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Youngest Olympia Champions

Athletes who won a first Olympia title (any division except the 212) at the youngest age. Limited to champions with a recorded birthdate. View methodology.

20 Age at First Title
Record holder Nicole Nagrani United States Women's Bikini

Ranked from 69 verified birthdates

Among Olympia champions in our database with a recorded birthdate, Nicole Nagrani won a first Olympia title at the youngest age, 20 years old (2011).

  1. 2 Elisa Pecini 22 Brazil
  2. 1 Nicole Nagrani 20 United States
  3. 3 Arnold Schwarzenegger 23 Austria

Every Olympia champion in our database carrying a recorded birthdate is ranked from the youngest first title up, 69 of them, and the table lists all of them. It ranks the champions whose birth year we can confirm, not every Olympia champion.

Age at First Title 69 ranked athletes
Rank Athlete Division Country Age at First Title
1 Nicole Nagrani Women's Bikini United States 20
2 Elisa Pecini Women's Bikini Brazil 22
3 Arnold Schwarzenegger Men's Open Bodybuilding Austria 23
4 Courtney King Women's Bikini United States 23
5 Shanique Grant Women's Physique United States 23
6 Jeremy Buendia Men's Physique United States 24
7 Chris Bumstead Men's Classic Physique Canada 24
8 Rachel McLish Women's Bodybuilding United States 25
9 Lee Haney Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 25
10 Nicole Wilkins Women's Figure United States 25
11 Ashley Kaltwasser Women's Bikini United States 25
12 Cydney Gillon Women's Figure United States 25
13 Jennifer Dorie Women's Bikini United States 25
14 Sergio Oliva Men's Open Bodybuilding Cuba 26
15 Kike Elomaa Women's Bodybuilding Finland 26
16 Cory Everson Women's Bodybuilding United States 26
17 Natalia Abraham Coelho Women's Physique United States 26
18 Larry Scott Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 27
19 Mary Yockey Women's Fitness United States 27
20 Eduarda Bezerra Women's Wellness Brazil 27
21 Samir Bannout Men's Open Bodybuilding Lebanon 28
22 Lenda Murray Women's Bodybuilding United States 28
23 Kim Chizevsky Women's Bodybuilding United States 28
24 Monica Brant Women's Figure United States 28
25 Susan Curry Women's Fitness United States 28
26 Nathalia Melo Women's Bikini United States 28
27 Isabelle Nunes Women's Wellness Brazil 28
28 Carla Dunlap Women's Bodybuilding United States 29
29 Mia Finnegan Women's Fitness United States 29
30 Davana Medina Women's Figure United States 29
31 Maureen Blanquisco Women's Bikini Philippines 29
32 Dorian Yates Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 30
33 Iris Kyle Women's Bodybuilding United States 30
34 Erin Stern Women's Figure United States 30
35 Dana Linn Bailey Women's Physique United States 30
36 Derek Lunsford Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 30
37 Ramon Rocha Queiroz Men's Classic Physique Brazil 30
38 Carol Semple-Marzetta Women's Fitness United States 31
39 Brandon Hendrickson Men's Physique United States 31
40 Phil Heath Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 32
41 Angelica Teixeira Women's Bikini United States 32
42 Janet Layug Women's Bikini United States 32
43 Adela Garcia Women's Fitness Dominican Republic 33
44 Jay Cutler Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33
45 Ronnie Coleman Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 34
46 Jen Hendershott Women's Fitness United States 34
47 Jenny Lynn Women's Figure United States 34
48 Erin Banks Men's Physique United States 34
49 Franco Columbu Men's Open Bodybuilding Italy 35
50 Frank Zane Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 35
51 Francielle Mattos Women's Wellness United States 35
52 Hadi Choopan Men's Open Bodybuilding Iran 35
53 Ryan Terry Men's Physique United Kingdom 35
54 Oksana Grishina Women's Fitness Russia 36
55 Mamdouh Elssbiay Men's Open Bodybuilding Egypt 36
56 Brandon Curry Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37
57 Andrea Shaw Women's Bodybuilding United States 37
58 Valentina Chepiga Women's Bodybuilding Ukraine 38
59 Breon Ansley Men's Classic Physique United States 38
60 Samson Dauda Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 38
61 Yaxeni Oriquen Women's Bodybuilding Venezuela 39
62 Dexter Jackson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 39
63 Raymont Edmonds Men's Physique United States 39
64 Juliana Malacarne Women's Physique Brazil 40
65 Whitney Jones Women's Fitness United States 41
66 Chris Dickerson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 43
67 Juliette Bergmann Women's Bodybuilding Netherlands 43
68 Shawn Rhoden Men's Open Bodybuilding Jamaica 43
69 Harold Kelley Men's Wheelchair United States 47

About This List

Athletes who won a first Olympia title (any division except the 212) at the youngest age. Limited to champions with a recorded birthdate. The ranking is built from the bio data recorded against each athlete in our database, not from contest placings, so an athlete appears on this list only once we hold the measurement.

Age at first title is the contest year of an athlete's first Olympia win in any division except the 212, minus their birth year, using the same authoritative Olympia predicate as the rest of the site. Only the 69 Olympia champions with a recorded birthdate are ranked, so the list is limited to confirmed birthdates and is not a complete record of every champion.

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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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