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Longest Career - Men's 212 Bodybuilding

Athletes with the longest span of professional bodybuilding competition. View methodology.

42 Years
Record holder Ralph Coccio United States Men's Open Bodybuilding
  1. 2 Eric Eckenrode 40 United States
  2. 1 Ralph Coccio 42 United States
  3. 3 Clarence Davis 39 Canada

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 Ralph Coccio Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42
2 Eric Eckenrode Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 40
3 Clarence Davis Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 39
4 Vinny Galanti Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37
5 Bill Scarnaty Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37
6 Kim Jun Ho Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 37
7 Rusty Jeffers Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 36
8 Derik Farnsworth Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 36
9 Charles Mastandrea Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 34
10 Lee Apperson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 34
11 Rod Ketchens Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33
12 Darryl Mayfield Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33
13 Leonardo Pacheco Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 32
14 Kim Seong Hwan Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 32
15 Richard Jackson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 31
16 Javier Martinez Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 31
17 Donnie Whetstone Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 31
18 Guy Ducasse Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 31
19 Noel Thompson Men's Classic Physique United States 30
20 Milton Holloway Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 29
21 Alejandro Guerrero Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
22 Hidetada Yamagishi Men's Open Bodybuilding Japan 28
23 John Sherman Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
24 Jeff Williamson Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 28
25 Jocelyn Jean Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 27
26 Sami Al Haddad Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 27
27 Broderick Credell Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 27
28 Peter Ciccone Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
29 Lee Jin Ho Men's Open Bodybuilding South Korea 26
30 Jose Raymond Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
31 Eric Langlois Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
32 Henderson Thorne Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 26
33 Muhammad Masoom Butt Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 26
34 Lee Powell Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 26
35 Jeff Long (1) Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
36 Craig Richardson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
37 Ryan Walters Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
38 Eric Castagnet Men's Open Bodybuilding France 26
39 Doug Derma Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 25
40 Logan Robson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 25
41 Vincente Santamaria Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 25
42 Luciano Basoni Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 25
43 Craig Licker Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 25
44 Ivan Massillon Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 25
45 Steve Benthin Men's 212 Bodybuilding Canada 25
46 Jose Oquendo Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 24
47 Alison Maria Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 24
48 David Henry Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 24
49 Erik Ramirez (1) Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 24
50 Nathaniel Wonsley Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 24
51 Bola Ojex Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 24
52 Anthony DeHerrera Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 24
53 Carlos Pinto Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 24
54 Oliver Adzievski Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 24
55 Krisna Dim Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 23
56 Shavis Higa Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 23
57 Luc Molines Men's Open Bodybuilding France 23
58 Miguel Rodriguez Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 23
59 Kamal Elgargni Men's Open Bodybuilding Libya 23
60 Onder Adsay Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 23
61 Jason Marcovici Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 23
62 Wendell Floyd Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 23
63 Sandro Ramirez Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 22
64 Ronny Rockel Men's Open Bodybuilding Germany 22
65 Prince Boabang Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 22
66 David Herbert Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 22
67 Carlos Rabiei Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 22
68 Shaun Clarida Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 22
69 Esteban Bravo Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 22
70 Flex Lewis Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 21
71 Mark Dugdale Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
72 Sheldon Hall Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
73 Marlon Ballesteros Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
74 Brad Davis Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
75 Danny Seibert Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
76 John Meadows Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
77 Stan McQuay Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
78 Tramell Taylor Men's Classic Physique United States 21
79 Kang Kyung Won Men's Open Bodybuilding South Korea 21
80 Gregory Ulysse Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 21
81 Eduardo Correa Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
82 Lorenzo Jones Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
83 Santiago Almazan Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
84 Mitchell Staats Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
85 Joey Decaminada Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
86 Parenthesis Devers Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
87 Mark Bacon Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 20
88 Andrew Mitchell Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 20
89 Jim Everton Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 20
90 Kevin English Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 20
91 Greg Doucette Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 20
92 Jason Arntz Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 20
93 Mboya Edwards Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 20
94 Nathan De Asha Men's Open Bodybuilding France 20
95 Avraam Kyriacou Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 19
96 Murat Gönül Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 19
97 Jaime Atienza Men's Open Bodybuilding - 19
98 Michael Ergas Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 19
99 Jimmy Canyon Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 19
100 Panexce Pierre Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 19

About This List

Athletes with the longest span of professional bodybuilding competition. The leaderboard is counted from the documented contest results in our archive, pro and amateur alike, with no weighting for the size of a show and no hand-typed totals. A long run of regional wins therefore counts the same here as a run of flagship ones, which is why this list and the Olympia and Arnold title lists do not agree with each other.

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.