Men's 212 Bodybuilding Division
How long this division has run, and how much of it this page holds on record.
Men's 212 Bodybuilding Division is a competitive bodybuilding division sanctioned by the IFBB Professional League. This page is our record of that division: the champions year by year, the shows that run it, and every athlete we hold a result for. Men's 212 Bodybuilding has been contested at the Arnold Classic in 5 years on record, and no athlete has won it there more than once.
Men's 212 Bodybuilding Division at a glance
How deep this division runs and how a career in it actually looks. Avg career and contests per athlete cover only athletes with two or more contests, because someone who entered once and never returned says nothing about how long a career lasts. Avg competitors per contest is all-time.
212 Olympia champion
The most recent 212 Olympia champion on record in Men's 212 Bodybuilding is Keone Pearson, who won the 2025 title.
Rules & weight classes
What the published rule page states for Men's 212 Bodybuilding, transcribed rather than summarised. Where that page specifies nothing, this card says so instead of filling the gap.
- Attire
- Solid, non-distracting cloth posing trunks; shirtless and barefoot. Metallic, shiny rubberized material, padding, advertisements, and endorsements are prohibited.
- Posing
- Eight mandatory poses. Judging presentation is up to 60 seconds; the finals routine is up to three minutes, followed by a 60-second posedown.
- Judging
- Quarter turns, mandatory poses, and callouts. Judging counts 100%; finals callouts may replace the judging score as confirmation.
The IFBB Professional League publishes no goal and weight cap for this division, so we do not state one.
Source: IFBB Professional League Rules. Version and access date: .
Most titles in this division
Ranked by Olympia titles, then wins at other professional shows, then division wins.
- 1Flex LewisUnited Kingdom7Pro wins
- 2Jose RaymondUnited States6Pro wins
- 3Radoslav AngelovBulgaria6Pro wins
- 4Angel Calderon FriasUnited States6Pro wins
- 5Keone PearsonUnited States5Pro wins
- 6Shaun ClaridaUnited States5Pro wins
- 7David HenryUnited States5Pro wins
- 8Gaetano CisterninoUnited States5Pro wins
- 9Kerrith BajjoUnited States5Pro wins
- 10Hidetada YamagishiJapan5Pro wins
Famous Men's 212 Bodybuilding athletes
Each athlete here has a full article on Fitness Volt, so the name links to that article rather than to a database page. The order is fixed: Olympia champions first, most titles first, then the highest-ranked athletes in the ranking order used in the list above, then recent winners at contests tagged Olympia, Arnold or major tier in the division's latest results on record.
212 Olympia champions by year
Every athlete on record as 212 Olympia champion in this division, most recent first. One chip per year, so an athlete who won it more than once appears once for each title, and a name links to that athlete's page where we hold one.
Arnold Classic champion by year
These are the champions of the Arnold Classic in Columbus. Each year links to that edition's results in this division.
Regional Arnold editions
The Arnold Classic has also run pro editions outside Columbus. Those are separate contests, so their winners are listed here rather than in the run above, and they are not counted as Arnold Classic titles.
| Year | Edition | Champion | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Arnold Classic UK | Naser Mohamed | – |
Men's 212 Bodybuilding Division athletes qualified for the 2026 212 Olympia
24 athletes have qualified for the 2026 Olympia in this division.
The names are the League's own list. Beside each one is the route our own contest record can evidence: a win in this division inside the qualifying window, a placing in the top three at the previous 212 Olympia, or a past Olympia title. Where our record evidences none of those, the route is left blank rather than guessed at.
Names are spelled the way the League lists them, which is not always the way our own archive records the same athlete elsewhere on this page.
| Athlete | How they qualified |
|---|---|
| Nasser Mohammad | Won the 2025 Huanji China Pro 3 |
| Zhaofeng He | Won the 2025 IFBB AGP Pro |
| Radoslav Angelov | Won the 2025 IFBB Romania Muscle Fest Pro |
| Keone Pearson | Won the 2025 212 Olympia |
| Shaun Clarida | Won the 2025 Huanji China Pro 4 |
| Lucas Garcia | Placed 3rd at the 2025 212 Olympia |
| Felipe Moraes | Won the 2025 Musclecontest Brazil Pro |
| Felipe Isaac Fierro Lobos | Won the 2025 IFBB Mexico Pro |
| Yinka Majolagbe | Won the 2025 IFBB EVLS Prague Pro |
| Ching Chieh Lin | Won the 2025 Asian Championships Pro |
| Francisco Barrios Vlk | Won the 2025 Argentina Pro |
| Michael Condell | Won the 2026 New York Pro |
| Wei Li | Won the 2026 World of Monsterzym Korea Pro |
| Vitor Alves Porto De Oliveira | Won the 2026 South Florida Pro |
| Angel Caleron Frias | Won the 2026 Empro Classic Spain Pro |
| Nihat Kaya | Won the 2025 IFBB Dubai Pro |
| Esteban Fuquene | Won the 2026 Chicago Pro |
| Cameron George | Won the 2026 Taiwan Pro Show |
| Xiaoshuang Lan | – |
| Courage Opara | Won the 2026 Texas Pro |
| Naotaka Yokokawa | Won the 2026 Japan Pro |
| Juan Aleman | Won the 2026 Lenda Murray ATL Pro Supershow |
| Andrey Pereira | Won the 2026 Sur Pro Cup Argentina |
| Breon Ansley | Won the 2026 World of Monsterzym Asian Pro Championships |
Source: the IFBB Professional League's qualified athletes page. The League's qualifying window for this season runs September 15, 2025 - August 30, 2026. Wins are read from contest results we hold up to August 29, 2026, so a win at a show more recent than that is not reflected in the route column.
Recent Results
The most recent contests on record in this division and who won each. One row per contest, newest first.
| Year | Contest | Winner | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2026 World of Monsterzym Asian Pro Championships | Breon Ansley | United States |
| 2026 | 2026 Tampa Pro | Jesse Distefano | United States |
| 2026 | 2026 World of Monsterzym Korea Pro | Wei Li | China |
| 2026 | 2026 Toronto Pro Supershow | Keiva Bundy | Canada |
| 2026 | 2026 Sur Pro Cup Argentina | Andrey Pereira | Brazil |
| 2026 | 2026 South Florida Pro | Oswaldo Gonzalez | Venezuela |
| 2026 | 2026 Taiwan Pro Show | Cameron George | Australia |
| 2026 | 2026 Chicago Pro | Esteban Fuquene | United States |
| 2026 | 2026 Texas Pro | Courage Opara | United States |
| 2026 | 2026 Empro Classic Spain Pro | Angel Calderon Frias | United States |
Shows that run this division
The 12 longest-running of 36 shows that have run this division in two or more years. Another 63 contests hold a single recorded edition.
| Show | Editions | Years |
|---|---|---|
| 212 Olympia | 18 | 2008–2025 |
| New York Pro | 15 | 2012–2026 |
| Tampa Pro | 13 | 2014–2026 |
| Toronto Pro Supershow Filed in the archive under toronto-pro and toronto-pro-supershow. | 13 | 2012–2026 |
| Romania Muscle Fest Pro/Am | 8 | 2018–2025 |
| Chicago Pro | 7 | 2020–2026 |
| Puerto Rico Pro | 6 | 2015–2026 |
| Texas Pro | 6 | 2021–2026 |
| Wings of Strength Chicago Pro | 6 | 2013–2019 |
| Legion Sports Fest Pro | 5 | 2018–2022 |
| Europa Dallas | 5 | 2015–2019 |
| Vancouver Pro | 5 | 2015–2019 |
How shows are grouped and counted
These counts are drawn from every recorded result in this division, amateur and professional alike, because that is the whole of what the contest archive holds. The list of shows below is the one narrower set: it counts only IFBB Professional League and IFBB contests, and it counts recurring shows rather than individual contests, so it is not a subset of the figures here.
Shows are grouped by contest series, not by contest name, so one event the sources spell several ways counts as one run. Three pairs of series the archive holds twice are merged into a single show, and the Olympia weekend is read as one event rather than as separate men's, women's and fitness listings; any merged row names the series it was built from. A show counts as professional when its federation is the IFBB Professional League or the IFBB, and two series the records mislabel as professional are excluded by name because no column separates them. Contests with at least two recorded editions in this division are listed, and single-edition entries are counted separately. A span reports what the archive holds, and nothing about when the division was created.
Height and weight on record
We hold a height and a weight for 47 of the 1,048 athletes in this division. Everything below describes that measured group and nobody else.
Those measurements were never collected as a sample. They exist for the athletes who have been written about, which loads the group heavily toward champions and long careers, so this is the shape of the athletes we have measured rather than a portrait of the division as a whole.
Rounded to whole centimetres and whole kilograms. The source mixes metric values with inch and pound conversions, so a decimal place here would be a conversion artefact rather than a measurement. The range is the middle 80% of the athletes we hold measurements for, not the full span. Weights are the bodyweight recorded on an athlete's profile rather than a contest-day weigh-in, and the archive holds no weigh-in figure at all, so in a division that competes under a weight limit these can read above it.
Browse Men's 212 Bodybuilding Athletes
Search the athletes in this division by name, or change the order. Results and Wins on each card are career totals across every division an athlete has entered, not their record in this division, and the default order is most career wins first.
Men's 212 Bodybuilding Division rules: common questions
What poses are required in Men's 212 Bodybuilding?
Front double biceps, front lat spread, side chest, back double biceps, back lat spread, side triceps, abdominals and thighs, and most muscular.
How long is the Men's 212 posing routine?
The judging presentation is limited to 60 seconds. The finals routine is limited to three minutes.
How is Men's 212 scored?
Judging counts 100%. Finals callouts may be scored as confirmation and replace the judging score.
Does the published Men's 212 rule page state a 212-pound cap?
No. The division carries the number in its name, but the published rule page states no weight limit anywhere in the 212 section, so we do not state one either.
Our latest reporting on Men's 212 Bodybuilding
- Breon Ansley Enters ‘Bulking Phase’ for 212, Discusses Steroids & Keone Pearson Inspiring Him to Switch Divisions
- Breon Ansley Makes Move to 212 Bodybuilding Official: “It Is Time for a New Challenge”
- Keone Pearson Wants ‘A Lot Bigger’ Prize Money for 212, Calls for Its Return at Arnold Classic
- Seth Feroce Hints at Return to Bodybuilding, Says He Has ‘Unfinished Business,’ Reveals Current PED Stack
- Shaun Clarida Talks Goals and 2023 Olympia Plan: ‘Get That 3rd Title and Call It a Day’
- Lee Priest Responds to Backlash on Urging Removal of 212 & Other Divisions: ‘Shouldn’t Be a Pro’
About this record
This page settles who has won in Men's 212 Bodybuilding, in which year, and how deep the record goes. Where there is something to say about how it differs from the divisions beside it, this page says it. It does not judge a physique.
The rules and weight classes above are transcribed from a published rule page, which that section names and dates. They are not inferred from the division name, and where that page specifies nothing this page prints the absence instead of filling it.
- Every figure on this page is drawn from one set of records: 1,048 athletes, 3,232 results and 251 contests.
- Results belong to this division by division type, the authoritative identifier on the contest record, not by matching the division's name. Divisions that have no type fall back to their recorded names.
- Olympia titles count a contest flagged as an Olympia with an overall winner, one title per year. Men's 212 has had its own champion since 2008 and is counted as its own division, never folded into the Open.
- Away from the Olympia, the winner of a contest is the athlete placed first inside this division on that contest's result row. An overall placing across divisions is never counted as a win outside the Olympia.
- The top-athlete order is a fixed ranking: Olympia titles first, then major and pro show wins, then wins inside this division. Nothing on the list is hand-placed.
- Athlete and result counts are all-time and include amateur competition, so they run ahead of the pro-only record.
- The browse list on this page holds fewer athletes than the Athletes figure in the header. Rows identified as non-athletes, rows kept as name-collision placeholders, and rows with an open data issue are held back from search, while their results still count toward the totals in the header above.