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Longest Career - Men's Physique

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

74 Years
Record holder Jimmy Payne United States Men's Open Bodybuilding
  1. 2 Robert Clark 63 Netherlands
  2. 1 Jimmy Payne 74 United States
  3. 3 William Walker 63 United States

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

Years Men's Physique 100 ranked athletes
Rank Athlete Division Country Years
1 Jimmy Payne Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 74
2 Robert Clark Men's Physique Netherlands 63
3 William Walker Men's Physique United States 63
4 Rafael Olivera Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 53
5 Nelson Martin Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 50
6 Brian Taylor Men's Physique United Kingdom 49
7 Michael Bell Men's Classic Physique United States 46
8 Charles Carter Men's Physique United States 46
9 Jorge Carrillo Men's Physique Mexico 46
10 Patrick Martin Men's Physique United States 45
11 Mike Christian Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 45
12 Ken Davis Men's Physique United States 45
13 Greg Grant Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 45
14 David Smith (1) Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 43
15 James Youngblood Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42
16 Carlos Lopez Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 41
17 Frank Same Men's Physique United States 40
18 Alfred Scaccia Men's Classic Physique United States 40
19 Ken Jones Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 40
20 Juan Gomez Men's Physique United States 39
21 David McGee Men's Physique United States 37
22 Brian Nixon Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 36
23 Guy Smith Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 35
24 Leonard Smith Men's Physique United States 35
25 Martin Burger Men's Physique United States 34
26 Kim Seong Hwan Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 32
27 Adrian Smith Men's Physique United Kingdom 32
28 Javier Martinez Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 31
29 Gerry Garcia Men's Physique United States 31
30 Richard Silverman Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 31
31 Dave Goodin Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 30
32 Noel Thompson Men's Classic Physique United States 30
33 Mark Anthony Men's Physique United States 29
34 John Ligsay Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 29
35 Frank Ramos Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 29
36 Corey Simpson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
37 Kevin Brown Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
38 Michael Ferguson Men's Physique United States 28
39 David Cruz Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
40 Greg Johnson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
41 Paul Wynter Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
42 Chris Williamson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 27
43 Luis Colon Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 27
44 Johnny Speight Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26
45 Brent Bumgarner Men's Classic Physique United States 26
46 Tyler Smith Men's Physique United Kingdom 25
47 Jason Carter Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 25
48 Capriese Murray Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 25
49 Roddy Gaubert Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 25
50 Andres Gutierrez Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 25
51 John Collins Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 24
52 Luis Dennis Maciel Men's Open Bodybuilding Australia 24
53 Nathaniel Wonsley Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 24
54 Patrick Howard Men's Classic Physique United States 24
55 Jose Hernandez (2) Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 24
56 Jorge Gonzalez Men's Physique United States 24
57 Carlos Silva Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 24
58 Ty Pope Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 23
59 Andrew Martin Men's Physique United States 23
60 Travis Young Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 22
61 Andre Coel Men's Open Bodybuilding Belgium 22
62 Andrew Armand Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 22
63 Pierre Vandensteen Men's Open Bodybuilding Belgium 22
64 Carlos Gonzalez Men's Open Bodybuilding Argentina 22
65 Mark Robinson Men's Physique United States 22
66 Franklin Bugner Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 22
67 Andrew Landis Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 22
68 Michael Spencer Men's Classic Physique Canada 21
69 Rodrigo Oliveira Men's Physique Brazil 21
70 Jonathan Cetera Men's Physique United States 21
71 Michael Lee Men's Physique United States 21
72 Lorenzo Jones Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 21
73 Luther Bradford Men's Physique United States 21
74 Robert Kelly Men's Physique United States 21
75 Walter Moore Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 20
76 Matt Davis (1) Men's Classic Physique United States 20
77 Ryan Moore Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 20
78 Winston Johnson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 20
79 Tony Claiborne Men's Physique United States 20
80 Jim Everton Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 20
81 Eric Neal Men's Physique United States 20
82 Thomas Miller Men's Classic Physique United States 20
83 David Johnson (1) Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 19
84 Ryan Black Men's Physique United States 19
85 Ricardo Villarreal Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 19
86 Andre Smith Men's Physique United States 19
87 Carlos Gomez Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 19
88 Roger Ferrer Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 19
89 Nick Rogers Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 19
90 Theodore Atkins Jr Men's Classic Physique United States 19
91 Kevin Huang Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 19
92 Francisco Rodriguez Men's Physique United States 19
93 Chuck Mauceri Men's Classic Physique United States 19
94 Antonio Mitchell Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 19
95 Robert Collins Men's Physique United States 18
96 William Campbell Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 18
97 Jonathan Gonzalez Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 18
98 Kevin Wilson Men's Classic Physique Canada 18
99 Jim Holcomb Men's Classic Physique United States 18
100 Greg Johnstone Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 18

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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.

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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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