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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.

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
2551 Men's Open Bodybuilding France 33.3%
2552 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2553 Women's Figure United States 33.3%
2554 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2555 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2556 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2557 Women's Physique United States 33.3%
2558 Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 33.3%
2559 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2560 Women's Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2561 Women's Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2562 Other Divisions Japan 33.3%
2563 Men's Open Bodybuilding Finland 33.3%
2564 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2565 Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 33.3%
2566 Women's Figure United States 33.3%
2567 Men's Classic Physique United States 33.3%
2568 Women's Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2569 Women's Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2570 Women's Physique United States 33.3%
2571 Women's Figure United States 33.3%
2572 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2573 Other Divisions France 33.3%
2574 Women's Figure United States 33.3%
2575 Women's Figure Canada 33.3%
2576 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2577 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2578 Other Divisions Canada 33.3%
2579 Men's Physique South Korea 33.3%
2580 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2581 Women's Bodybuilding Denmark 33.3%
2582 Women's Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2583 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2584 Women's Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2585 Other Divisions United States 33.3%
2586 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2587 Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 33.3%
2588 Women's Physique Canada 33.3%
2589 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2590 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2591 Men's Open Bodybuilding Australia 33.3%
2592 Women's Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2593 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2594 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2595 Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 33.3%
2596 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2597 Women's Bikini United States 33.3%
2598 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
2599 Women's Figure United States 33.3%
2600 Women's Figure United States 33.3%

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.