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Most Shows Competed - Men's 212 Bodybuilding

Athletes with the most documented career contest appearances. View methodology.

87 Shows
Record holder Ronny Rockel Germany Men's Open Bodybuilding
  1. 2 Richard Jackson 80 United States
  2. 1 Ronny Rockel 87 Germany
  3. 3 Hidetada Yamagishi 76 Japan

The table lists the top 100 athletes who have competed in Men's 212 Bodybuilding, ranked by shows. The figure shown is each athlete's full career total, not the part of it earned inside this division, so a Men's 212 Bodybuilding specialist and a division switcher are counted the same way.

Shows Men's 212 Bodybuilding 100 ranked athletes
Rank Athlete Division Country Shows
1 Ronny Rockel Men's Open Bodybuilding Germany 87
2 Richard Jackson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 80
3 Hidetada Yamagishi Men's Open Bodybuilding Japan 76
4 Eric Berger Men's Classic Physique United States 75
5 David Henry Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 73
6 Jeff Long (1) Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 70
7 Vinny Galanti Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 70
8 Jose Raymond Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 70
9 Bola Ojex Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 64
10 William Bonac Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 64
11 Shaun Clarida Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 62
12 Rod Ketchens Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 61
13 Derik Farnsworth Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 59
14 Gaetano Cisternino Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 59
15 Wendell Floyd Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 58
16 Milton Martinez Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 56
17 Mark Dugdale Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 55
18 Sami Al Haddad Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 52
19 Troy Alves Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 52
20 Raul Carrasco Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 51
21 Ahmad Ahmad Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 51
22 Craig Richardson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 50
23 Theodore Atkins Jr Men's Classic Physique United States 50
24 Lorenzo Jones Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 50
25 Panexce Pierre Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 48
26 Charles Dixon Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 48
27 Oliver Adzievski Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 48
28 Lukáš Osladil Men's Open Bodybuilding Czech Republic 47
29 John Meadows Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 46
30 Steve Benthin Men's 212 Bodybuilding Canada 46
31 Kevin Johnson Men's Physique United States 45
32 Henderson Thorne Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 44
33 Jim Everton Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 44
34 Tramell Taylor Men's Classic Physique United States 44
35 Alejandro Cambronero Men's Classic Physique United States 44
36 Nathaniel Wonsley Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 43
37 Samir Troudi Men's 212 Bodybuilding Sweden 43
38 Flex Lewis Men's Open Bodybuilding United Kingdom 42
39 Lee Apperson Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 42
40 Jason Arntz Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 41
41 David Robinson Men's Classic Physique United States 41
42 Kim Jun Ho Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 40
43 Mboya Edwards Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 40
44 Parenthesis Devers Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 39
45 Rusty Jeffers Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 39
46 Walter Martin Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 39
47 Nathan De Asha Men's Open Bodybuilding France 38
48 Jeff Williamson Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 38
49 Milton Holloway Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 38
50 Leonardo Pacheco Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37
51 Marco Rivera Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37
52 Elbert Daron Lytle Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37
53 Lloyd Dollar Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 37
54 Brian Garrison Men's Classic Physique United States 37
55 Kamal Elgargni Men's Open Bodybuilding Libya 36
56 Al Auguste Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 34
57 Jason Lowe Men's Classic Physique United States 34
58 Javier Martinez Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 34
59 Vojtěch Koritenský Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 34
60 Daryl Young Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 34
61 John Sherman Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 34
62 Jaroslav Horvath Men's Open Bodybuilding Slovakia 33
63 Donnie Whetstone Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33
64 Thomas Benagli Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33
65 Fernando Noronha Almeida Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 33
66 Ryan Walters Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 32
67 Alison Maria Men's Open Bodybuilding Netherlands 32
68 Milan Šádek Men's Open Bodybuilding Puerto Rico 32
69 Gator Gates Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 32
70 Rachid Souki Men's 212 Bodybuilding United States 32
71 Kevin Ofurum Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 31
72 Baitollah Abbaspour Men's Open Bodybuilding Iran 31
73 Marcus Haley Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 31
74 John Jewett Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 31
75 Jeff Velasquez Men's Classic Physique United States 31
76 Rixio Tapia Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 30
77 Khalid Almohsinawi Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 30
78 Stan McQuay Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 30
79 Manuel Cañadillas Men's Open Bodybuilding - 30
80 Eduardo Correa Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 30
81 Radoslav Angelov Men's 212 Bodybuilding Bulgaria 30
82 Piotr Borecki Men's Open Bodybuilding Australia 30
83 Erik Ramirez (1) Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 30
84 Quincy Winklaar Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 29
85 Ronnie Aldrich Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 29
86 Dickens Fenelon Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 29
87 Robert Belisle Men's Open Bodybuilding Canada 29
88 Vincent Que Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
89 Ben White Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
90 Jose Bustamante (1) Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
91 Roger Ferrer Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
92 Peter Ciccone Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 28
93 Oswaldo Gonzalez Men's 212 Bodybuilding Venezuela 28
94 Krisna Dim Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 27
95 Mahmood Al Durrah Men's Classic Physique Canada 27
96 Dani Younan Men's Classic Physique United States 27
97 Charles Mastandrea Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 27
98 Darron Glenn Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 27
99 Noel Thompson Men's Classic Physique United States 27
100 Steve Thayer Men's Open Bodybuilding United States 26

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About This List

Athletes with the most documented career contest appearances. 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.

Click any athlete to open their full career profile, including complete contest history and head-to-head matchups.

What the record shows beyond this list

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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