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Most Arnold Classic Titles

Athletes with the most flagship Arnold Classic victories, resolved by contest name across the full Arnold history. View methodology.

6 Arnold Titles
Record holder Harold Kelley United States Men's Wheelchair

Harold Kelley leads with 6 Arnold Classic titles.

  1. 2 Dexter Jackson 5 United States
  2. 1 Harold Kelley 6 United States
  3. 3 Adela Garcia 5 Dominican Republic

The table lists the top 100 athletes by flagship Arnold Classic titles won in Columbus. Regional and amateur Arnold shows are not counted, so the totals here are smaller than a straight search on the Arnold name would give.

Arnold Titles 100 ranked athletes
Rank Athlete Division Country Arnold Titles
1 Harold Kelley Men's Wheelchair United States 6
2 Dexter Jackson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 5
3 Adela Garcia Women's Fitness Dominican Republic 5
4 Flex Wheeler Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 4
5 Oksana Grishina Women's Fitness Russia 4
6 Susie Curry Women's Fitness United States 4
7 Kai Greene Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 3
8 Jay Cutler Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 3
9 Lauralie Chapados Women's Bikini United States 3
10 Ariel Khadr Women's Fitness United States 3
11 Yaxeni Oriquen-Garcia Women's Bodybuilding Venezuela 3
12 Ashley Kaltwasser Women's Bikini United States 2
13 Natalia Abraham Coelho Women's Physique United States 2
14 Vince Taylor Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
15 Kevin Levrone Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
16 Iris Kyle Women's Bodybuilding United States 2
17 Cydney Gillon Women's Figure United States 2
18 Candice Lewis-Carter Women's Figure United States 2
19 William Bonac Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 2
20 India Paulino Women's Bikini United States 2
21 Branch Warren Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
22 Terrence Ruffin Men's Classic Physique United States 2
23 Breon Ansley Men's Classic Physique United States 2
24 Brandon Hendrickson Men's Physique United States 2
25 Brandon Curry Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 2
26 Angelica Teixeira Women's Bikini United States 2
27 Erin Banks Men's Physique United States 2
28 Missy Truscott Women's Fitness United States 2
29 Laura Creavalle Women's Bodybuilding British Guiana 2
30 Wesley Vissers Men's Classic Physique Netherlands 2
31 Vickie Gates Women's Bodybuilding United States 2
32 Sadik Hadzovic Men's Physique United States 2
33 Jen Hendershott Women's Fitness United States 2
34 Rajesh John Men's Wheelchair India 2
35 Kimberly Klein Women's Figure United States 2
36 Carol Lynn Semple Women's Fitness United States 2
37 Kim Chizevsky-Nicholls Women's Bodybuilding United States 2
38 Flex Lewis Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 1
39 Ronnie Coleman Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 1
40 Jose Raymond Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 1
41 Kamal Elgargni Men's Open Bodybuilding Libya 1
42 Aimee Delgado Women's Bikini United States 1
43 Elisa Pecini Women's Bikini Brazil 1
44 Candice Keene Women's Figure United States 1
45 Nicole Wilkins Women's Figure United States 1
46 Alejandro Cambronero Men's Classic Physique United States 1
47 Jenny Lynn Women's Figure United States 1
48 Cedric McMillan Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 1
49 Rich Gaspari Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 1
50 Yaxeni Oriquen Women's Bodybuilding Venezuela 1
51 Victor Martinez Men's Open Bodybuilding Dominican Republic 1
52 Gabriele Andriulli Men's Wheelchair Italy 1
53 Hadi Choopan Men's Open Bodybuilding Iran 1
54 Derek Lunsford Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 1
55 Hidetada Yamagishi Men's Open Bodybuilding Japan 1
56 Natalia Soltero Women's Figure Mexico 1
57 Juliana Malacarne Women's Physique Brazil 1
58 Ryan Terry Men's Physique United Kingdom 1
59 Janet Layug Women's Bikini United States 1
60 Ryall Graber Women's Fitness United States 1
61 Chinedu Obiekea (Andrew Jacked) Men's Open Bodybuilding United Arab Emirates 1
62 Nick Walker Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 1
63 Dennis Wolf Men's Open Bodybuilding Germany 1
64 Ali Bilal Men's Physique Afghanistan 1
65 Kassandra Gillis Women's Wellness United States 1
66 Rayane Fogal Women's Wellness Brazil 1
67 Shanique Grant Women's Physique United States 1
68 Valentina Chepiga Women's Bodybuilding Ukraine 1
69 Mary Elizabeth Lado Women's Figure United States 1
70 Ahmad Hamad Ashkanani Men's Open Bodybuilding Australia 1
71 Nasser El Sonbaty Men's Open Bodybuilding Germany 1
72 Michael Francois Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 1
73 Mike Sommerfeld Men's Classic Physique Germany 1
74 Whitney Jones Women's Fitness United States 1
75 Michelle Fredua-Mensah Women's Fitness United Kingdom 1
76 Shawn Ray Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 1
77 Mike Ashley Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 1
78 Jennifer Dorie Women's Bikini United States 1
79 Eduarda Bezerra Women's Wellness Brazil 1
80 Francielle Mattos Women's Wellness United States 1
81 Tanji Johnson Women's Fitness United States 1
82 Brenda Raganot Women's Bodybuilding United States 1
83 James Berger Men's Wheelchair United States 1
84 Dayana Cadeau Women's Bodybuilding Haiti 1
85 Samson Dauda Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 1
86 Nicole Nagrani Women's Bikini United States 1
87 Isabelle Nunes Women's Wellness Brazil 1
88 Daniely Castilho Women's Physique Canada 1
89 Ramon Rocha Queiroz Men's Classic Physique Brazil 1
90 Vania Auguste Women's Bikini United States 1
91 Sonia Gonzalez Women's Bikini United States 1
92 Jaclyn Baker Women's Fitness United States 1
93 Jackie Paisley Women's Bodybuilding United States 1
94 Carol Semple-Marzetta Women's Fitness United States 1
95 Anja Schreiner Women's Bodybuilding United States 1
96 Jenny Worth Women's Fitness United States 1
97 Diogo Montenegro Men's Physique United States 1
98 Kelly Ryan Women's Fitness United States 1
99 Alexandra Beres Women's Fitness United States 1
100 Yolanda Hughes-Heying Women's Bodybuilding United States 1

About This List

Athletes with the most flagship Arnold Classic victories, resolved by contest name across the full Arnold history. Titles are counted from recorded results using a name-independent rule, not from hand-typed totals, and duplicate source rows for the same athlete, division and year are removed before counting.

Arnold Classic titles count flagship Arnold Classic (Columbus) victories across the full event history. Regional and amateur Arnold shows are excluded.

Click any athlete to open their full career profile, including complete contest history and head-to-head matchups.

What the record shows beyond this list

This page ranks athletes. These six studies run the same archive the other way round, asking what the whole body of results says about how titles are won, at what age, and by whom. Each states its own sample and date range.

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