2001 Ms. Olympia

The 2001 Ms. Olympia contest is an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition and part of Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend 2001 was held on October 26, 2001, at the Mandalay Bay Arena in Paradise, Nevada. It was the 22nd Ms. Olympia competition held. Other events at the exhibition include the Mr. Olympia and Fitness Olympia contests.

Prize money

 * Overall - $10,000
 * 1st (Lightweight (LW)) - $10,000
 * 1st (Heavyweight (HW)) - $10,000
 * 2nd (LW) - $6,000
 * 2nd (HW) - $6,000
 * 3rd (LW) - $4,000
 * 3rd (HW) - $4,000

Total: $50,000

Individual posing

 * 1) Dayana Cadeau: Posing songs - Differences / Family Affair
 * 2) Renee Casella: Posing song - We Are
 * 3) Juliette Bergmann: Posing song - I've Never Been to Me
 * 4) Joanna Thomas: Posing song - I Ask of You
 * 5) Kim Harris: Posing song - Dance with Me
 * 6) Brenda Raganot: Posing song - Bootylicious
 * 7) Gayle Moher: Posing song - Desert Rose
 * 8) Angela Debatin: Posing song - Genie in a Bottle
 * 9) Fannie Barrios: Posing songs - You Can Leave Your Hat On / 20th Century Fox Fanfare / Soul Bossa Nova / Bootylicious / Lady Marmalade
 * 10) Andrulla Blanchette: Posing songs - War / The Greatest Love of All
 * 11) Vickie Gates: Posing songs - Slowly / One Minute Man / Lady Marmalade
 * 12) Lesa Lewis: Posing songs - Bad Boy for Life
 * 13) Betty Pariso: Posing song - To Love You More
 * 14) Valentina Chepiga: Posing song -
 * 15) Yaxeni Oriquen: Posing song - Fallin'
 * 16) Iris Kyle: Next Generation

Prejudging posing
Call Outs from Round One: Lightweights


 * Cadeau - Blachette - Bergman
 * Raganot - Blachette - Moher
 * Casella - Raganot - Harris
 * Debatin - Barios - Thomas
 * Bergman - Harris - Blanchette
 * Casella - Debatin - Thomas
 * Raganot - Moher - Harris
 * Barrios - Moher - Cadeau
 * Harris - Moher - Casella
 * Bergman - Blachette
 * Cadaeu - Bergman - Blanchette

Call Outs from Round Two: Lightweights


 * Cadeau - Blachette - Bergman
 * Casella - Cadeau - Raganot
 * Casella - Moher - Barrios
 * Thomas - Harris - Debatin
 * Debatin - Raganot - Moher

Call Outs from Round One: Heavyweights

Call Outs from Round Two: Heavyweights
 * Chepiga - Gates - Lewis
 * Kyle - Oriquen - Lewis
 * Foster - Pariso - Lewis
 * Gates - Oriquen - Kyle


 * Oriquen - Gates - Kyle
 * Lewis - Chepiga - Pariso
 * Gates - Kyle - Oriquen
 * Chepiga - Kyle - Oriquen

Scorecard
Judges: 1-Rockell 2-C.Sanchez 3-Weinberger 4-Frig 5-Beckles 6-Calascione 7-Baldantoni 8-Kemper 9-Ourama 10-Feinstein

Comparison to previous Olympia results:
 * +12 - Juliette Bergmann
 * +4 - Iris Kyle
 * Same - Vickie Gates
 * +1 - Yaxeni Oriquen-Garcia
 * -3 - Valentina Chepiga
 * Same - Lesa Lewis
 * -1 - Andrulla Blanchette
 * +11 - Dayana Cadeau
 * -2 - Brenda Reganot
 * -6 - Gayle Moher
 * -3 - Renee Casella

Attended

 * 6th Ms. Olympia attended - Vickie Gates
 * 5th Ms. Olympia attended - Juliette Bergmann, Andrulla Blanchette, and Lesa Lewis
 * 4th Ms. Olympia attended - Valentina Chepiga and Yaxeni Oriquen-Garcia
 * 3rd Ms. Olympia attended - Renee Casella, Iris Kyle, and Brenda Raganot
 * 2nd Ms. Olympia attended - Dayana Cadeau and Gayle Moher
 * 1st Ms. Olympia attended - Fannie Barrios, Angela Debatin, Kim Harris, Betty Pariso, and Joanna Thomas
 * Previous year Olympia attendees who did not attend - Th-resa Bostick, Denise Hoshor, Cathy LeFrançois, and Jennifer McVicar

Notable events

 * Juliette Bergmann won her 1st lightweight and overall Ms. Olympia title. She had not competed since the 1989 World Pro Championships and was considered a dark horse competitor.
 * There was controversy over the 2001 Ms. Olympia overall title being awarded to Juliette, with some claiming the move was political. For the past 10 years, she has been a still active International Federation of BodyBuilding and Fitness (IFBB) international judge, working alongside the same judges who decided the outcome of 2001 Ms. Olympia.
 * There was no scoresheet for the overall. Jim Manion counted the votes and verbally communicated who the winner was, but nothing was written down. According to Jim, the 8 judges voted for Juliette Bergmann, while 2 judges voted for Iris Kyle.
 * This was the only Ms. Olympia where the lightweight Ms. Olympia title winner beat the heavyweight Ms. Olympia title winner to win the overall Ms. Olympia title.
 * Iris Kyle won her 1st heavyweight Ms. Olympia title. At the end of the fourth round, both Iris Kyle and Vickie Gates were tied in the scorecard at 43 points. Iris won due to the IFBB tie breaking rule that the discarded highs and lows from all three previous rounds will be used to break the tie, with her getting 12 first place votes, while Vickie got 9 first place votes.
 * This was the slimmest margin of victory for a Ms. Olympia heavyweight title.
 * This was the only Ms. Olympia where the heavyweight Ms. Olympia title was won through a IFBB tie breaking rule.
 * The two emcee of the 2001 Ms. Olympia was Tim Wilkins and Monica Brant.
 * The overall posedown song was It's My Life by Bon Jovi.
 * The top three heavyweight and top three lightweight posedown song was Tom Sawyer by Rush.