This is a list of world records in

Olympic weightlifting Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lif ...

. These records are maintained in each

weight class Weight classes are divisions of competition used to match competitors against others of their own size. Weight classes are used in a variety of sports, especially combat sports (such as boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts and wrestling). Alte ...

for the snatch lift,

clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ...

lift, and the total for both lifts. The

International Weightlifting Federation The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), headquartered in Lausanne, is the international governing body for the sport of Olympic weightlifting. The IWF was founded in 1905, and has 192 Member Federations. The IWF President is Mohammed H ...

(IWF) restructured its weight classes in 1993, 1998 and 2018, nullifying earlier records.

Current records

Key to tables: When the previous records and weight classes were discarded, the IWF defined "world standards" as the minimum lifts needed to qualify as world records in the new weight classes. Wherever ''World Standard'' appears in the list below, no qualified weightlifter has yet lifted these weights in a sanctioned competition.

Men

Women

Historical records

Men (1998–2018)

Men (1993–1997)

Men (1973–1992)

Men (1920–1972)

Women (1998–2018)

On the website of the International Weightlifting Federation, there is still the record of Nurcan Taylan (Turkey) of 121 kg who was disqualified for doping for this result. Here was the previous mark.
On the website of the International Weightlifting Federation there is still the record of Hripsime Khurshudyan (Armenia) of 283 kg in total (160 in the clean & jerk), who was disqualified for doping for these results, but the International Federation did not change the record table.

Women (1993–1997)

Women (1988–1992)

References

;General
IWF World Records
''20 October 2022 updated'' ;Specific

External links

International Weightlifting Federation
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