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Jose Carlos Santos is a Men's 212 Bodybuilding competitor from Brazil.
15 career wins
Jose Carlos Santos
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Career Record
- Total Results
- 27
- Wins
- 15
- Win Rate
- 55.6%
- Career
- 1997–2014
- Division
- Men's 212 Bodybuilding
- Country
- Brazil
- Verified
- Sources
- 3
Jose Carlos Santos won the World Amateur Championships bantamweight title six times between 1997 and 2007, and the World Games in 2005. He is Brazilian and never competed at a Mr. Olympia.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 27 recorded contest results. It is published only where a career holds at least five, because below that a single placing moves the figure by twenty points or more.
Every season on record
Peak Year 2013 (3 wins)
Measured against Jose Carlos Santos’s own seasons, not against the field.
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1997
- Peak Year
- 2013
- Last Contest
- 2014
Known for
Six world titles in the smallest class, in 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2007, with the World Games title in 2005 alongside the fifth of them.
He was runner-up or third at the same World Championships in 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010, so for fourteen years he was almost always on its podium.
Early career
The later record moves to the Arnold amateur circuit: the Arnold Amateur in 2008 and 2011, the Arnold Amateur Europe in 2011 and 2012, and the Arnold Amateur Brasil in 2013, plus a masters world title the same year.
Twenty-seven contests are recorded between 1997 and 2014 and he won fifteen of them.
Championship record
Championship appearances
Counted from the same results table below: an appearance is one recorded placing at that series, a title is a first place, and Top 3 counts first, second and third together. The last row is every contest on record for Jose Carlos Santos, amateur shows included.
Arnold Classic
7Appearances
6Titles
7Top 3
All contests on record
27Contests
15Wins
26Top 3
All results
Every contest result on record for Jose Carlos Santos, 27 in all. The table opens on the first 15 and expands in place from there. Nothing sits on a separate page. Won by names the winner of the division Jose Carlos Santos competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | World Amateur Championships | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #11 | Nam Kyoung Yun |
| 2013 | Arnold Amateur Brasil | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2013 | Arnold Amateur Europe | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2013 | World Amateur Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 2012 | Arnold Amateur | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #3 | Ilya Nazin |
| 2012 | Arnold Amateur Europe | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2012 | World Amateur Championships | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #2 | Igor Kocis |
| 2011 | Arnold Amateur | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2011 | Arnold Amateur Europe | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2010 | World Amateur Championships | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #3 | Mahmut Irmak |
| 2008 | Arnold Amateur | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2008 | South American Amateur Championships | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2008 | World Amateur Championships | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | #2 | Mohamed Osman |
| 2007 | World Amateur Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2006 | World Amateur Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Sazali Abdul Samad |
| 2005 | World Amateur Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2005 | World Games | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2004 | World Amateur Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Sazali Abdul Samad |
| 2003 | World Amateur Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Anwar El Amawy |
| 2002 | World Amateur Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2001 | World Amateur Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 2001 | World Games | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Anwar El Amawy |
| 2000 | World Amateur Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Sazali Abdul Samad |
| 1999 | World Amateur Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1998 | World Amateur Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #2 | Anwar El Amawy |
| 1997 | World Amateur Championships | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #1 | Winner |
| 1997 | World Games | Men's Open Bodybuilding | #3 | Anwar El Amawy |
Showing 15 of 27 recorded results.
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Jose Carlos Santos that source is MuscleMemory. Open any contest above and that page names its own source and links to it where the source is still reachable. That archive no longer answers at the addresses we hold, so it is credited by name here and not offered as a link.
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Legacy
Fifteen wins from twenty-seven contests, six of them world titles, and no Olympia appearance because the circuit he competed on does not lead there. Brazilian amateur bodybuilding has produced several records like this and none of them are written up.
Sources
Competition placings on this page come from our own contest database and cover 1997 to 2014.
These are amateur world championships rather than IFBB professional contests.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 13 meetings, Jose Carlos Santos finished ahead of Anwar El Amawy 8 times to 5.
Opponents are ranked by how often they shared a stage and how big the stage was, not by reputation. A meeting is one contest where both competed in the same division and both were placed.
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