Akim Williams won his first professional show in 2016, placed sixth at the Mr. Olympia in 2020, and has been competing since 2003. Very few open competitors have lasted that long.
Known for
The professional wins run across nine years: the Tampa Pro in 2016 and again in 2022, the Chicago Pro in 2020, the Puerto Rico Pro in 2021, and both the Toronto Pro Supershow and the Bigman Spain Pro in 2024.
His best Olympia finish is sixth, in 2020. He has competed at the Olympia in 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024, and improved from fifteenth to sixth across the first four.
Early career
He first appears in 2003, winning the heavyweight classes at the South Carolina State and Metrolina championships. It took ten years to turn professional, which he did by winning the super heavyweights at the 2013 North American Championships.
He was still competing in 2026, twenty-three years after his first recorded contest.
Championship record
Championship appearances
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 Akim Williams.
Mr. Olympia
7Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3
Arnold Classic
7Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Akim Williams, 46 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 Akim Williams competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
Showing 15 of 46 professional results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Akim Williams those sources are NPC Contests, MuscleMemory, Arnold Sports and IFBB Pro League. 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.
Every professional season
Peak Year
2016 (2 wins)
Measured against Akim Williams’s own seasons, not against the field.
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 2014
- First Win
- 2016
- Last Contest
- 2026
Akim Williams at the Olympia, year by year
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 15 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 2019 | 9 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 2020 | 6 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 2021 | 9 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 2024 | 10 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
Data updated
Physique benchmark
How Akim Williams 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.
35.6FFMI
35.7Normalised FFMI
35thOf 316 measured men
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Dorian Yates, at 35.6.
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 Akim Williams sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
14 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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Legacy
The open class chews through competitors. Williams turned professional at 29 after a decade as an amateur and was still qualifying for Olympias in his late thirties, which is a rarer achievement than a single high placing.
In 12 meetings, Brandon Curry finished ahead of Akim Williams 10 times to 2.
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.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover his record from 2003 onward. He is an active competitor, so this page changes as results are added.
His 2016 Tampa Pro win appears twice under two contest names, and his 2022 Olympia row carries no placement in our source data.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 46 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.
