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Longest Career - Women's Bodybuilding

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

49 Years
Record holder Jean Hendrick Belgium Women's Figure
  1. 2 Carl Smith 48 United States
  2. 1 Jean Hendrick 49 Belgium
  3. 3 Dan Browne 43 United States
Years Women's Bodybuilding 25 ranked athletes
Rank Athlete Division Country Years
1 Jean Hendrick Women's Figure Belgium 49
2 Carl Smith Women's Bodybuilding United States 48
3 Dan Browne Women's Figure United States 43
4 Mario Martinez Women's Figure United States 43
5 Dan Howard Women's Bodybuilding United States 41
6 Kim Clark Women's Figure United States 40
7 Julie Rose Women's Bodybuilding United Kingdom 39
8 Christine Reed Women's Figure United States 39
9 Eric Phillips Women's Bodybuilding United States 39
10 Nicole King Women's Figure United States 38
11 Karen Petterson Women's Figure United States 37
12 Randy Taylor Women's Figure United States 37
13 Maria Gonzalez Women's Bodybuilding United States 36
14 Marlene Harden Women's Figure United States 36
15 Laura Davies Women's Physique Canada 36
16 Michelle Ivers-Brent Women's Bodybuilding United States 36
17 Mary Ann Wieckowski Women's Physique United States 35
18 Christine Hall Women's Bodybuilding United States 35
19 Karen Kennedy Women's Bikini United States 35
20 Cheryl Harris Women's Bodybuilding United States 34
21 Sandy Smith Women's Physique United States 34
22 Kathy Miller Women's Bodybuilding United States 34
23 Elizabeth Lopez Women's Figure United States 34
24 Carmen Brady Women's Bodybuilding United States 34
25 Debra McSparrin Women's Bodybuilding United States 34

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Athletes with the longest span of professional bodybuilding competition. The leaderboard is computed directly from verified IFBB Pro competition rows recorded by Fitness Volt database, not hand-typed totals, so source priority and duplicate-result handling are applied consistently.

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