Speed Queen

FOR AS LONG AS SHE CAN REMEMBER, Cydney Gillon has been fast. “We had this school race called the Turkey Trot,” she recalls. “And I won it every single year until I broke my ankle one year—all the way from preschool through fifth grade.”

But that’s just kid stuff, right? Not exactly. Since those early days in the Atlanta suburb of Douglasville, USA, Gillon has made a habit of arriving at 23, and in 2017 became the youngest-ever Figure Olympia champ at 25. We’re sensing a trend here.