Ahmed Farooq Ghulam Al-Hussein

No Olympic or World Championships medals.

Weight classes: 69 kg in 2010, 77 kg in 2014, 69 kg in 2016, 77 kg from 2017 to 2018, 81 kg from 2018 to 2023. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (77 kg to 81 kg) and again in June 2025. At 79.14 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 85 kg.

Latest result: 2023 IWF Grand Prix II, 4 December 2023, 81 kg, total 305 kg, place 8.

Best lifts in each class

The best snatch, clean and jerk and total in each class, newest first.

Ahmed Farooq Ghulam Al-Hussein's record in context: where the best total ranks, how the snatch compares with the clean and jerk, and the lifts behind the best Sinclair score.

Best Sinclair score

430.6

From 330 kg at 78.98 kg bodyweight, 2018 World Weightlifting Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).

Best total, place in its class

100th of 512

332 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the men's 81 kg class (the class list of 2018 to 2025) on this site.

Snatch as a share of clean and jerk

79%

At the best total, 147 kg of 185 kg. A higher share means a stronger snatch for the clean and jerk. Eight in ten men lifting in national federation meets sit between 71% and 86%.

Competitions with a total

9 of 13

Of the other four: two with no good lift in the snatch or the clean and jerk and two with a good lift in each but no total in the published results.

Ahmed Farooq Ghulam Al-Hussein made 72% of snatch attempts and 49% of clean and jerk attempts at the competitions on this site, against 58% and 56% for every lifter at senior World Championships and Olympic Games since 1998. Below, each attempt in turn. Third attempts are the hardest: lifters ask for their heaviest weight last.

The lifters Ahmed Farooq Ghulam Al-Hussein has met most often in the same class, three times or more with both posting a total, and how often each finished ahead.

Rival	Met	Ahmed Farooq Ghulam Al-Hussein ahead	Rival ahead
Rejepbay Rejepov	4	0	4
Lü Xiaojun	3	0	3
Nico Müller	3	0	3
Ritvars Suharevs	3	0	3
Erkand Qerimaj	3	0	2

Every result, newest first, with all six attempts. A struck-through weight is a missed attempt and a dash an attempt not taken. A dash under Total means no total was recorded, and "No lifts" that the lifter was entered but did not lift. Places are for the total.

Swipe the table sideways to see every attempt.

Best lifts, Sinclair scores, medals and every meeting in the same class, side by side. Pick any lifter to set beside Ahmed Farooq Ghulam Al-Hussein.