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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
1451 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1452 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1453 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1454 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1455 Women's Physique United States 42.9%
1456 Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 42.9%
1457 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1458 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1459 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1460 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1461 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1462 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1463 Women's Physique United States 42.9%
1464 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1465 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1466 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1467 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1468 Women's Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1469 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1470 Women's Bodybuilding Romania 42.9%
1471 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1472 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1473 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1474 Men's Classic Physique United States 42.9%
1475 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1476 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1477 Women's Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1478 Women's Figure United States 42.9%
1479 Women's Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1480 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1481 Women's Figure United Kingdom 42.9%
1482 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1483 Men's Open Bodybuilding Australia 42.9%
1484 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1485 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1486 Women's Physique Greece 42.9%
1487 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.9%
1488 Women's Physique United States 42.1%
1489 Women's Bodybuilding Slovenia 42.1%
1490 Women's Figure United States 42.1%
1491 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.1%
1492 Women's Figure United States 42.1%
1493 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.1%
1494 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.1%
1495 Women's Figure United States 42.1%
1496 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42.1%
1497 Women's Wellness Germany 42.1%
1498 Women's Bikini United States 41.9%
1499 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 41.7%
1500 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 41.7%

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.