Between 1980 and 1994, Ms. Olympia was the only division open to professional female bodybuilders. Fitness, added in 1995, was the second.
It works differently from every other women’s division. Figure and Physique judge the physique alone; Fitness adds a routine, scored on gymnastics, strength and stage presence, and it is worth two-thirds of the total. That brought in former gymnasts, dancers and cheerleaders rather than bodybuilders, and the physiques are athletic rather than heavily muscled.
Mia Finnegan won the first one. Adela Garcia holds the record at eight, and Michelle Fredua-Mensah is the reigning champion.
Every champion, 1995 to 2025
12 champions have won it across 31 contests
| Year | Champion | Country | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Michelle Fredua-Mensah | United Kingdom | Jaclyn Baker |
| 2024 |  Missy Truscott ×3 | United States | Jaclyn Baker |
| 2023 |  Oksana Grishina ×5 | Russia | Taylor Learmont |
| 2022 | Missy Truscott ×3 | United States | Jaclyn Baker |
| 2021 |  Whitney Jones ×3 | United States | Missy Truscott |
| 2020 | Missy Truscott ×3 | United States | Oksana Grishina |
| 2019 | Whitney Jones ×3 | United States | Missy Truscott |
| 2018 | Whitney Jones ×3 | United States | Ryall Graber |
| 2017 | Oksana Grishina ×5 | Russia | Myriam Capes |
| 2016 | Oksana Grishina ×5 | Russia | Tanji Johnson |
| 2015 | Oksana Grishina ×5 | Russia | Tanji Johnson |
| 2014 | Oksana Grishina ×5 | Russia | Regiane Dasilva |
| 2013 |  Adela Garcia ×8 | Dominican Republic | Oksana Grishina |
| 2012 | Adela Garcia ×8 | Dominican Republic | Oksana Grishina |
| 2011 | Adela Garcia ×8 | Dominican Republic | Tanji Johnson |
| 2010 | Adela Garcia ×8 | Dominican Republic | Unopposed |
| 2009 | Adela Garcia ×8 | Dominican Republic | Tanji Johnson |
| 2008 |  Jen Hendershott ×2 | United States | Tracey Greenwood |
| 2007 | Adela Garcia ×8 | Dominican Republic | Unopposed |
| 2006 | Adela Garcia ×8 | Dominican Republic | Jen Hendershott |
| 2005 | Jen Hendershott ×2 | United States | Kimberly Klein |
| 2004 | Adela Garcia ×8 | Dominican Republic | Jen Hendershott |
| 2003 | Susan Curry ×4 | United States | Unopposed |
| 2002 | Susan Curry ×4 | United States | Kelly Ryan |
| 2001 | Susan Curry ×4 | United States | Jennifer Worth |
| 2000 | Susan Curry ×4 | United States | Jennifer Worth |
| 1999 | Mary Yockey | United States | Kelly Ryan |
| 1998 |  Monica Brant | United States | Susan Curry |
| 1997 | Carol Semple-Marzetta | United States | Saryn Muldrow |
| 1996 | Saryn Muldrow | United States | Mia Finnegan |
| 1995 | Mia Finnegan | United States | Carol Semple-Marzetta |
Runner-up sourced from 248 recorded placings. Updates automatically.
Every Fitness Olympia champion
- Mia Finnegan1 title · United States
- Saryn Muldrow1 title · United States
- Carol Semple-Marzetta1 title · United States
Monica Brant1 title · United States- Mary Yockey1 title · United States
- Susan Curry4 titles · United States
- Adela Garcia8 titles · Dominican Republic
- Jen Hendershott2 titles · United States
- Oksana Grishina5 titles · Russia
- Whitney Jones3 titles · United States
- Missy Truscott3 titles · United States
- Michelle Fredua-Mensah1 title · United Kingdom
1995-1999: five champions in five years
The opening stretch never repeated a winner. Mia Finnegan took the first in Atlanta, ahead of Carol Semple and Saryn Muldrow. Muldrow took it in Chicago the following year, Semple in New York in 1997 after two near misses.
Monica Brant won in Nice in 1998, the only Fitness Olympia ever held outside the United States. Mary Yockey closed the decade in 1999, the year the contest settled in Las Vegas after moving cities annually.
2000-2003: Susan Curry
Curry won her first in 2000 against Kelly Ryan and Jennifer Worth, and then beat the same two women three more times. The three of them filled the podium in some order every year from 2000 to 2002.
She became the first champion to defend the title, took a third in 2002 and a fourth in 2003, then retired.
2005 and 2008: Jen Hendershott
Hendershott took the title off Garcia in 2005, with Kim Klein second and Garcia third.
Garcia, Klein and Hendershott then finished first, second and third in that exact order in both 2006 and 2007. Garcia did not defend in 2008, and Hendershott took a second title ahead of Tracey Greenwood and Kim Scheideler, becoming the second woman to win it back after losing it.
2004, 2006-2007 and 2009-2013: Adela Garcia
Garcia placed fifth on her Olympia debut in 2000 and stayed in the top five for the next three years without breaking through. Curry’s retirement opened the door and she won her first in 2004.
She lost it to Hendershott the next year, then won it back in 2006 to become the first Fitness champion to reclaim the title.
The second reclaim, in 2009, is the one that mattered. Hendershott had taken the vacant title in 2008, and Garcia came back with better conditioning and a routine people still remember. She then won it four more years running, five straight in total, and finished with eight, more than anyone else has managed.
2014-2017 and 2023: Oksana Grishina
Two runner-up finishes behind Garcia, then the title in 2014. Grishina‘s routines are the reason she is rated among the division’s best; each one raised what the next competitor had to bring.
Tanji Johnson and Regiane Da Silva were her main opposition. Johnson pushed her in 2015 and 2016 without getting past her, and Grishina took a fourth in 2017 and retired.
She came back for 2020 and 2021 chasing a fifth and finished second and third. Injury forced her out of the 2022 contest on the day of the show.
Then she won it. The 2023 Fitness Olympia was the comeback of that weekend, six years after her previous title, with an improved physique and a dance routine that settled it. The contest broke open when reigning champion Missy Truscott and former champion Whitney Jones both injured themselves during their routines.
2018-2019 and 2021: Whitney Jones
Jones finished 13th on her 2013 debut and spent the next two years just outside the top ten. A neck injury cost her the 2017 season entirely and few people rated her chances on return.
She won the 2018 title and held it in 2019, then lost it to Missy Truscott in Orlando in 2020, finishing third.
The 2021 win made her the third woman in the division to take both the physique and the routine rounds, and the third to reclaim the title.
2020, 2022 and 2024: Missy Truscott
Truscott is the first Canadian to win the division. She took her first title in 2020, beating a returning Grishina and dropping Jones to third.
2022 lost both former champions before the judging finished: Jones withdrew a day out with an undisclosed health problem, Grishina on the day of the show with a leg injury. Truscott won it in a shark costume and full facial prosthetics, and became the fourth Fitness champion to win the title back after losing it.
Her own routine injured her out of 2023. She documented the recovery, came back for 2024 with Grishina absent on maternity leave, and won a third to match Jones.
2025: Michelle Fredua-Mensah
Truscott moved to Figure, which left the title open. Arnold Classic winner Jaclyn Baker and Taylor Learmont were the expected contenders.
Fredua-Mensah beat both. The physique round was strong enough on its own, but it was the individual routine, two-thirds of the score, where she put real distance between herself and the field.
What the full results reveal
Only one champion ever won it on debut
Mia Finnegan, at the very first Olympia in 1995. Every champion since lost before winning, on average 1.3 times first.
Monica BrantAdela GarciaJen HendershottMissy TruscottOksana GrishinaWhitney JonesOlympias entered before a first title, fewest first
The best bodybuilders who never won it
Tanji Johnson reached the podium 6 times between 2009 and 2016, 4 of them as runner-up, and never took the title.
Each block is one podium finish. Filled = runner-up.
3 reigns hold 13 of the 31 titles
The title moves in blocks rather than years. The long reigns below are the dynasties; the single years are the era we are in now.
Monica BrantAdela GarciaJen HendershottAdela GarciaJen HendershottAdela GarciaOksana GrishinaWhitney JonesMissy TruscottWhitney JonesMissy TruscottOksana GrishinaMissy TruscottEach bar is one unbroken reign, oldest first
How many rivals you had to beat
The 1990s Olympia averaged 4.2 competitors. By the 2020s it was 13.2, and in the 2020s it is 13.2.
Average scored competitors per contest, by decade
Where the title lives
Champion nationality, decade by decade.
Oxblood marks a champion from outside the United States
The winners of the other divisions:
- Every 212 Olympia Winner Since 2008 (and History of the Division)
- Every Wellness Olympia Winner Since 2021
- Every Classic Physique Olympia Winner Since 2016
- Every Bikini Olympia Winner Since 2010
- Every Wheelchair Olympia Winner Since 2018
- Every Mr. Olympia (Men's Open Division) Winner Since 1965
- Every Women's Physique Olympia Winner Since 2013
- Every Figure Olympia Winner Since 2003
- Every Men's Physique Olympia Winner Since 2013
- Every Ms. Olympia Winner Since 1980 (and History of the Division)
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