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Longest Career - Men's Open Bodybuilding

Athletes with the longest run of professional bodybuilding competition on record, with no gap longer than ten years. View methodology.

35 Years
Record holder Jocelyn Pelletier United States Men's Open Bodybuilding
  1. 2 Darrem Charles 32 Trinidad and Tobago
  2. 1 Jocelyn Pelletier 35 United States
  3. 3 Boyer Coe 26 United States

The table lists the top 100 athletes who have competed in Men's Open 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 Open Bodybuilding specialist and a division switcher are counted the same way.

Years Men's Open Bodybuilding 100 ranked athletes
Rank Athlete Division Country Years
1 Jocelyn Pelletier Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 35
2 Darrem Charles Men's Open Bodybuilding Trinidad and Tobago 32
3 Boyer Coe Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
3 Lee Apperson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
5 Elvernie McGhee Men's Classic Physique United States 25
5 Scott Wilson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 25
5 Rod Ketchens Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 25
5 Robby Robinson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 25
9 Bola Ojex Men's 212 Bodybuilding United Kingdom 24
9 Bill Grant Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 24
9 Henderson Thorne Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 24
9 Greg Grant Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 24
13 Pavol Jablonicky Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 23
13 Danny Padilla Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 23
15 Oliver Adzievski Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 22
15 John Sherman Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 22
15 Rusty Jeffers Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 22
15 Chris Dickerson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 22
15 Marc Arthur Dautruche Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 22
15 Dexter Jackson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 22
15 Greg Rando Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 22
22 Kai Greene Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
22 Craig Licker Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
22 Juan Marquez Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
22 Jeff Long Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
22 Hidetada Yamagishi Men's Open Bodybuilding Japan 21
22 Milton Holloway Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
22 David Henry Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
22 Derik Farnsworth Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
22 Ali Malla Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
31 Jason Marcovici Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 20
31 Jojo Ntiforo Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 20
31 Miles Stovall Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 20
31 Shaun Clarida Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 20
31 David Marinelli Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 20
31 Sergio Oliva Men's Open Bodybuilding Cuba 20
31 Victor Martinez Men's Open Bodybuilding Dominican Republic 20
31 Gary Strydom Men's Open Bodybuilding South Africa 20
31 Vince Taylor Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 20
40 Eduard Van Amsterdam Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 19
40 Johnnie O. Jackson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 19
40 Serge Nubret Men's Open Bodybuilding Guadeloupe 19
40 Fabrizio Zittugro Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 19
40 Albert Beckles Men's Open Bodybuilding Barbados 19
40 Alison Maria Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 19
46 Sergey Shelestov Men's Open Bodybuilding Russia 18
46 Gian Enrico Pica Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 18
46 Gianluca Catapano Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 18
46 Samir Bannout Men's Open Bodybuilding Lebanon 18
46 Edouard Kawak Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 18
46 Bruce Patterson Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 18
46 Tommi Thorvildsen Men's Open Bodybuilding Norway 18
46 Flavio Baccianini Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 18
46 Roland Cziurlok Men's Open Bodybuilding Poland 18
46 David Hawk Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 18
46 Quincy Roberts Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 18
46 William Bonac Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 18
58 Bertil Fox Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 17
58 Daryl Stafford Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 17
58 Mike Ashley Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 17
58 Reggie Allen Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 17
58 Elvis Brown Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 17
58 Dennis James Men's Open Bodybuilding Germany 17
58 Javier Martinez Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 17
58 Brandon Curry Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 17
58 Bill Hemsworth Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 17
58 Julio Cesar Balestrin Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 17
58 Bill Scarnaty Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 17
58 Vinny Galanti Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 17
70 Rick Wayne Men's Open Bodybuilding Saint Lucia 16
70 Tony Pearson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 16
70 Krisna Dim Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 16
70 Tony Ruffin Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 16
70 Craig Richardson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 16
70 Ronnie Coleman Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 16
70 John Citrone Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 16
70 Bill Pearl Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 16
70 Lionel Beyeke Men's Open Bodybuilding France 16
70 Nasser El Sonbaty Men's Open Bodybuilding Germany 16
70 Jay Cutler Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 16
70 Rod Koontz Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 16
70 Reg Park Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 16
70 Vladimir Sizov Men's Classic Physique United States 16
70 Kevin English Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 16
85 Honore Cironte Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 15
85 Allesandro Komadina Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 15
85 Reza Amintorabi Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 15
85 Phil Heath Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 15
85 Ronny Rockel Men's Open Bodybuilding Germany 15
85 Jason Arntz Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 15
85 Sharif Reid Men's Physique United States 15
85 Rawle Greene Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 15
85 Gustavo Badell Men's Open Bodybuilding Venezuela 15
85 Fred Smalls Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 15
85 Steve Benthin Men's 212 Bodybuilding Canada 15
85 Vladimir Agrinsky Men's Open Bodybuilding Sweden 15
85 Michael Ferguson Men's Physique United States 15
85 Gerry Ruck Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 15
85 Isaac Scott Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 15
85 Harold Kelley Men's Wheelchair United States 15

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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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