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US Armed Forces Championships 2002

US Armed Forces Championships 2002 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight title went to Carmelo Lopez.

Year
2002
Date
Jan 1, 2002
Location
USA
Federation
NPC
Divisions
10
Competitors
36

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US Armed Forces Championships 2002

Carmelo Lopez Champion

2002 USA Dec 31, 2001

US Armed Forces Championships 2002 was held in USA. The Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight title went to Carmelo Lopez.

Medium confidence Historical/community source Updated August 13, 2026 Accurate?

Defending BantamWeight champion Kenya Harrison, who won in 2001, did not return.

Top 3 Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight

1st
Carmelo Lopez
Carmelo Lopez
United States
2nd
Bruce Monroe
United States
3rd
Sheldon Griffin
United States

US Armed Forces Championships 2002 contested 10 divisions across 36 athletes, 8 open and 2 age-restricted Masters. Carmelo Lopez took Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight. 10 divisions crowned a champion; each is judged independently. No round scores were published for this event, so placings are shown without them.

Masters divisions 2

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Bantamweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Carmelo Lopez 2nd win here United States
2nd Bruce Monroe United States
3rd Sheldon Griffin United States
4th Billy Gilbert United States
5th Jason Helms United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Heavyweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Neil Beauford Title defense, 4th win here United States
2nd Sherman Wright United States
3rd Robert Pearson United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightheavyweight

Place Athlete Country
1st John Wilkins First recorded win United States
2nd Deswin Farmell United States
3rd Franklin Massey United States
4th James Hodgle United States
5th Chris Plummer United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Lightweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Quentin Randolph Title defense, 2nd win here United States
2nd Richard LaCuesta United States
3rd Vincent Bentley United States
4th Willie Evans United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Middleweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Phillip Prestirino First recorded win United States
2nd Randy Watson (3) United States
3rd Gregory Kerr United States
4th David Lamyotte United States
5th Jerry Carpenter United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Bodybuilding - Heavyweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Laura Sanders First recorded win United States
2nd Sandra Yelverton United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Bodybuilding - Lightweight

Place Athlete Country
1st Patricia Watson First recorded win United States
2nd Tonia Joyner United States
3rd Sally Serkiz-Johnson United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Bodybuilding - Middleweight

Masters divisions

Age-graded classes, judged separately from the open divisions above.

Women's Bodybuilding - Masters

Place Athlete Country
1st Michelle Dingle First recorded win United States
2nd Angela Wynn-Brice United States
3rd Elizabeth Waterman United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Other Divisions - Masters Men

Place Athlete Country
1st Neil Beauford United States
2nd John Myers United States
3rd Jay Bryant United States
4th Michael Jacco United States
5th Sherman Wright United States

Official scores are unavailable.

Complete Results updated June 11, 2026 Source: MuscleMemory

This edition in context

Competitors
36
Divisions
10
Size rank
4 of 12

The biggest field since 2001.

Past winners of this event

Winner of the headline division for each edition of this event on record.
Year Winner Division
2007 Susan Salazar Figure
2006 DeMaris Belanger Open
2005 Kathryn Apostolina Bodybuilding
2004 Ashalyn Porter Open

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What this page holds

The placings as recorded, and nothing past them

This page lists the divisions and finishing order held for this contest, with the source named on it wherever one was recorded. It reports what was published. It does not re-judge the show, and it does not reconcile disagreements between sources.

  • Score and bodyweight columns appear only for divisions where those figures exist in the data. A division without them was recorded as placings only, not as a show that gave no scores.
  • Where the record has two athletes sharing a place, both are listed. A tie is never broken to produce a single winner.
  • Venue, federation, date and competitor count show only when the source supplied them. A field left out means nothing was sourced for it, never a zero.
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