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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.

26 Years
Record holder Lee Apperson United States Men's Open Bodybuilding
  1. 2 Rod Ketchens 25 United States
  2. 1 Lee Apperson 26 United States
  3. 3 Bola Ojex 24 United Kingdom

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 26
2 Rod Ketchens Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 25
3 Bola Ojex Men's 212 Bodybuilding United Kingdom 24
3 Henderson Thorne Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 24
5 Rusty Jeffers Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 22
5 Oliver Adzievski Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 22
5 John Sherman Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 22
8 Jeff Long Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
8 Derik Farnsworth Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
8 Craig Licker Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
8 Hidetada Yamagishi Men's Open Bodybuilding Japan 21
8 Milton Holloway Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
8 David Henry Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
14 Shaun Clarida Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 20
14 Jason Marcovici Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 20
16 Alison Maria Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 19
17 William Bonac Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 18
17 Gianluca Catapano Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 18
19 Vinny Galanti Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 17
19 Bill Scarnaty Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 17
19 Javier Martinez Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 17
22 Craig Richardson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 16
22 Krisna Dim Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 16
22 Kevin English Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 16
25 Steve Benthin Men's 212 Bodybuilding Canada 15
25 Jason Arntz Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 15
25 Emro Karadjuzovic Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 15
25 Ronny Rockel Men's Open Bodybuilding Germany 15
29 Eduardo Correa Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 14
29 Sami Al Haddad Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 14
29 Ahmad Ahmad Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 14
29 Jimmy Canyon Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 14
29 Panexce Pierre Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 14
29 Jason Joseph Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 14
29 James Llewellin Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 14
29 Lyndon Belgrave Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 14
29 Jonathan Sebastian Men's Physique United States 14
29 Thomas Benagli Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 14
39 Elbert Daron Lytle Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 13
39 Nathaniel Wonsley Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 13
39 Clarence Davis Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 13
39 Breon Ansley Men's Classic Physique United States 13
39 Mark Dugdale Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 13
39 Jaime Atienza Men's Open Bodybuilding - 13
39 Silvio Samuel Men's Open Bodybuilding Spain 13
39 Eduard Duque Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 13
39 John Hodgson Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 13
39 Martin Daniels Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 13
39 Marc Jacobs Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 13
50 Ben White Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 12
50 Brad Davis Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 12
50 Fernando Bueno Men's Open Bodybuilding Mexico 12
50 Gaetano Cisternino Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 12
50 Masoom Butt Men's 212 Bodybuilding United Kingdom 12
50 Mitchell Staats Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 12
50 Michael Ergas Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 12
50 Larry Vinette Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 12
50 Vincente Santamaria Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 12
50 Charles Dixon Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 12
50 Steven Burke Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 12
50 Alejandro Cambronero Men's Classic Physique United States 12
50 Leonardo Pacheco Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 12
50 Milton Martinez Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 12
50 Richard Jackson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 12
50 Lee Powell Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 12
50 Walter Martin Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 12
67 Marcus Haley Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 11
67 Damion Ricketts Men's Classic Physique United States 11
67 Troy Alves Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 11
67 Marco Cardona Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 11
67 Dobromir Delev Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 11
67 Junho Kim Men's 212 Bodybuilding Canada 11
67 Flex Lewis Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 11
67 Mark Bacon Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 11
67 Roger Ferrer Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 11
67 Hadi Choopan Men's Open Bodybuilding Iran 11
67 Jaroslav Horvath Men's Open Bodybuilding Slovakia 11
67 Shavis Higa Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 11
67 John Jewett Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 11
67 Mboya Edwards Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 11
67 Mark Sindayen Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 11
67 Wayne Williams Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 11
67 Rixio Tapia Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 11
84 Khalid Almohsinawi Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 10
84 Milan Šádek Men's Open Bodybuilding Puerto Rico 10
84 Nicolas Vullioud Men's Open Bodybuilding Switzerland 10
84 Charles Curtis Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 10
84 Courage Opara Men's Classic Physique United States 10
84 Derek Lunsford Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 10
84 Tristen Escolastico Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 10
84 Oswaldo Gonzalez Men's 212 Bodybuilding Venezuela 10
84 Pierre Chamoun Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 10
84 Mike Sheridan Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 10
84 Dwayne Quamina Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 10
84 Nathan De Asha Men's Open Bodybuilding France 10
84 Jose Raymond Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 10
84 Dani Younan Men's Classic Physique United States 10
84 Stan McQuay Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 10
84 Armando Aman Men's Classic Physique United States 10
84 Grant Andre Pieterse Men's Open Bodybuilding Australia 10

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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.

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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.

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