Turkey · Women's 45 kg, April 2025
Cansu Bektaş
Cansu Bektaş is a weightlifter from Turkey, born in 2003, with one World Championships medal (1 bronze). The results below cover 15 competitions from 2019 to 2025. The latest result came in the women's 45 kg class, at the 2025 European Championships.
- World medal
- 1
- Best total
- 167 kg
- Best snatch
- 76 kg
- Best clean and jerk
- 93 kg
Cansu Bektaş's career: classes, totals and best lifts
World Championships: 1 bronze in the total.
Weight classes: 40 kg in 2019, 45 kg from 2021 to 2025. The IWF changed its class list in June 2025. At 45 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 49 kg.
Latest result: 2025 European Championships, 13 April 2025, 45 kg, total 166 kg, place 1.
Best lifts in each class
The best snatch, clean and jerk and total in each class, newest first.
| Class | Snatch | Clean and jerk | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45 kg2021 to 2025 | 76 | 93 | 167 |
| 40 kg2019 | 55 | 67 | 122 |
Cansu Bektaş by the numbers
Cansu Bektaş'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
- 272.5
- From 167 kg at 44.98 kg bodyweight, 2024 World Weightlifting Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).
- Best total, place in its class
- 16th of 180
- 167 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the women's 45 kg class (the class list of 2018 to 2025) on this site.
- Snatch as a share of clean and jerk
- 80%
- At the best total, 74 kg of 93 kg. A higher share means a stronger snatch for the clean and jerk. Eight in ten women lifting in national federation meets sit between 70% and 85%.
- Age at best total
- 21
- Turned 21 in 2024, the year of the best total.
- Competitions with a total
- 15 of 15
- A total at every competition listed.
How often Cansu Bektaş makes each attempt
Cansu Bektaş made 67% of snatch attempts and 56% 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.
Snatch, first attempt
Snatch, second attempt
Snatch, third attempt
Clean and jerk, first attempt
Clean and jerk, second attempt
Clean and jerk, third attempt
Cansu Bektaş head to head
The lifters Cansu Bektaş 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 | Cansu Bektaş ahead | Rival ahead |
|---|---|---|---|
 Marta García |
10 | 10 | 0 |
| Gamze Altun |
7 | 7 | 0 |
| Ecaterina Grabucea | 4 | 4 | 0 |
 Teodora-Luminița Hîncu |
4 | 4 | 0 |
| Bianca-Daniela Dumitrescu | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Hong Zi-Yu | 3 | 3 | 0 |
Cansu Bektaş's competition results
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.
| Competition | Place | Total | Class | Bodyweight | Snatch 1 | 2 | 3 | Clean and jerk 1 | 2 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 European Championships 13 Apr 2025 | 1 | 166 | 45 kg | 45 | 72 | 74 | 76 | 90 | ||
| 2024 World Weightlifting Championships 6 Dec 2024 | 4 | 167 | 45 kg | 44.98 | 74 | 93 | ||||
| 2024 European Championships 12 Feb 2024 | 1 | 163 | 45 kg | 45 | 70 | 73 | 75 | 88 | ||
| 2023 IWF World Junior Championships 15 Nov 2023 | 1 | 163 | 45 kg | 44.8 | 70 | 73 | 86 | 90 | ||
| 2023 World Weightlifting Championships 4 Sep 2023 | 3 | 162 | 45 kg | 45 | 70 | 72 | 75 | 87 | ||
| 2023 European Junior Championships 24 Jul 2023 | 1 | 155 | 45 kg | 44.8 | 68 | 70 | 85 | |||
| 2023 European Championships 15 Apr 2023 | 1 | 162 | 45 kg | 44.58 | 70 | 72 | 86 | 88 | 90 | |
| 2022 World Weightlifting Championships 5 Dec 2022 | 9 | 156 | 45 kg | 44.9 | 69 | 87 | ||||
| 2022 European Junior Championships 15 Oct 2022 | 1 | 157 | 45 kg | 44.15 | 65 | 68 | 70 | 82 | 87 | |
| 2022 Islamic Solidarity Games 11 Aug 2022 | 2 | 151 | 45 kg | 44.3 | 65 | 80 | 86 | |||
| 2022 European Championships 28 May 2022 | 2 | 153 | 45 kg | 44.7 | 65 | 68 | 83 | 85 | ||
| 2022 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 2 May 2022 | 2 | 150 | 45 kg | 44.35 | 65 | 82 | 85 | |||
| 2021 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 23 May 2021 | 1 | 154 | 45 kg | 44.35 | 65 | 67 | 70 | 80 | 84 | |
| 2019 European Youth Championships 7 Dec 2019 | 1 | 122 | 40 kg | 39.71 | 55 | 67 | ||||
| 2019 Youth World Weightlifting Championships 8 Mar 2019 | 1 | 120 | 40 kg | 39.11 | 50 | 54 | 61 | 64 | 66 |
Compare Cansu Bektaş
Best lifts, Sinclair scores, medals and every meeting in the same class, side by side. The first pairs are the rivals Cansu Bektaş met most often; the rest lifted in nearby classes, in any year.