Longest Career - Men's 212 Bodybuilding
Athletes with the longest run of professional bodybuilding competition on record, with no gap longer than ten years. View methodology.
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Years
- 2 Rod Ketchens 25 United States
- 1 Lee Apperson 26 United States
- 3 Henderson Thorne 24 Netherlands
Netherlands The table lists the top 100 athletes who have competed in Men's 212 Bodybuilding, ranked by years. The figure shown is each athlete's full career total, not the part of it earned inside this division, so a Men's 212 Bodybuilding specialist and a division switcher are counted the same way.
Years
Men's 212 Bodybuilding
100 ranked athletes
| Rank | Athlete | Division | Country | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lee Apperson | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 2 | Rod Ketchens | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 3 | Henderson Thorne | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Netherlands | |
| 3 | Bola Ojex | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | United Kingdom | |
| 5 | John Sherman | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 5 | Rusty Jeffers | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 5 | Oliver Adzievski | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Canada | |
| 8 | Hidetada Yamagishi | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Japan | |
| 8 | Jeff Long | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 8 | Derik Farnsworth | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 8 | Craig Licker | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 8 | Milton Holloway | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 8 | David Henry | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 14 | Shaun Clarida | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 14 | Jason Marcovici | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Canada | |
| 16 | Alison Maria | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Netherlands | |
| 17 | Gianluca Catapano | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 17 | William Bonac | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Netherlands | |
| 19 | Bill Scarnaty | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 19 | Javier Martinez | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Canada | |
| 19 | Vinny Galanti | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 22 | Kevin English | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 22 | Craig Richardson | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 22 | Krisna Dim | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 25 | Emro Karadjuzovic | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 25 | Jason Arntz | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 25 | Ronny Rockel | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Germany | |
| 25 | Steve Benthin | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | Canada | |
| 29 | James Llewellin | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United Kingdom | |
| 29 | Eduardo Correa | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 29 | Jonathan Sebastian | Men's Physique | United States | |
| 29 | Jimmy Canyon | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 29 | Panexce Pierre | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 29 | Ahmad Ahmad | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 29 | Jason Joseph | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 29 | Lyndon Belgrave | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Canada | |
| 29 | Thomas Benagli | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 29 | Sami Al Haddad | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 39 | John Hodgson | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United Kingdom | |
| 39 | Nathaniel Wonsley | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 39 | Silvio Samuel | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Spain | |
| 39 | Elbert Daron Lytle | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 39 | Breon Ansley | Men's Classic Physique | United States | |
| 39 | Jaime Atienza | Men's Open Bodybuilding | - | |
| 39 | Clarence Davis | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Canada | |
| 39 | Mark Dugdale | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 39 | Martin Daniels | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 39 | Marc Jacobs | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 39 | Eduard Duque | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 50 | Richard Jackson | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 50 | Lee Powell | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United Kingdom | |
| 50 | Fernando Bueno | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Mexico | |
| 50 | Masoom Butt | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | United Kingdom | |
| 50 | Vincente Santamaria | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 50 | Larry Vinette | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 50 | Steven Burke | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 50 | Charles Dixon | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 50 | Alejandro Cambronero | Men's Classic Physique | United States | |
| 50 | Gaetano Cisternino | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 50 | Ben White | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 50 | Mitchell Staats | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 50 | Michael Ergas | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 50 | Leonardo Pacheco | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 50 | Walter Martin | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 50 | Brad Davis | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 50 | Milton Martinez | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 67 | Marco Cardona | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 67 | Marcus Haley | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 67 | Damion Ricketts | Men's Classic Physique | United States | |
| 67 | Troy Alves | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 67 | Dobromir Delev | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 67 | Mark Bacon | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 67 | Shavis Higa | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 67 | John Jewett | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 67 | Wayne Williams | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 67 | Roger Ferrer | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 67 | Rixio Tapia | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 67 | Flex Lewis | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United Kingdom | |
| 67 | Hadi Choopan | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Iran | |
| 67 | Mboya Edwards | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Canada | |
| 67 | Mark Sindayen | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 67 | Jaroslav Horvath | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Slovakia | |
| 67 | Junho Kim | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | Canada | |
| 84 | Oswaldo Gonzalez | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | Venezuela | |
| 84 | Dwayne Quamina | Men's 212 Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 84 | Derek Lunsford | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 84 | Tristen Escolastico | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 84 | Milan Šádek | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Puerto Rico | |
| 84 | Charles Curtis | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 84 | Nathan De Asha | Men's Open Bodybuilding | France | |
| 84 | Pierre Chamoun | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 84 | Mike Sheridan | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United Kingdom | |
| 84 | Dani Younan | Men's Classic Physique | United States | |
| 84 | Armando Aman | Men's Classic Physique | United States | |
| 84 | Luis Santa | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 84 | Grant Andre Pieterse | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Australia | |
| 84 | Jose Raymond | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 84 | Stan McQuay | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States | |
| 84 | Tomas Tabaciar | Men's Open Bodybuilding | Slovakia | |
| 84 | Khalid Almohsinawi | Men's Open Bodybuilding | United States |
About This List
Each run is counted from the documented contest results in our archive, not typed in by hand. Placings do not matter here: a year with one last-place finish extends a run as much as a year with a title, so this board will not match the Olympia or Arnold title lists.
Click any athlete to open their full career profile, including complete contest history and head-to-head matchups.
What the record shows beyond this list
This page ranks athletes. These six studies run the same archive the other way round, asking what the whole body of results says about how titles are won, at what age, and by whom. Each states its own sample and date range.
- What is the average age of a Mr. Olympia winner?
- Who had the most dominant reign in Mr. Olympia history?
- Which country has won the most Mr. Olympia titles?
- Who had the most dominant reign in Ms. Olympia history?
- Which division do pro bodybuilders switch to, and does it pay off?
- What is the average age of a Ms. Olympia winner?