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Rafael Vera Diaz is a bodybuilder from Puerto Rico.
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Career Record
- Total Results
- 10
- Wins
- 3
- Win Rate
- 30%
- Career
- 1998–2015
- Division
- Other Divisions
- Country
- Puerto Rico
- Verified
- Sources
- 2
Rafael Vera Diaz is a Puerto Rican bodybuilder who competed in masters classes for seventeen years and won world titles in two different decades. Every one of his ten recorded contests is masters competition, and he was still winning at 65-plus.
Win rate here is first-place finishes as a share of all 10 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
Olympia
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Other
- Pro Debut
- 1998
- First Win
- 2002
- Last Contest
- 2015
Known for
Two World Amateur Championships, in 2002 and again in 2006, and a European Amateur Championships title in 2015. The gap between the first and last of those is thirteen years, and he moved up through the masters age classes across it: 50-plus in the early 2000s, 60-plus from 2006, and 65-plus by 2015.
Early career
He first appears in 1998, taking third at the World Championships. Runner-up finishes came at the World Championships in 2005, the World Amateur Championships in 2007, and the Arnold Amateur Europe in both 2011 and 2015. Ten results are on record from 1998 to 2015.
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 Rafael Vera Diaz, amateur shows included.
Arnold Classic
2Appearances
0Titles
2Top 3
All contests on record
10Contests
3Wins
9Top 3
All results
Every contest result on record for Rafael Vera Diaz, 10 in all. Won by names the winner of the division Rafael Vera Diaz competed in, and shows a dash where that winner cannot be pinned to one person in the database.
| Year | Contest | Division | Place | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Arnold Amateur Europe | Other Divisions | #2 | Michel Vossier |
| 2015 | European Amateur Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 2011 | Arnold Amateur Europe | Other Divisions | #2 | Bernard Cooper |
| 2009 | World Amateur Championships | Other Divisions | #5 | Wiesław Czerski |
| 2007 | World Amateur Championships | Other Divisions | #2 | Bernie Cooper |
| 2006 | World Amateur Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 2005 | Mr Universe | Other Divisions | #3 | Dimitri Doukor |
| 2005 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #2 | David Michail Balasas |
| 2002 | World Amateur Championships | Other Divisions | #1 | Winner |
| 1998 | World Championships | Other Divisions | #3 | John Citrone |
Where these results come from. Each contest in the table was recorded from a named source, and for Rafael Vera Diaz 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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Sources
Contest record from the Fitness Volt bodybuilding database. All results are recorded in masters divisions. No bio measurements are held for him.
Most-met rivals
Compare any two athletes →In 3 meetings, Rafael Vera Diaz finished ahead of Manuel Valbuena 2 times to 1.
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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