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This is a list of world records in Olympic weightlifting. These records are maintained in each weight class for the snatch lift, clean and jerk lift, and the total for both lifts. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) restructured its weight classes in 1993, 1998 and 2018, nullifying earlier records.
This is the list of Olympic records in weightlifting. Records are maintained in each weight class for the snatch lift, clean and jerk lift, and the total for both lifts. The weight classes for men on the Olympic program were adjusted for the 2000 Games , so Olympic records only exist based on the results during and after that. [ 1 ]
[7] Clean & Jerk 218 kg Standard: Total 388 kg Wesley Kitts: 16 June 2023 IWF Grand Prix Havana, Cuba [7] 109 kg Snatch 177 kg Wesley Kitts: 3 August 2021 Olympic Games: Tokyo, Japan [8] Clean & Jerk 223 kg Wesley Kitts: 26 April 2019 Pan American Championships: Guatemala City, Guatemala Total 399 kg Wesley Kitts: 26 April 2019 Pan American ...
Weightlifting (often known as Olympic weightlifting) is a competitive strength sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with the aim of successfully lifting the heaviest weights. Athletes compete in two specific ways of lifting the barbell overhead.
He competed in the men's +109 kg event. [6] [7] Wilkes lifted 173 kg in the Snatch and 217 kg in the Clean & Jerk for a total of 390 kg. [8] He finished in 9th place. [8] He finished in 4th place in the men's +109 kg event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia.
In 1998 World Championships, he set an all-time powerlifting record total at 2,463 lb (1,117 kg), in the 110 kg weight class. Coan's best total in a drug tested international competition is 2,282 lb (1,035 kg) in the 100 kg weight class at the 1994 IPF Senior World Championships in South Africa , [ 6 ] establishing a new world record at the time.
His last lift was a 190.0 kg clean and jerk that was 3.15 times his body weight, [12] which is the highest ratio clean and jerk to body weight of all time. Using the Sinclair coefficient , his performance at the 1988 Seoul Olympics was the most dominating weightlifting performance of all time. [ 13 ]
2.1 Men. 2.1.1 One hand lift. 2.1.2 Two hand lift. ... This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in weightlifting. Current program. Men. Featherweight