Most Wins
Every documented first-place finish in the corpus, pro and amateur, with no weighting for the size of the show.
Career leaderboards
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.
Ranking boards
Olympia Titles
First-place finishes at Olympia contests, counted once per year and kept inside the division they were won in.
- 10 Iris Kyle
- 8 Ronnie Coleman
- 8 Cydney Gillon
Most Shows
Total contest appearances on record. It rewards a long career rather than a high placing.
- 129 Greg Grant
- 109 Michael Ferguson
- 107 Albert Beckles
Longest Career
Years from a first documented contest to the last, or to the present year while an athlete is still competing.
- 76.0 John Gallagher (1) (2)
- 74.0 Jimmy Payne
- 68.0 Tommy Johnson
Win Rate
Share of documented shows won, behind a minimum appearance threshold so a one-contest winner cannot top the board.
- 100.0% Bill Pearl
- 100.0% Rupy Deol
- 100.0% Cory Everson
GOAT List
One published weighting of Olympia wins, major and pro wins, era strength, longevity and reach, scored per athlete.
Era-Adjusted GOAT
The same composite, rescaled against how deep the field actually was in the years an athlete competed.
Prime vs Prime
Sets two athletes against each other at their best documented seasons instead of across their whole careers.
Win Rate
Win Rate
All Divisions
50 of 18,689 athletes
| Rank | Athlete | Division | Country | Win Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1902 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1903 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1904 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1905 | Women's Bikini | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1906 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1907 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1908 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1909 | Other Divisions | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1910 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United Kingdom | 40.0% | |
| 1911 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1912 | Women's Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1913 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1914 | Women's Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1915 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Mexico | 40.0% | |
| 1916 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1917 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Spain | 40.0% | |
| 1918 | Women's Figure | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1919 | Women's Physique | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1920 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1921 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1922 | Other Divisions | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1923 | Women's Figure | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1924 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1925 | Women's Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1926 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1927 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1928 | Men's Classic Physique | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1929 | Women's Figure | Brazil | 40.0% | |
| 1930 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Canada | 40.0% | |
| 1931 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1932 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Germany | 40.0% | |
| 1933 | Other Divisions | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1934 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1935 | Women's Figure | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1936 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1937 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1938 | Women's Bikini | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1939 | Women's Bodybuilding | Canada | 40.0% | |
| 1940 | Men's Classic Physique | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1941 | Women's Figure | Canada | 40.0% | |
| 1942 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1943 | Women's Figure | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1944 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1945 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1946 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1947 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1948 | Men's Classic Physique | Brazil | 40.0% | |
| 1949 | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | 40.0% | |
| 1950 | Men's Classic Physique | China | 40.0% |
Top 50 of 18,689 athletes
Every counted board on this page is one query over the same set of documented contest results. None of them is a vote, and none of them settles who was better. They settle what is on record.
Most Wins
Total 1st-place finishes across documented shows.
Olympia Titles
1st-place finishes at Olympia contests, deduped by year and division track.
Most Shows
Total career contest appearances on record.
Win Rate
Percentage of shows won, with a minimum of 5 documented shows to qualify.
Longest Career
Years from career start to end, or to the present year if the athlete is still active.
Source hierarchy
NPC News Online is primary for 2011 and later IFBB Pro results. Historical gaps are filled from IFBB Pro League, Arnold Sports, MuscleMemory and Wikipedia.
Composite boards
The GOAT and Era-Adjusted boards apply a published weighting on top of these counts. Their pages carry that formula in full.
What is not settled
A board is only as complete as the results behind it. An athlete whose early record was never digitised sits lower than their career warrants, and no ordering here corrects for that.
Dataset citation
Cite the Bodybuilding Database
Dataset version .
Suggested citation: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database, v2026-08-20
- 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.