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Longest Career - Men's Physique

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

24 Years
Record holder Greg Grant United States Men's Open Bodybuilding
  1. 2 Javier Martinez 17 Canada
  2. 1 Greg Grant 24 United States
  3. 3 Michael Ferguson 15 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 Greg Grant Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 24
2 Javier Martinez Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 17
3 Michael Ferguson Men's Physique United States 15
3 Michael Anderson Men's Physique United States 15
3 Sharif Reid Men's Physique United States 15
6 Jonathan Sebastian Men's Physique United States 14
6 Paul Wynter Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 14
6 Dave Goodin Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 14
6 George Brown Men's Physique United States 14
6 Tony Dionisio Men's Physique United States 14
6 Jim Holcomb Men's Classic Physique United States 14
6 Ken Jones Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 14
6 Duane Brickhouse Men's Physique United States 14
14 Jake Phippen Men's Classic Physique United States 13
14 Jason Alan Robinson Men's Physique United States 13
14 David Kampfe Men's Classic Physique United States 13
14 Jacques Lewis Men's Physique United States 13
14 Nathaniel Wonsley Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 13
14 Timothy Feuling Men's Physique United States 13
14 Robert Simpson Men's Physique United States 13
14 Jake Alvarez Men's Physique United States 13
14 Jeremy Buendia Men's Physique United States 13
14 Ryan Terry Men's Physique United Kingdom 13
14 Brandon Hendrickson Men's Physique United States 13
14 Sadik Hadzovic Men's Physique United States 13
26 Steven Rogers Men's Physique United States 12
26 Andre Ferguson Men's Physique United States 12
26 Raymond Akinlosotu Men's Physique United States 12
26 Victor Oliver Men's Classic Physique United States 12
26 Victor Ruiz Men's Classic Physique United States 12
26 Jeremy Potvin Men's Physique United States 12
26 Frank Same Men's Physique United States 12
26 Stanislas De Longeaux Men's Classic Physique United States 12
26 David Thorpe Men's Physique United States 12
26 Ryan Stanton Men's Physique United States 12
26 Kenneth Jones Men's Physique United States 12
26 Geobanny Paula Men's Physique United States 12
26 Joseph Lee Men's Physique United States 12
26 Jorge Gonzalez Men's Physique United States 12
26 David Key Men's Physique United States 12
26 Jonathan Cetera Men's Physique United States 12
26 Tony Lynch Men's Physique United States 12
26 Alberto Bistocchi Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 12
44 Carlos Gonzalez Men's Open Bodybuilding Argentina 11
44 Felipe Franco Men's Physique United States 11
44 Shawn Labega Men's Physique United States 11
44 Brandon Robichaux Men's Physique United States 11
44 Leon McCall Men's Physique United States 11
44 Jared Thompson Men's Classic Physique United States 11
44 Vesselin Diev Men's Physique United States 11
44 Roger Ferrer Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 11
44 Kevin Wilson Men's Classic Physique Canada 11
44 Nelson Rodrigues Men's Physique Portugal 11
44 Sean Daniel Men's Physique United States 11
44 Julio Valdes Men's Physique Puerto Rico 11
44 Jamal Everette Men's Physique United States 11
44 Karly Green Women's Bodybuilding United States 11
44 Jason Tessler Men's Physique United States 11
44 Erick Schultz Men's Classic Physique United States 11
44 Joe Andaya Men's Physique United States 11
44 Andre Adams Men's Physique Canada 11
44 Diogo Ferreira Montenegro Men's Physique United States 11
44 Mark Sindayen Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 11
44 Tony Duong Men's Classic Physique United States 11
65 Brett Vickers Men's Physique United States 10
65 Jerry Gutierrez Men's Physique United States 10
65 Steven Cao Men's Physique United States 10
65 Matt Pattison Men's Classic Physique Canada 10
65 Michael Williams Men's Physique United States 10
65 Doug Miller Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 10
65 Logan Franklin Men's Classic Physique United States 10
65 Darnell Ferguson Men's Classic Physique United States 10
65 Andrea Mosti Men's Physique Italy 10
65 Greg Romero Men's Physique United States 10
65 Arya Saffaie Men's Physique United States 10
65 Ismael Martinez Dominguez Men's Physique Mexico 10
65 Kevin Reeder Men's Physique United States 10
65 Khali Quartey Men's Physique United States 10
65 Daryl King Men's Physique United States 10
65 David Odom Men's Physique United States 10
65 Capriese Murray Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 10
65 Josh Cohn Men's Classic Physique United States 10
65 Kyron Holden Men's Physique United States 10
65 Hygor Ponchet Men's Physique United States 10
65 Terrell Robertson Men's Physique United States 10
65 Anton Antipov Men's Physique United States 10
65 Frank Griffin Men's Physique United States 10
65 Ranzino Valentine Men's Physique United States 10
65 Robert Johnson Men's Classic Physique United States 10
65 Adam Bankston Men's Physique United States 10
65 Ian Buchanan Men's Physique United States 10
65 Sanad Alsanad Men's Physique Kuwait 10
65 Aundre Benson Men's Physique United States 10
65 Steve Taylor Men's Physique United States 10
65 Jeremy Jones Men's Physique United States 10
65 Anas Mohammed Men's Physique United States 10
65 Luca Biolo Men's Physique - 10
65 Antoine Danford Men's Physique United States 10
65 Bridgett R Annett Women's Physique United States 10
65 Michael Mperey Men's Physique United States 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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