Darrem Charles has 93 professional contests on record, from 1992 to 2023, and won 19 of them. He is from Trinidad and won nine times as a professional in 2016 alone, at forty-eight.
Known for
The 2016 season is one of the most productive in this database: nine professional classic physique wins in a single year, including the Wings of Strength Chicago Pro, the Toronto Pro Supershow and the Puerto Rico Pro. He was fifth at the Olympia that year.
The open-division career before it produced the Toronto Pro in 2004 and 2005, the New York Pro in 2005, the Atlantic City Pro in 2006 and the Montreal Pro in 2007.
Early career
His record opens in 1989 in Trinidad and he was runner-up at the World Amateur Championships in 1990 and 1991. He first competed at the Olympia in 1995 and last in 2017, twenty-two years apart.
Thirteen Olympia appearances and close to a hundred contests make this one of the longest and heaviest records in the corpus.
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 Darrem Charles.
Mr. Olympia
11Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3
Classic Physique Olympia
2Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3
Arnold Classic
10Appearances
0Titles
0Top 3
All contests on record
93Contests
19Wins
41Top 3
Professional results
Every professional contest result on record for Darrem Charles, 93 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 Darrem Charles competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
Showing 15 of 93 professional results.
Showing 15 of 19 professional results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Darrem Charles 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.
Every professional season
Peak Year
2016 (9 wins)
Measured against Darrem Charles’s own seasons, not against the field.
1992
1995
1996
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2016
2017
2023
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1992
- Olympia Debut
- 1995
- First Win
- 2002
- Peak Year
- 2016
- Last Contest
- 2023
Darrem Charles at the Olympia, year by year
| Year | Placement | Division |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 15 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 1998 | 13 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 2001 | 18 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 2002 | 16 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 2003 | 7 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 2004 | 10 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 2005 | 9 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 2006 | 14 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 2007 | 12 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 2008 | 11 | Men’s Open Bodybuilding |
| 2016 | 5 | Classic Physique |
| 2017 | 13 | Classic Physique |
Data updated
Physique benchmark
How Darrem Charles 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.
27.0FFMI
27.3Normalised FFMI
219thOf 316 measured men
The closest Olympia champion on that measure is Frank Zane, at 27.5.
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 Darrem Charles sits among the athletes we hold measurements for, not among competitors.
Amateur and other shows not counted above
6 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
Charles never contended for the Olympia and outlasted almost everyone who did. Winning nine times as a professional in your late forties, in a division created after your career started, is a different achievement from a title and a rarer one.
In 18 meetings, Ronnie Coleman finished ahead of Darrem Charles 16 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 1989 onward.
His 2009 Olympia row carries no placement in our source data.
Some contests appear twice in the table below because one result was recorded under two division labels. They are single contests.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 93 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.
