Plus Awesome: 50 Female Olympic Athletes with High BMIs

The London 2012 Olympics website has limitations – like only offering up one page of athletes per sport. So I can’t come up with every single female athlete with a high BMI – but I was able to find around 50, from as diverse a selection of countries that I could.

So what does this demonstrate? First, that BMI is NOT a measure of fitness. Every woman on this list is a freaking Olympian- and no tsking doctor or number on the scale will ever take that away.

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AthleteSportCountryHeightWeight
AthleteSportCountryHeightWeight
Sarah RoblesWeightliftingUSA5 ft 10 in275 lbs
Tetyana DorokhovaArcheryUkraine5 ft 5 in141 lbs
Natalia LesniakArcheryPoland5 ft 5 in163 lbs
Nioun Chin Elodie Li Yuk LoBeach VolleyballMauritius5 ft 8 in163 lbs
Marina VolnovaBoxingKazakhstan5 ft 7 in
Hannah DavisCanoe SprintAustralia5 ft 6 in154 lbs
Naomi FloodCanoe SprintAustralia5 ft 9 in172 lbs
Magalie PottierCyclingFrance5 ft 5 in154 lbs
Victoria BaranovaCyclingRussian Federation5 ft 2 in132 lbs
Clair SandieCyclingFrance5ft 3 in130 lbs

AthleteSportCountryHeightWeight
AthleteSportCountryHeightWeight
Angee GonzalezCyclingVenezuela5ft 2 in132 lbs
Kristina VogelCyclingGermany5 ft 3 in137 lbs
Anissa KhelfaouiFencingAlgeria5 ft 3 in139 lobs
Sofya VelikayaFencingRussian Federation5 ft 7 in148 lbs
Sophie WilliamsFencingGreat Britain5 ft 4 in132 lbs
Tenneal AtardHockeyAustralia5 ft 3 in132 lbs
Floortje EngelsHockeyNetherlands5 ft 8 in154 lbs
Maria Suelen AlthemanJudoBrazil5 ft 9 in172 lbs
Cecilia BlancoJudoSpain5 ft 7 in154 lbs
Giovanna BlancoJudoVenezuela5 ft 9 in265 lbs

NameSportCountryHeight Weight
NameSportCountryHeight Weight
Onix Cortes AldamaJudoCuba152 lbs
Gulzhan IssanovaJudoKazakhstan5 ft 11 in172 lbs
Elena IvashchenkoJudoRussian Federation6 ft 0 in227 lbs
Iryna KindzerskaJudoUkraine5 ft 11 in276 lbs
Katarzyna KlysJudoPoland5 ft 8 in154 lbs
Gulsah KocaturkJudoTurkey5 ft 10 in298 lbs
Hana MareghniJudoTunisia5 ft 8 in170 lbs
Marijana MiskovicJudoCroatia5 ft 5 in139 lbs
Adysangela MonizJudoCape Verde5 ft f in231 lbs
Telma MonteiroJudoPortugal5 ft 3 in126 lbs

NameSportCountryHeightWeight
NameSportCountryHeightWeight
Kelita ZupancicJudoCanada5 ft 7 in154 lbs
Anastasiya ProkopenkoModern PentathlonBelarus5 ft 4 in130 lbs
Chantal AchterbergRowingNetherlands5 ft 7 in159 lbs
Claudia BelderbosRowingNetherlands5 ft 9 in159 lbs
Renee ChattertonRowingAustralia6 ft 1 in172 lbs
Anna AgrafiotiSailingGreece5 ft 10 in168 lbs
Nina CurtisSailingAustralia5 ft 6 in150 lbs
Aminata Aboubakar YacoubSwimmingCongo5 ft f in150 lbs
Lindsey BergVolleyballUSA5 ft 8 in170 lbs
Andrea Blas MartinezWater PoloSpain5 ft 8 in179 lbs

NameSportCountryHeightWeight
NameSportCountryHeightWeight
Khalil Mahmoud K Abir AbdelrahmanWeightliftingEgypt5 ft 4 in165 lbs
Esmat AhmedWeightliftingEgypt5 ft 5 in152 lbs
Marie-Eve Beauchemin-NadeauWeightliftingCanada5 ft 5 in152 lbs
Maria AbakumovaJavelin ThrowRussian Federation5 ft 10 in187 lbs
Neide BarbosaHandballAngola5 ft 10 in172 lbs
Marthe KoalaWomen's 100 M HurdlesBurkina Faso5 ft 9 in150 lbs
Amanda BingsonWomen's Hammer ThrowUSA5 ft 5 in201 lbs
Jillian Camarena-WilliamsWomen's Shot PutUSA5 ft 10 in249 lbs
Nina Kamto NjitamHandballFrance5 ft 10 in163 lbs
Delphine ReauShootingFrance5 ft 7 in159 lbs

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    There is also Holley Mangold, Weightlifting, USA. 5 ft 8 in, 346 lbs