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2026 Olympia Qualified Competitors & Requirements List

Greg Patutoby Greg Patuto Published on Sep 1, 2026

Derek Lunsford Wins 2025 Mr. Olympia

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A complete list of the qualified bodybuilders for the 2026 Mr. Olympia.

The dates and location of the 2026 Mr. Olympia have been set for Las Vegas, Nevada from September 24th – 27th at the Palms Casino Resort and Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. Details have been shared with Generation Iron and athletes have already begun punching their tickets to the event.

The qualification period began on Sept. 15 and will run to Aug. 30, 2026. In 2022, the IFBB did away with the points qualification system for all divisions other than Wheelchair. Competitors also had the chance to qualify by winning a show. Now, athletes will have to win two shows in certain divisions over the course of the season in order to compete on the biggest stage in bodybuilding.

In this post we share the IFBB Pro League’s full qualification set of rules for the 2026 Olympia competition.

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2026 Olympia Qualification Rules

Men’s Open, Men’s 212, Women’s Bodybuilding, Fitness, Figure, Women’s Physique, Fit Model

  • Top 3 from 2025 Olympia
  • Top 3 in Women’s Bodybuilding from the Rising Phoenix
  • Winner of each open contest held during qualification period

Classic Physique, Men’s Physique, Bikini, Wellness

  • Top 25 in point standings qualify automaticaly
  • Automatic qualification with two contest wins

Olympia

  • 1st – Auto
  • 2nd – Auto
  • 3rd – Auto
  • 4th – 12 points
  • 5th – 10 points

Arnold Classic, Pittsburgh Pro, New York Pro, Romania Muscle Fest Pro, Dubai Pro

  • 1st – Auto
  • 2nd – 14 points
  • 3rd – 11 points
  • 4th – 9 points
  • 5th – 7 points

All other contests

  • 1st – 10 points
  • 2nd – 4 points
  • 3rd – 3 points
  • 4th – 2 points
  • 5th – 1 point

Pro Wheelchair

  • Top 3 from 2025 Olympia
  • Winner of each open contest held during qualification period
  • Top 5 in the point standings

Points:

  • 2nd – 10 points
  • 3rd – 9 points
  • 4th – 8 points
  • 5th – 7 points

2026 Olympia Qualified Athletes

Men’s Open

  • Behrouz Tabani Abarghani
  • Tonio Burton
  • William Bonac
  • Hadi Choopan
  • Shaun Clarida
  • Michael Condell
  • Brandon Curry
  • Sergey Danilov
  • Samson Dauda
  • Quinton Eriya
  • Martin Fitzwater
  • Mohamed Foda
  • Regan Grimes
  • Sasan Heirati
  • James Hollingshead
  • Jordan Hutchinson
  • Andrew Jacked
  • Edward Kargbo
  • Michal Krizo
  • Damian Kuffel
  • Derek Lunsford
  • Patrick Moore
  • Leandro Sencini Peres
  • Andrea Presti
  • Nick Walker

Men’s 212

  • Juan Aleman
  • Radoslav Angelov
  • Breon Ansley
  • Francisco Barrios
  • Shaun Clarida
  • Michael Condell
  • Angel Caleron Frias
  • Esteban Fuquene
  • Lucas Garcia
  • Cameron George
  • Zhaofeng He
  • Nihat Kaya
  • Xiaoshuang Lan
  • Wei Li
  • Ching Chieh Lin
  • Felipe Isaac Fierro Lobos
  • Yinka Majolagbe
  • Nasser Mohammad
  • Felipe Morales
  • Victor Alves Porto De Oliveira
  • Courage Opara
  • Keone Pearson
  • Andrey Pereira
  • Naotaka Yokokawa

Classic Physique

  • Mohammad Ali
  • Niall Darwen
  • Ethan Gohari
  • Rodni Nelson Hebbert
  • Seungchan Hong
  • Fabio Junio
  • Chen Kang
  • Kyrylo Khudaiev
  • Livingstone Livinho
  • Andrea Mammoli
  • Jose Manuel Munoz
  • Prosper Nwafor
  • Vitaliy Omelycenko
  • Samuel Paquin
  • Zhivko Petkov
  • Ramon Rocha Queiroz
  • Anton Ratushnyi
  • Luca Reger
  • David Aguiar Rosales
  • Terrence Ruffin
  • Mike Sommerfeld
  • Tom Stanley
  • Paulin Tsamezeu
  • Wesley Vissers
  • Kellen Wilson
  • Piotr Wojtowicz
  • Gabriel Zancanelli

Men’s Physique

  • Kamal Aitirhmour
  • Ali Bilal
  • Erin Banks
  • Dallas Botchway
  • Vitor Chaves
  • Andrei Deiu
  • Juxian He
  • Brandon Hendrickson
  • Kyron Holden
  • Emanuel Hunter
  • Jason Huynh
  • Dan Ibrahim
  • Mehdi Kabbadj
  • Talha Kilic
  • Yoon Sung Lee
  • Jinbo Li
  • Francisco Martinez
  • Jeremiah Maxey
  • Corey Morris
  • Carlos Asiedu Ocran
  • Edvan Palmeira
  • Sidy Pouye
  • Victor Ramirez
  • Ryan Terry
  • Emile Walker
  • Torre Washington
  • Li Xiaolong

Ms. Olympia

  • Alcione Santos Barreto
  • Leyvina Barros
  • Nadia Capotosto
  • Desunka Dawson
  • Martina Lopez
  • Ashley Lynnette Jones
  • Anastasia Korableva
  • Barbara De Freitas Moojen
  • Megan Morrison
  • Alide Opre
  • Paula Ranta
  • Andrea Shaw

Fitness

  • Jaclyn Baker
  • Abby Bolton
  • Anna Fomina
  • Michelle Fredua-Mensah
  • Andrea Glass
  • Sophie Gregory
  • Oksana Grishina
  • Stephanie Jones
  • Allison Kramer
  • Taylor Learmont
  • Samantha Radzai
  • Amber Steffen

Figure

  • Dorethane Agathina
  • Beatriz Almeida
  • Eileen Aviles
  • Tamera Barrett
  • Kristina Bodnariuk
  • Anna Borin
  • Lauren Calderoni
  • Xinyu Chen
  • Rhea Gayle
  • Nicole Zenobia Graham
  • Vanessa Happle
  • Ashley Howells
  • Nadine Claudia Huber
  • Sachiko Ito
  • An Da Jeong
  • Jeanne Kassel
  • Jaslynn Kyander
  • Tereza Linhartova
  • Tessa Meetze
  • Sarah Molina
  • Lola Montez
  • Katja Nowack
  • Brittne Pence
  • Sara Pozzer
  • Jessica Reyes Padilla
  • Dekel Quant
  • Lena Ramsteiner
  • Saionara Rebelo
  • Cherish Richardson
  • Natalia Soltero
  • Missy Truscott
  • Kristina Zafirova
  • Jennifer Zienert
  • Denise Zwinger-Tynek

Bikini

  • Maria Acosta
  • Emily Beveridge
  • Wu Bi
  • Maureen Blanquisco
  • Jordan Brannon
  • Lauralie Chapados
  • Cynthia Chen
  • Sara Choi
  • Viktoria Csicsayova
  • Cassandra De La Rosa
  • Aimee Leann Delgado
  • Megan D’Ginto
  • Ivanna Escandar
  • Jasmine Gonzalez
  • Phoebe Hagan
  • Reijuana Harley
  • Adrianna Kaczmarek
  • Ashley Kaltwasser
  • Sally-Anne Kato
  • Ashlyn Little
  • Zsofia Molnar
  • Elisa Pecini
  • Reyna Perez
  • Bruna Toigo
  • Jiaqi Wei

Women’s Physique

  • Zama Benta
  • Sara Bradley
  • Julia Cabarcos
  • Natalia Abraham Coelho
  • Lenka Ferencukova
  • Marianne Von Gierke
  • Sheronica Henton
  • Marika Jones
  • Jessica Macedo
  • Amanda De Carvalho Machado
  • Silvia Cuartero Martinez
  • Naiana Nana
  • Paula Ranta
  • Autumn Swansen
  • Trisha Pollydore
  • Sarah Villegas
  • Brooke Walker
  • Hong Yan

Wellness

  • Elisa Alcantara
  • Eduarda Bezerra
  • Valeria Bodanese
  • Leonida Ciobu
  • Alexis Drury
  • Rayane Fogal
  • Camille Luz
  • Josy Alves Macedo
  • Francielle Mattos
  • Daniele Mendonca
  • Juliana Moto
  • Isabelle Nunes
  • Maria Rita Penteado
  • Camila Camila Rodrigues
  • Rosemary Rodriguez
  • Bruna Seredich
  • Narla Vilar
  • Wenqian Yang

Fit Model

  • Shealynn Burnett
  • Emily Chanel
  • Seojin Cheong
  • Faithlyn Derla
  • Svetland Fedkina
  • Julia Heinio
  • Emma Henderson
  • Elizabeth Hunter
  • Jane Jones
  • Alizee Juras
  • Aisha Mian
  • Phuong Pearl Nguyen
  • Gabriela Queiroz
  • Carla Andrea Reyes
  • Victoria Schmidt
  • Hui Wu
  • Misty Yang
  • Alicia Young

Pro Wheelchair

  • Gabriele Andriulli
  • James Berger
  • Josue Fabiano
  • Ephraim Gudgeon
  • Rajesh John
  • Harold Kelley
  • Mostafa Darvish Khezri
  • Karol Milewski
  • Mohammad Reza Tabrizi Nouri
  • Kevin Secudino

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