Arnold Classic winners

Chinedu Andrew Obiekea is the birth name of the competitor known as Andrew Jacked, a fact noted in event coverage from Muscle & Fitness dated March 7, 2026. (muscleandfitness.com) The same Muscle & Fitness report lists the Open top-five finishers as Andrew Jacked, Nick Walker, Hadi Choopan, Martin Fitzwater, and Brandon Curry, and notes Jacked received the Ed Corney Best Poser award with a $10,000 prize while Nick Walker earned the Franco Columbu Most Muscular award and its $10,000 prize. (muscleandfitness.com) Classic Physique finals were affected by a late absence when reigning titleholder Mike Sommerfeld could not make the division’s weight cap, leaving Wesley Vissers and Matheus Menegate as the primary contenders and Andrea Mammoli as the $10,000 Ed Corney Best Poser winner. (fitnessvolt.com) The Arnold Strongman Classic spanned March 6–7 and featured nine athletes across six events; final scoring showed Mitchell Hooper with 36 points and runner-up Austin Andrade with 35 points, a one-point margin that made this Hooper’s narrowest Arnold victory to date. (fitnessvolt.com) Hooper’s event-by-event performance included a winning Elephant Bar deadlift of 445 kg (981 lb) in the opening event, a mark listed on the official results and event write-ups from the Strongman coverage and Wikipedia. (powerliftingtechnique.com) The three-day Arnold Sports Festival ran March 6–8 at venues including the Greater Columbus Convention Center and Battelle Grand, and the expo floor featured a high-traffic YoungLA activation with a YoungLA x Gorilla Mind “Young LAtte” collaboration, plus celebrity appearances from Jon Jones, Jay Cutler, Alex Eubank and other fitness creators that drew thousands of attendees. (sportingnews.com)