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Ms. Olympia 2026: the field, by the numbers

Andrea Shaw goes for a seventh straight title tonight in Las Vegas. Only Iris Kyle has ever won more in a row. Here is the field, by the record.

By SteelQueens Editorial · Sep 25, 2026 · 3 min read

Ten women are entered in Ms. Olympia tonight in Las Vegas. One of them has won the last six.

Andrea Shaw has won every Ms. Olympia since 2020. Six in a row is where two of the greatest careers in the sport stopped. Cory Everson won six straight from 1984 to 1989 and retired undefeated, and Lenda Murray won six straight from 1990 to 1995 before Kim Chizevsky beat her in 1996. Only Iris Kyle has won more in a row: nine, from 2006 to 2014, on her way to ten titles in total.

A seventh title tonight would put Shaw alone in second place for consecutive wins, and third on the all-time list, behind Kyle (10) and Murray (8).

The record against her

Every row is a show where Shaw and a woman in tonight’s field both competed, from the shows on our record.

Athlete Meetings with Shaw Result At this show before
Nadia Capotosto 5 Shaw 5–0 5th in 2024, 8th in 2025
Leyvina Rodrigues Barros 4 Shaw 4–0 15th in 2022, 7th in 2024, 3rd in 2025
Ashley Lynnette Jones 3 Shaw 3–0 3rd in 2024, 2nd in 2025
Meghan Morrison 1 Shaw 1–0 debut

Of the women in this field who have met Shaw, none has beaten her, on our record. The closest anyone has come on this stage is Jones: third in 2024, then second last year, one place higher each time.

The names to watch

Paula Ranta has never competed at Ms. Olympia, yet she has the third-highest Iron Score in the field, after Shaw and Capotosto: 15 shows, 6 wins, 12 podiums. She has never met Shaw on stage.

Meghan Morrison is also making her debut, and she has already met Ranta three times. Morrison won all three.

Nadia Capotosto has 7 wins in 16 shows, the most wins in the field after Shaw. Tonight is her fourth Ms. Olympia, and she is the woman who has faced Shaw most often.

Leyvina Rodrigues Barros was fifteenth at her first Ms. Olympia in 2022, seventh in 2024 and third in 2025. She is 2–0 against Capotosto and has one win each over Opre, Morrison and Barbara De Freitas Moojen. She is also 0–3 against Jones and 0–4 against Shaw.

What this is, and what it is not

These numbers are a record of shows that have already happened. They are not a prediction. The judges tonight will see a physique none of these tables can measure. If the Olympia score cards look like every federation score card we have checked, they will show totals and placings, but no judge names and no individual judge’s marks. The full field, with every head-to-head in the division, is on the Ms. Olympia 2026 page, and it will be updated with the result.

Title history: Ms. Olympia, Wikipedia. Field: IFBB Pro League entry list. Placings and head-to-head: SteelQueens record, sourced per show on each athlete’s page.

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