Cydney Gillon

Cydney Gillon is an American IFBB professional figure and fitness competitor, born on September 14, 1992. She is the second African-American woman to win the IFBB Figure Olympia and the first competitor to win it eight times in a row, taking the title every year from 2017 to 2024. Before her bodybuilding career she studied psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also ran for the track team from 2010 to 2014. Outside the figure stage she was a contestant on the television series Survivor: Kaoh Rong in 2016, finishing fourth after losing a fire-making tie-breaker to Aubry Bracco and lasting 37 days, and she later took part in the second season of Beast Games, where she was eliminated in the obstacle course of the third episode.