 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1433 Women's Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1434 Women's Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1435 Women's Bodybuilding Turkey 42.9%
1436 Women's Bikini United States 42.9%
1437 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1438 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1439 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1440 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1441 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1442 Men's Physique Brazil 42.9%
1443 Men's Open Bodybuilding Guatemala 42.9%
1444 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1445 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1446 Women's Physique United States 42.9%
1447 Women's Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1448 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1449 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1450 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%

Top 50 of 18,689 athletes

Dataset citation

Cite the Bodybuilding Database

Dataset version .

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.