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The 2026 Olympia Qualified Competitors & Requirements List

Greg Patutoby Greg Patuto Published on Apr 27, 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.

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

  • Tonio Burton
  • Hadi Choopan
  • Shaun Clarida
  • Sergey Danilov
  • Martin Fitzwater
  • Mohamed Foda
  • Sasan Heirati
  • Andrew Jacked
  • Michal Krizo
  • Damien Kuffel
  • Derek Lunsford
  • Leandro Sencini Peres
  • Andrea Presti

Men’s 212

  • Radoslav Angelov
  • Shaun Clarida
  • Lucas Garcia
  • Zhaofeng He
  • Ching Chieh Lin
  • Felipe Isaac Fierro Lobos
  • Yinka Majolagbe
  • Nasser Mohammad
  • Felipe Morales
  • Keone Pearson
  • Francisco Barrios Vlk

Classic Physique

  • Mohammad Ali
  • Ethan Gohari
  • Fabio Junio
  • Andrea Mammoli
  • Jose Manuel Munez
  • Prosper Nwafor
  • Vitaliy Omelycenko
  • Ramon Rocha Queiroz
  • Anton Ratushnyi
  • Terrence Ruffin
  • Mike Sommerfeld
  • Paulin Tsamezeu
  • Wesley Vissers
  • Piotr Wojtowicz

Men’s Physique

  • Ali Bilal
  • Andrei Deiu
  • Brandon Hendrickson
  • Kyron Holden
  • Emanuel Hunter
  • Mehdi Kabbadj
  • Jinbo Li
  • Francisco Martinez
  • Carlos Asiedu Ocran
  • Edvan Palmeira
  • Ryan Terry
  • Emile Walker
  • Torre Washington

Ms. Olympia

  • Leyvina Barros
  • Desunka Dawson
  • Ashley Lynnette Jones
  • Anastasia Korableva
  • Barbara De Freitas Moojen
  • Andrea Shaw

Fitness

  • Jaclyn Baker
  • Michelle Fredua-Mensah
  • Andrea Glass
  • Taylor Learmont
  • Amber Steffen

Figure

  • Dorethane Agathina
  • Kristina Bodnariuk
  • Rhea Gayle
  • Ashley Howells
  • Nadine Claudia Huber
  • Jeanne Kassel
  • Tereza Linhartova
  • Tessa Meetze
  • Lola Montez
  • Katja Nowack
  • Jessica Reyes Padilla
  • Dekel Quant
  • Lena Ramsteiner
  • Natalia Soltero
  • Missy Truscott
  • Kristina Zafirova
  • Jennifer Zienert
  • Denise Zwinger-Tynek

Bikini

  • Maria Acosta
  • Wu Bi
  • Maureen Blanquisco
  • Jordan Brannon
  • Viktoria Csicsayova
  • Aimee Leann Delgado
  • Megan D’Ginto
  • Jasmine Gonzalez
  • Phoebe Hagan
  • Reijuana Harley
  • Adrianna Kaczmarek
  • Ashley Kaltwasser
  • Sally-Anne Kato
  • Ashlyn Little
  • Elisa Pecini
  • Bruna Toigo

Women’s Physique

  • Zama Benta
  • Natalia Abraham Coelho
  • Jessica Macedo
  • Naiana Nana
  • Autumn Swanse
  • Trisha Pollydore
  • Sarah Villegas

Wellness

  • Elisa Alcantara
  • Eduarda Bezerra
  • Leonida Ciobu
  • Rayane Fogal
  • Camille Luz
  • Josy Alves Macedo
  • Isabelle Nunes
  • Maria Rita Penteado
  • Bruna Seredich
  • Wenqian Yang

Fit Model

  • Emily Chanel
  • Seojin Cheong
  • Jane Jones
  • Gabriela Queiroz

Pro Wheelchair

  • Gabriele Andriulli
  • James Berger
  • Josue Fabiano
  • Rajesh John
  • Harold Kelley
  • Mostafa Darvish Khezri
  • Karol Milewski
  • Kevin Secudino

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