Hidetada Yamagishi, a bodybuilder from Japan, stands 5’7″ (170 cm) tall and competes at a contest weight of around 215 lb (98 kg). He was born on June 30, 1973 and is 53 years old.
Career Record
- Total Results
- 57
- Wins
- 5
- Win Rate
- 8.8%
- Career
- 2005–2025
- Height
- 5’7″ (170 cm)
- Weight
- 215 lb (98 kg)
- Age
- 53
- Arnold Classic Titles
- 1
- Verified
- Sources
- 41
Hidetada Yamagishi was the first Japanese bodybuilder to compete at the Mr. Olympia and the first invited to the Arnold Classic. He competed for twenty-seven years and won the Arnold Classic 212 in 2016.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 57 professional contest results. It is published only where a career holds at least five, because below that a single placing moves the figure by twenty points or more.
Every professional season
Peak Year
2019 (2 wins)
Measured against Hidetada Yamagishi’s own seasons, not against the field. See the full peak window →
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2023
2025
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 2005
- Olympia Debut
- 2007
- First Win
- 2014
- Peak Year
- 2019
- Last Contest
- 2025
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 13 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 2009 | 9 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 2010 | 10 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 2011 | 10 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 2012 | 15 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
Data updated
Known for
The 2016 Arnold Classic in the capped division is the biggest title, and his best Olympia finish is third in 2015. Eleven Olympia appearances between 2007 and 2023.
The professional wins run from the Orlando Show of Champions in 2010 through the Tampa Pro in 2014 to the Europa Dallas and Monsterzym Pro in 2019, and he won the Masters Olympia 212 title in 2023.
Early career
He won the Japan Nationals in 2001 and 2002 and the Asian Amateur Championships in 2001 before turning professional, and seventy-two contests are recorded for him in total, most of them at professional shows.
Championship record
Where the titles came from
Counted from the same results table below: an appearance is one contest entered (in the years the Olympia also judged weight classes, one appearance can carry two placings), an Olympia title is the overall win in that division, and Top 3 counts first, second and third together. The last row is every professional contest on record for Hidetada Yamagishi.
212 Olympia
6Appearances
0Titles
1Top 3
Mr. Olympia
5Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3
Arnold Classic
8Appearances
1Title
2Top 3
Physique benchmark
How Hidetada Yamagishi measures up
Fat-free mass index turns the height and weight on this profile into one number for how much muscle a frame carries, so a shorter competitor is not flattered by a bodyweight comparison. The normalised figure adjusts it again to a standard height, which is the version worth ranking. Both assume the 6% body fat a competitor steps on stage at, because that is the only condition the recorded weight was taken in.
31.7FFMI
32.4Normalised FFMI
101stOf 316 measured men
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Lee Haney, at 32.1.
What this rank is not. This database holds a height and a weight for just 463 athletes, and they are overwhelmingly the ones somebody bothered to measure: 74 of them hold an Olympia title. Almost every competitor on record carries no measurement at all. The pool also mixes every division and era together, from the lightweight women’s classes to the open heavyweights, so it ranks size and nothing else. It says where Hidetada Yamagishi sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Hidetada Yamagishi, 57 in all. The table opens on the first 15 and expands in place from there. Nothing sits on a separate page. Won by names the winner of the division Hidetada Yamagishi competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
Showing 15 of 57 professional results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Hidetada Yamagishi those sources are MuscleMemory and NPC Contests. Open any contest above and that page names its own source and links to it where the source is still reachable. MuscleMemory is the exception: the archive we recorded those older shows from no longer answers at the addresses we hold, so it is credited by name and not offered as a link.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
15 results from amateur shows and other contests this archive does not class as professional. Every total on this page covers the professional career only, so these are listed here but never counted, and they have no contest page.
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Hidetada Yamagishi peak window
Hidetada Yamagishi division journey
Legacy
Being first matters more than a placing here. Japanese bodybuilding had no presence at the Olympia at all until Yamagishi qualified in 2007, and he was still competing at that level sixteen years later.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1998 to 2025.
His status as the first Japanese competitor at the Mr. Olympia and the Arnold Classic is carried from the biography previously held in our corpus.
Some contests appear twice in the table below because one result was recorded under two division labels. They are single contests.
In 21 meetings, Toney Freeman finished ahead of Hidetada Yamagishi 17 times to 4.
Opponents are ranked by how often they shared a stage and how big the stage was, not by reputation. A meeting is one contest where both competed in the same division and both were placed.
