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Human body weight is a person's mass or weight.. Strictly speaking, body weight is the measurement of mass without items located on the person. Practically though, body weight may be measured with clothes on, but without shoes or heavy accessories such as mobile phones and wallets, and using manual or digital weighing scales.
The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in both the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement.Various definitions have been used; the most common today is the international avoirdupois pound, which is legally defined as exactly 0.453 592 37 kilograms, and which is divided into 16 avoirdupois ounces. [1]
It was 50 kg (110 lb) in Germany, 48.95 kg (108 lb) in France, 56 kg (123 lb) in Austria, etc. The unit was phased out or metricized after the introduction of the metric system in the 1790s, being occasionally retained in informal use up to the mid-20th century. [10]
Vermilion (1706): "3 to 4 hundred weight" (i.e. 336-448 pounds) Camphor (1858): "130 Dutch lbs" In Newfoundland , Canada, a tub of coal was defined as 100 pounds, while a tub of herrings was 16 Imperial gallons and a tub of salt was 18 Imperial gallons.
The stone remains widely used in the United Kingdom and Ireland for human body weight: in those countries people may commonly be said to weigh, e.g., "11 stone 4" (11 stones and 4 pounds), rather than "72 kilograms" as in most of the other countries, or "158 pounds", the conventional way of expressing the same weight in the US and in Canada. [38]
Established at 122 lb (55.3 kg) in 1920 by Walker Law; recognized in 1976 Super Flyweight: 112–115 lb (50.8 - 52.2 kg) Established at 115 lb (52.2 kg) in 1920 by Walker Law; recognized in 1980 Light Flyweight: 105–108 lb (47.6 - 49 kg) Established at 108 lb (49 kg) in 1920 by Walker Law; recognized in 1975 Strawweight: 105 lb (47.6 kg)
42 kg (93 lbs) 46 kg (101 lbs) 50 kg (110 lbs) 54 kg (119 lbs) 58 kg (128 lbs) 62 kg (137 lbs) 66 kg (146 lbs) Cadets (female youths aged 16–17, and female youths at age 15 with a medical certificate and parental authorization) compete in freestyle wrestling in the following 10 weight classes: [3] 36 to 40 kg (79 to 88 lbs) 43 kg (95 lbs)
At Lisbon the men had nine weight divisions ranging from 57 kg/125.4 lbs to over 94 kg/+206.8 lbs while the women had six, ranging from 50 kg/110 lbs to over 70 kg/154 lbs and there was also a mixed team event and unlike more recent W.A.K.O. championships some countries were allowed more than one athlete per weight division.