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Longest Career - Women's Bodybuilding

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

43 Years
Record holder Mario Martinez United States Women's Figure
  1. 2 Kim Clark 42 United States
  2. 1 Mario Martinez 43 United States
  3. 3 Christine Reed 39 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 Mario Martinez Women's Figure United States 43
2 Kim Clark Women's Figure United States 42
3 Christine Reed Women's Figure United States 39
4 Nicole King Women's Figure United States 38
5 Michelle Ivers-Brent Women's Bodybuilding United States 36
6 Marlene Harden Women's Figure United States 36
7 Laura Davies Women's Physique Canada 36
8 Mary Ann Wieckowski Women's Physique United States 35
9 Carmen Brady Women's Bodybuilding United States 35
10 Elizabeth Lopez Women's Figure United States 34
11 Sandy Smith Women's Physique United States 34
12 Cassandra Floyd Women's Physique United States 33
13 Mary Ellen Jerumbo Women's Bodybuilding United States 32
14 Morgan Williams Women's Bikini United States 32
15 Jennifer Johnson Women's Figure United States 31
16 Melanie Horton Women's Physique Canada 31
17 JoAnn Smith Women's Figure United States 31
18 Jen Miller Women's Figure United States 31
19 Melissa Fisher Women's Figure United States 30
20 Lori Adams Women's Bodybuilding United States 30
21 Gina Marie Hall Women's Bodybuilding United States 30
22 Lisa Johnson Women's Figure United States 30
23 Diana Hall Women's Bodybuilding United States 30
24 Lisa Martin Women's Bikini United States 30
25 Nancy Brigham Women's Bodybuilding United States 29
26 Valerie Worrell Women's Bodybuilding United States 29
27 Karen Wright Women's Figure United States 29
28 Cheryl Spangler Women's Bikini United States 29
29 Lupe Leito Women's Bodybuilding Netherlands Antilles 28
30 Sheilahe Brown Women's Bodybuilding United States 28
31 Nancy Lewis Women's Bodybuilding United States 28
32 Lunette Johnson Women's Bodybuilding United States 28
33 Jessica Wilson Women's Bikini United States 27
34 Pamela Porter Women's Bodybuilding United States 27
35 Karen Gatto Women's Physique United States 27
36 Kathy Unger Women's Bodybuilding United States 27
37 Yaxeni Oriquen Women's Bodybuilding Venezuela 27
38 Shari Berkal Women's Figure United States 26
39 Jehina Malik Women's Bodybuilding United States 26
40 Lisa Smith (1) Women's Figure United States 26
41 Cristina Franzoso Women's Bodybuilding United States 26
42 Tazzie Colomb Women's Bodybuilding United States 26
43 Silvia Matta Women's Bodybuilding United States 26
44 Paula Taylor Women's Bikini United States 26
45 Jennifer Brown Women's Figure United States 26
46 Laura Johnson Women's Figure United States 26
47 Lisa Beck Women's Wellness United States 26
48 Christine Noel Women's Bodybuilding France 26
49 Suzanne Davis Women's Physique United States 25
50 Susan Myers Women's Bodybuilding United States 24
51 Denise Cadenas Women's Physique United States 24
52 Candice Carr Women's Physique Trinidad and Tobago 24
53 Cathy Lefrançois Women's Bodybuilding Canada 24
54 Laura Carolan Women's Bodybuilding Canada 24
55 Toni Carreras Women's Figure United States 24
56 Julie Hall Women's Bodybuilding United States 24
57 Zdenka Tvrda Women's Bodybuilding Serbia 24
58 Marilyn Larkin Women's Bodybuilding United States 24
59 Valentina Chepiga Women's Bodybuilding Ukraine 24
60 Christine Envall Women's Bodybuilding Australia 24
61 Jennifer Myers Women's Figure United States 23
62 Marika Johansson Women's Bodybuilding United States 23
63 Laura Richards Women's Physique United States 23
64 Vickie Nixon Women's Bodybuilding United States 23
65 Angela Debatin Women's Bodybuilding United States 23
66 Heather Manuel Women's Bodybuilding Canada 23
67 Mascha Tieken Women's Figure Netherlands 23
68 Maria Rita Bello Women's Bodybuilding Canada 23
69 Maya Stone Women's Bodybuilding United States 23
70 Amanda Aivaliotis Women's Bodybuilding Canada 23
71 Maribeth Rossi Women's Bodybuilding United States 23
72 Maria Carolina Davis Women's Bodybuilding United States 23
73 Farrah Faulkner Women's Physique United States 23
74 Roxanne Edwards Women's Bodybuilding United States 23
75 Martina Lopez Women's Bodybuilding Spain 23
76 Leslie Gurr Women's Physique Canada 23
77 Amanda Wright Women's Bodybuilding United States 22
78 Heather Payne Women's Physique United States 22
79 Maggie Keaveny Women's Bodybuilding United States 22
80 Alicia Alfaro Women's Bodybuilding United States 22
81 Elizabeth Maurice Women's Figure United States 22
82 Susan Mathison Women's Physique United States 22
83 Jennifer Taylor Women's Figure United States 22
84 Winsome White Women's Physique United States 22
85 Patricia Watson Women's Bodybuilding United States 22
86 Carmen Tocheniuk Women's Physique Canada 22
87 Amy Smith Women's Figure United States 22
88 Marti Boyle Women's Figure United States 21
89 Iris Davis Women's Bodybuilding United States 21
90 Branka Njegovec Women's Bodybuilding Croatia 21
91 Suha Qasem Women's Physique United States 21
92 Cheryl Davis Women's Figure United States 21
93 Jeanette Martin Women's Figure United States 21
94 Angela Irizarry Women's Physique United States 21
95 Margaret Negrete Women's Bodybuilding United States 21
96 Maryse Manios Women's Bodybuilding United States 21
97 Dan Smith Women's Bodybuilding United States 21
98 Rhonda Quaresma Women's Bodybuilding Canada 21
99 Marja-Leana Lehtonen Women's Bodybuilding United States 21
100 Kim Buck Women's Bodybuilding United States 21

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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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