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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
108,752 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 16, 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.

Open GOAT List →

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 →

Most Shows All Divisions

Most Shows All Divisions 50 of 108,752 athletes
Rank Athlete Division Country Most Shows
201 Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 42
202 Women's Physique Canada 42
203 Men's Physique United States 42
204 Women's Figure United States 42
205 Women's Figure United States 42
206 Women's Physique United States 42
207 Women's Figure Canada 42
208 Women's Figure United States 42
209 Women's Figure United States 42
210 Women's Physique United States 42
211 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42
212 Women's Figure United States 42
213 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42
214 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42
215 Men's Open Bodybuilding France 42
216 Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 42
217 Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 42
218 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42
219 Women's Bikini - 41
220 Men's Physique United States 41
221 Women's Physique United States 41
222 Men's Physique United States 41
223 Women's Bikini United States 41
224 Men's Physique United States 41
225 Women's Physique United States 41
226 Women's Physique United States 41
227 Men's Classic Physique United States 41
228 Women's Figure United States 41
229 Women's Physique United States 41
230 Women's Figure United States 41
231 Men's Classic Physique United States 41
232 Women's Physique United States 41
233 Women's Figure United States 41
234 Women's Figure United States 41
235 Women's Physique United States 41
236 Women's Bodybuilding United States 41
237 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 41
238 Women's Bodybuilding United States 41
239 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 41
240 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 41
241 Men's Open Bodybuilding Japan 41
242 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 41
243 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 41
244 Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 41
245 Men's Open Bodybuilding Japan 41
246 Men's Open Bodybuilding Jamaica 41
247 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 41
248 Men's Wheelchair United States 41
249 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 40
250 Women's Bikini United States 40

Top 50 of 108,752 athletes

Dataset citation

Cite the Bodybuilding Database

Dataset version .

Suggested citation: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database, v2026-08-16

About the Database API documentation

  • Athletes: 375,958 source records, 109,508 linked athletes, 42 named sources.
  • Contests: 10,314 source records, 6,716 linked contests, 22 named sources.
  • Results: 515,394 source records, 335,499 linked results, 11 named sources.

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