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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 20, 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.

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Head to head

Prime vs Prime

Sets two athletes against each other at their best documented seasons instead of across their whole careers.

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Win Rate All Divisions

Win Rate All Divisions 50 of 18,689 athletes
Rank Athlete Division Country Win Rate
2251 Women's Physique United States 37.5%
2252 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2253 Women's Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2254 Women's Figure United States 37.5%
2255 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2256 Other Divisions United States 37.5%
2257 Men's Open Bodybuilding France 37.5%
2258 Other Divisions United States 37.5%
2259 Women's Bikini USA 37.5%
2260 Other Divisions United States 37.5%
2261 Men's Open Bodybuilding Brazil 37.5%
2262 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2263 Women's Wellness Portugal 37.5%
2264 Women's Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2265 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2266 Women's Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2267 Women's Figure United States 37.5%
2268 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2269 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2270 Men's Open Bodybuilding Malaysia 37.5%
2271 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2272 Men's Classic Physique United States 37.5%
2273 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2274 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2275 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2276 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2277 Other Divisions United Kingdom 37.5%
2278 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2279 Women's Figure United States 37.5%
2280 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2281 Women's Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2282 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2283 Women's Figure United States 37.5%
2284 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2285 Women's Figure United States 37.5%
2286 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2287 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2288 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2289 Men's Open Bodybuilding Indonesia 37.5%
2290 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2291 Women's Figure United States 37.5%
2292 Women's Figure United States 37.5%
2293 Women's Figure United States 37.5%
2294 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2295 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2296 Women's Bodybuilding Lithuania 37.5%
2297 Women's Bikini United States 37.5%
2298 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37.5%
2299 Women's Figure United States 37.5%
2300 Women's Bodybuilding United States 37.5%

Top 50 of 18,689 athletes

Dataset citation

Cite the Bodybuilding Database

Dataset version .

Suggested citation: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database, v2026-08-22

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.