Timeline
- 1995Born on 9 February in Rio Branco, Acre, in the western Amazon.His nickname, O Dinossauro do Acre, comes from the state.
- 2009Begins training at fourteen, using outdoor calisthenics rather than a gym because of the cost.
- 2016Finishes second at a regional championship in Men's Physique.
- 2017Second again at the regional championship, still in Men's Physique.
- 2018Wins Mr. Olympia Brasil and earns his IFBB pro card in Classic Physique.
- 2021Wins Muscle Contest Brasil, finishes second at the Europa Pro, and places fifth on his Mr. Olympia debut.
- 2022Second at the Arnold Classic and second at the Mr. Olympia, behind Chris Bumstead. Marries Vitoria Viana in February.
- 2023Wins the Arnold Classic Ohio, his first major international title, and finishes second at the Mr. Olympia again.
- 2024Second at the Arnold Classic and fourth at the Mr. Olympia, the worst placing of his professional career.
- 2025Wins the Mr. Olympia Classic Physique title in October, beating Mike Sommerfeld by one point, and becomes the first Brazilian man to hold it.
- 2026Finishes third at the Mr. Olympia in Las Vegas on 25 September, behind the new champion Niall Darwen and Mike Sommerfeld.
Who Ramon Dino is
Ramon Dino is a Brazilian professional bodybuilder who competes in the Classic Physique division of the IFBB. His full name is Ramon Rocha Queiroz, he was born in Rio Branco in the state of Acre in 1995, and he is the first Brazilian man to win the Mr. Olympia in his category. In Brazil he is known as O Dinossauro do Acre, the dinosaur of Acre, a nickname that has followed him since his amateur years.[1][2]
The achievement matters beyond the trophy. Bodybuilding's open division has been dominated by American and Middle Eastern athletes for decades, and a Brazilian winning a Mr. Olympia title in any division is a first. Dino did it in the category that is judged on proportion and presentation rather than on size, which is also the category where Brazilian athletes have been most competitive for the past decade.[2][3]
His career has a clear shape: an amateur who came through regional shows in the Amazon, a professional who spent four years losing to one man, and a champion who then lost his title in his first defence. There is no part of that story that was easy, and the sequence is a better guide to what he is as an athlete than any single placing.[2][3]
Acre, calisthenics and the start at fourteen
Dino grew up in Rio Branco, the capital of Acre, one of the smallest and most remote states in Brazil. The region is at the western edge of the Amazon, closer to Peru and Bolivia than to Sao Paulo, and the bodybuilding infrastructure that exists in the south of the country does not exist there. He began training at fourteen, and the reason he began with calisthenics rather than weights was money: his family could not afford a gym membership, so he trained with his own body weight outdoors.[1]
That origin is not a marketing detail. Calisthenics builds a specific kind of physique, one with proportion and control rather than raw mass, and the division Dino eventually specialised in rewards exactly those qualities. An athlete who spent his formative years doing pull ups and dips arrives at Classic Physique with a different base from one who spent them under a barbell, and the difference shows in how he holds a pose.[1][2]
He competed locally as a teenager and placed second at his regional championship in both 2016 and 2017, in the Men's Physique division. Men's Physique is judged on the upper body in board shorts, and it was the standard entry point for young Brazilian competitors at the time. Two second places in two years is the kind of record that either ends a career or clarifies it, and for Dino it did the second: he moved to Classic Physique, where the judging rewards legs and proportion, and the results changed immediately.[2]
The pro card in 2018
In 2018 he entered Mr. Olympia Brasil, one of the largest and most competitive amateur shows in the country, and won it. The prize was an IFBB pro card in Classic Physique, which is the licence that turns an amateur into a professional and allows an athlete to enter the qualifying circuit for the Mr. Olympia.[1][2]
The step from amateur to professional is where most Brazilian bodybuilders stall. A pro card buys eligibility, not income: an athlete has to pay his own travel, entry fees and accommodation to compete in shows in the United States, Europe and the Gulf, and the prize money at most of those events does not cover the cost. Dino spent 2019 and 2020 building a physique that could compete internationally before he entered a professional show, which is why his debut came three years after the card.[2]
When he did debut, in 2021, he did it in a hurry. He won Muscle Contest Brasil, finished second at the Europa Pro, and went to the Mr. Olympia in the same year, where he placed fifth. Fifth at a first Olympia is the result that tells the sport an athlete is coming: the judging panel has seen him, he has been compared directly with the best in the division, and the next season's expectations are set.[2]
Four years behind Chris Bumstead
The defining rivalry of Dino's career is with Chris Bumstead, the Canadian who won the Classic Physique title six times between 2019 and 2024. Dino finished second to him at the 2022 and 2023 Mr. Olympia, and second at the 2022 Arnold Classic before beating the field at the 2023 edition of the same show. For four seasons he was the closest challenger in the division and never quite the winner.[1][2]
The 2022 Olympia was Bumstead's fourth title, and Dino was the runner up. The 2023 edition repeated the result, and by then the pattern was established: Bumstead had the more complete physique, Dino had the better legs and the more dramatic presentation, and the judges consistently preferred the first. Bodybuilding rivalries are usually settled by a specific body part or a specific pose, and this one was settled by the upper body.[2]
The 2024 Olympia broke the pattern in the wrong direction. Dino placed fourth, his worst professional result, in the edition where Bumstead won his sixth and final title before retiring. A fourth place after two second places reads as a decline, and it was reported that way. What it actually did was remove the assumption that he was the permanent runner up, which turned out to matter in 2025.[2][3]
The Arnold Classic title in 2023 is the part of this period that belongs to him alone. Winning in Columbus, Ohio, against a field that included the best of the division is a major international title, and it is the credential he held before he held the Olympia.[1][2]
2025: the title
In October 2025, with Bumstead retired, Dino won the Mr. Olympia Classic Physique title. He beat the German athlete Mike Sommerfeld by a single point on the scorecards, with the American Terrence Ruffin also on the podium. The margin is the smallest the division has produced in years, and it reflects how close the top three were on the night rather than any single weakness in the winner.[2][3]
The win made him the first Brazilian man to hold a Mr. Olympia title. Brazil has produced world class bodybuilders for decades and a large audience for the sport, but the title had always gone elsewhere. The Brazilian press treated it as a national sporting event rather than a niche result, which is the measure of how much the division's audience had grown outside the United States.[2][3]
The one point margin is worth dwelling on, because it defines what the title was. Dino did not win 2025 by transforming his physique or by arriving with a body nobody could match. He won by being slightly better on the night than a rival he had lost to before, in a division where the top three are separated by details. That is the nature of Classic Physique, and it is also why the title changed hands again twelve months later.[3]
2026: bronze and a new champion
The 2026 Mr. Olympia was held in Las Vegas from 24 to 27 September, with the Classic Physique finals at the Orleans Arena on the evening of 25 September. Dino came in as the defending champion and finished third. Niall Darwen of the United Kingdom won his first title, Mike Sommerfeld took second, and Wesley Vissers was fourth.[3]
The result makes Dino the third different Classic Physique champion in three years, after Bumstead's run ended and Dino's single year on top. A division that was dominated by one athlete for six years has become competitive at the top, and the judging has moved with it: Darwen won on presentation and proportion rather than on the mass that had defined the Bumstead era.[3]
For Dino the placing is not a collapse. Third at the Olympia is a podium finish, and he was in the final comparison with the winner. But it does settle the question of whether 2025 was the start of a run or a single year at the top, and the answer so far is the second. At 31 he is not old for the division, and the athletes ahead of him are not going anywhere.[2][3]
His record at the Olympia now reads fifth, second, second, fourth, first and third across six appearances. That is one of the most consistent records in the division's short history, and it is also a record with a single win in it, which is the fact any assessment of his career has to start from.[2][3]
What Classic Physique asks for
Classic Physique was created to bring back the look of the 1970s and 1980s, when bodybuilders were judged on proportion, symmetry and posing rather than on maximum size. Competitors wear posing trunks rather than board shorts, perform a posing routine, and are held to a weight limit that is set against their height. Dino's limit in the category is 103 kilograms, about 227 pounds.[2]
The weight cap is the division's defining constraint and the reason it produces a particular kind of athlete. A competitor cannot simply add mass to win, because the scale will disqualify him, so the work goes into condition, shape and the distribution of muscle. Dino competes at around 104 kilograms according to Bharat Fast, which is at the ceiling of what the division allows at his height, and his off season weight of about 114 kilograms is the margin he has to cut back each year.[1][2]
This is also why the division suits a body that was built with calisthenics. A gymnastic base produces wide shoulders, a narrow waist and controlled movement, which is exactly the silhouette the judges reward. Dino's presentation, which is more theatrical than most of his rivals, is a response to the same rule: when everyone on stage has a similar amount of muscle, the athlete who can hold a pose and sell it gets the decision.[1][2]
The division's audience has grown quickly because of that visual logic. Classic Physique photographs well, it looks like the bodybuilding that general audiences remember from the Arnold era, and its athletes are recognisable in a way that the open division's competitors often are not. Dino's Brazilian following is built on that, and on the fact that he is the first from his country to reach the top of it.[2][3]
Sponsors, training and the Brazilian market
Dino's sponsorship history is short and documented. He was with Growth Suplementos from 2020 to 2021 and has been with Max Titanium since 2021. Max Titanium is one of the largest supplement brands in Brazil, and the partnership is the commercial base of his career: prize money in bodybuilding is small relative to the cost of competing, and a supplement contract is what makes a professional career viable.[2]
His training is built on the standard combination that the division rewards, heavy compound movements for strength and size, isolation work for the details, and a long contest preparation that brings the weight down to the limit without losing the muscle. Bharat Fast describes the programme in general terms, and the general terms are accurate: there is no secret method in professional bodybuilding, only consistency over years and a diet that is followed without exception.[1]
The Brazilian market is the part of his career that is least understood outside the sport. Brazil has a large bodybuilding audience, a strong domestic supplement industry and a circuit of regional shows that produces professional athletes every year. Dino is the first of that generation to win a Mr. Olympia, and the effect at home has been compared to what a football title does for a small club: the sport becomes visible to people who had never watched it.[2][3]
He also has a YouTube channel where he posts training and preparation footage. For a bodybuilder in a division judged on appearance, video is the most natural medium, and it is how the audience that cannot attend a show in Las Vegas follows the preparation week by week.[1]
Family and private life
Dino married Vitoria Viana Queiroz on 6 February 2022. Bharat Fast reports that the couple have two children, and that he is a practising Christian whose faith is part of how he describes his approach to the sport. The marriage is public in the way that a Brazilian athlete's family life usually is, which is to say that it appears in the coverage and is not discussed by him in detail.[1]
Beyond that, very little of his private life is documented in English language sources. The Portuguese language coverage is larger and this entry does not read it, which is a real limitation rather than a mark of discretion.[1][2]
The one personal detail that recurs in profiles is the calisthenics story, and it recurs because he tells it: a boy in Acre who could not afford a gym and trained on outdoor bars. It is the kind of origin that the sport likes, and in his case it is also the technical explanation for the physique that won.[1][2]
What has not been confirmed
His net worth is not public. Bharat Fast estimates it at about 1.5 million dollars, a figure that is not traceable to any disclosure, filing or interview and that sits oddly against the economics of professional bodybuilding, where even a Mr. Olympia winner's prize money is modest and the income comes from contracts. The estimate should be read as a profile site's guess, not as a record.[1]
His height and weight are reported by Bharat Fast as 180 centimetres and 104 kilograms in competition, with 114 kilograms off season. The Olympia's own weight limit for his category is 103 kilograms according to Wikipedia, so the 104 kilogram competition figure cannot be exact, and the two sources are describing the same number from different sides. This entry gives the category limit as the reliable figure and the rest as reported.[1][2]
The claim that he began training at fourteen is his own account and appears in the profiles. There is no independent record of his first gym or his first competition before 2016, and the regional results from that year onward are the earliest verified part of his career.[1][2]
Several profiles still describe him as the runner up in Classic Physique or as a challenger who has not won a title. Those pages were written before October 2025 and have not been updated. This entry follows the 2025 result, which is confirmed by the sport's own coverage and by the record of the 2026 edition, where he entered as the defending champion.[2][3]
Finally, the 2026 season beyond the Olympia is not documented here. Whether he competed in the Arnold Classic or any other show in 2026 is not settled by the sources used for this entry, and the placing at the Olympia is the only 2026 result recorded.[3]
Questions about this entry
Who is Ramon Dino?
Ramon Dino is a Brazilian bodybuilder from Rio Branco in Acre, known in the sport as O Dinossauro do Acre, the dinosaur of Acre.
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Ramon Dino is a Brazilian bodybuilder from Rio Branco in Acre, known in the sport as O Dinossauro do Acre, the dinosaur of Acre.
When was Ramon Dino born?
Ramon Dino was born in 9 February 1995, Rio Branco.
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