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This is a list of female professional bodybuilders. All people listed here have an IFBB pro card. This list is incomplete; you can ...
Corinna "Cory" Everson (née Kneuer; born January 4, 1958) is an American female bodybuilding champion and actress. Everson won the Ms. Olympia contest six years in a row from 1984 to 1989. [ 1 ]
International Federation of BodyBuilding and Fitness (IFBB) professional female bodybuilding (mean; 1980–2004) [1]: Frequency: Annually [1]: Venue: Orange County Convention Center - West Concourse
Prior to 1977, bodybuilding had been considered strictly a male-oriented sport. Henry McGhee, described as the "primary architect of competitive female bodybuilding", was an employee of the Downtown Canton YMCA, carried a strong belief that women should share the opportunity to display their physiques and the results of their weight training the way men had done for years.
Shaw began attending the gym on her own, and her mother's training partner, a female bodybuilder, began advising her on muscle building. She said she had no desire at 17 to be a bodybuilder, instead wanting to be a fashion model, but she was not tall enough. [5] [6] [9] [10] [11]
2.2 Women. 2.2.1 Featherweight. 2.2.2 Middleweight. 3 See also. ... This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in weightlifting. Current program. Men. Featherweight
Iris Floyd Kyle (born Mildred Carter; [25] August 22, 1974) is an African-Indian American professional female bodybuilder. [26] [27] She is currently the most successful, female or male, professional bodybuilder ever.
At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), Campbell became the first British female weightlifter to win a medal at the Olympics, with a silver in the women's +87 kg event. [8] [9] [10] Later that year, she went on to earn a bronze medal at the World Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. [11] [12]