Prejudging Round: Judges evaluated contestants on symmetry, muscularity, and conditioning, focusing on overall physique balance, proportion, muscle size, and definition.
Finals Round: Contestants presented their choreographed posing routines to music, emphasizing creativity, presentation, and stage presence. The final posedown followed, allowing for direct comparisons among the top contestants.
This was Iris Kyle's 10th overall Olympia win, thus breaking her own previous world record of nine overall Olympia wins. This makes her the most successful professional bodybuilder in the history of both male and female professional bodybuilding. This was also Iris's 9th consecutive Ms. Olympia win, thus surpassing Ronnie Coleman and Lee Haney record of eight consecutive Olympia wins.
Iris announced after her 10th overall Olympia win that she will be retiring from bodybuilding.
The top three, Iris, Alina Popa and Debi Laszewski, repeated their top three placings from the 2013 Ms. Olympia, which was a first in Ms. Olympia history.
This was the last Ms. Olympia until the 2020 Ms. Olympia.
1 In the event of a tie, the competitor with the best top five contest placings will be awarded the qualification. If both competitors have the same contest placings, than both will qualify for the Olympia.
