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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
18,698 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 23, 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 18,698 athletes
Rank Athlete Division Country Win Rate
3001 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3002 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3003 Women's Bodybuilding Thailand 33.3%
3004 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3005 Women's Figure United States 33.3%
3006 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3007 Men's Physique United States 33.3%
3008 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3009 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3010 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3011 Women's Figure United States 33.3%
3012 Women's Bikini United States 33.3%
3013 Women's Figure United States 33.3%
3014 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3015 Women's Figure United States 33.3%
3016 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3017 Women's Bikini United States 33.3%
3018 Men's Classic Physique - 33.3%
3019 Women's Figure United Kingdom 33.3%
3020 Women's Figure United States 33.3%
3021 Women's Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3022 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3023 Other Divisions United States 33.3%
3024 Women's Figure United States 33.3%
3025 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3026 Women's Bodybuilding Russia 33.3%
3027 Women's Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3028 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3029 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3030 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3031 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3032 Women's Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3033 Women's Bodybuilding Canada 33.3%
3034 Men's Classic Physique United States 33.3%
3035 Women's Figure United States 33.3%
3036 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3037 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3038 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3039 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3040 Men's Classic Physique United States 33.3%
3041 Women's Physique United States 33.3%
3042 Women's Physique United States 33.3%
3043 Other Divisions United States 33.3%
3044 Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 33.3%
3045 Women's Figure United States 33.3%
3046 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3047 Other Divisions United States 33.3%
3048 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3049 Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33.3%
3050 Men's Open Bodybuilding Australia 33.3%

Top 50 of 18,698 athletes

Dataset citation

Cite the Bodybuilding Database

Dataset version .

Suggested citation: Fitness Volt Bodybuilding Database, v2026-08-23

About the Database API documentation

  • Athletes: 376,165 source records, 109,554 linked athletes, 42 named sources.
  • Contests: 10,331 source records, 6,724 linked contests, 22 named sources.
  • Results: 516,522 source records, 336,063 linked results, 11 named sources.