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Longest Career - Women's Bodybuilding

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

29 Years
Record holder Mary Ellen Jerumbo United States Women's Bodybuilding
  1. 2 Yaxeni Oriquen 27 Venezuela
  2. 1 Mary Ellen Jerumbo 29 United States
  3. 3 Valerie Worrell 26 United States

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

Years Women's Bodybuilding 100 ranked athletes
Rank Athlete Division Country Years
1 Mary Ellen Jerumbo Women's Bodybuilding United States 29
2 Yaxeni Oriquen Women's Bodybuilding Venezuela 27
3 Valerie Worrell Women's Bodybuilding United States 26
4 Mascha Tieken Women's Figure Netherlands 23
5 Elizabeth Maurice Women's Figure United States 22
5 Angela Debatin Women's Bodybuilding United States 22
5 Silvia Matta Women's Bodybuilding United States 22
5 Cathy Lefrançois Women's Bodybuilding Canada 22
5 Cassandra Floyd Women's Physique United States 22
10 Tazzie Colomb Women's Bodybuilding United States 21
10 Nancy Lewis Women's Bodybuilding United States 21
12 Valentina Chepiga Women's Bodybuilding Ukraine 19
12 Yaxeni Oriquen-Garcia Women's Bodybuilding Venezuela 19
12 Donna Jones Women's Physique United States 19
12 Katrina Roundtree Women's Figure United States 19
12 Irene Andersen Women's Bodybuilding Sweden 19
17 Maria Rita Bello Women's Bodybuilding Canada 18
18 Kate Grevey Women's Figure United States 17
19 Terri Reeves Women's Bodybuilding United States 16
19 Trish Wood Women's Physique United States 16
19 Dayana Cadeau Women's Bodybuilding Haiti 16
19 Iris Kyle Women's Bodybuilding United States 16
19 Janet Lynn West Women's Bikini United States 16
24 Laura Creavalle Women's Bodybuilding British Guiana 15
24 Klaudia Larson Women's Physique United States 15
24 Anita Gandol Women's Bodybuilding United States 15
24 Mercedes Bazemore Women's Bodybuilding United States 15
24 Gillian Kovack Women's Bodybuilding United States 15
24 Heather Grace Women's Physique United States 15
24 Jeanie Welker Women's Bodybuilding United States 15
24 Michelle Brent Women's Bodybuilding United States 15
24 Kim Buck Women's Bodybuilding United States 15
24 Martina Lopez Women's Bodybuilding Spain 15
24 Dianne Brown Women's Physique United States 15
24 Christine Envall Women's Bodybuilding Australia 15
24 Maria Segura Women's Bodybuilding United States 15
24 Monica Martins Women's Bodybuilding Brazil 15
24 Candice Carr Women's Physique Trinidad and Tobago 15
24 Wendy McCready Women's Bodybuilding United Kingdom 15
24 Isabelle Turell Women's Bodybuilding United States 15
41 Kim Clark Women's Figure United States 14
41 Gayle Moher Women's Bodybuilding United Kingdom 14
41 Irhassette McClean Women's Bodybuilding United States 14
41 Renee Casella Women's Bodybuilding United States 14
41 Aurelia Grozajova Women's Bodybuilding United States 14
41 Brenda Rahe Women's Bodybuilding United States 14
41 Claudia Partenza Women's Bodybuilding Italy 14
41 Melissa Kelly Women's Figure United States 14
41 MayLa Ash Women's Bodybuilding United States 14
41 Maria Calo Women's Bodybuilding United States 14
41 Marie Allegro Women's Figure United States 14
41 Sheena Ohlig Women's Bodybuilding United States 14
41 Janeen Lankowski Women's Bodybuilding Canada 14
41 Lenda Murray Women's Bodybuilding United States 14
41 Susan Graham Women's Physique United States 14
41 Evangeline Belton Women's Physique United States 14
41 Maria Rita Penteado Women's Bodybuilding United States 14
41 Betty Pariso Women's Bodybuilding United States 14
59 Carmen Knight Women's Figure Canada 13
59 Skye Ryland Women's Bodybuilding United States 13
59 Desunka Dawson Women's Physique United States 13
59 Myriam Bustamante Women's Bodybuilding United States 13
59 Bonny Priest Women's Bodybuilding United States 13
59 Susana Garcia Women's Figure Mexico 13
59 Carla Dunlap Women's Bodybuilding United States 13
59 Celia Cadena Women's Bodybuilding United States 13
59 Maryse Manios Women's Bodybuilding United States 13
59 Aurika Tyrgale Women's Fitness United States 13
59 Frida Palmell Women's Physique United States 13
59 Robyn Mays Women's Physique United States 13
59 Rosalyn Dudding Women's Figure United States 13
59 Karina Nascimento Women's Physique United States 13
73 Debbie Fowler Women's Fitness United States 12
73 Melanie Horton Women's Physique Canada 12
73 Elizabeth Gomez Women's Bodybuilding United States 12
73 Virginia Sanchez Women's Bodybuilding Canada 12
73 Reshanna Boswell Women's Bodybuilding United States 12
73 Kim Chizevsky Women's Bodybuilding United States 12
73 Jessica Wilson Women's Bikini United States 12
73 Victoria Dominguez Women's Bodybuilding United States 12
73 Brenda Raganot Women's Bodybuilding United States 12
73 Liane Seiwald Women's Figure United States 12
73 Marjo Selin Women's Bodybuilding Finland 12
73 Jan Rowlett Women's Bodybuilding United States 12
73 Klaudia Larsson Women's Bodybuilding Sweden 12
73 LaDawn McDay Women's Bodybuilding United States 12
73 Pamela John Women's Bikini United States 12
73 Latoynia Ransom-Harvey Women's Bodybuilding United States 12
73 Cathy Vail Women's Bodybuilding United States 12
73 Olga Beliakova Women's Physique Russia 12
73 Denise Masino Women's Bodybuilding United States 12
73 Patty Corbett Women's Bodybuilding United States 12
73 Karen Mason Women's Bodybuilding United States 12
73 Michelle Ivers-Brent Women's Bodybuilding United States 12
73 Autumn Swansen Women's Physique United States 12
73 Sheronica Henton Women's Physique United States 12
73 Marika Johansson Women's Bodybuilding United States 12
73 Vicky McCann Women's Bodybuilding United States 12
99 Debra Gudowicz Women's Bodybuilding United States 11
99 Tara Martin Women's Figure United States 11

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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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