Cathal Byrd

No Olympic or World Championships medals.

Weight classes: 69 kg from 2007 to 2009, 77 kg in 2009, 69 kg in 2009, 77 kg from 2010 to 2011, 85 kg from 2012 to 2014, 77 kg in 2015, 85 kg from 2016 to 2018, 81 kg in 2019. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (85 kg to 81 kg) and again in June 2025. At 80.6 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 85 kg.

Latest result: 2019 International Naim Suleymanoglu Tournament, 11 November 2019, 81 kg, total 260 kg, place 6.

Best lifts in each class

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

Cathal Byrd'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

362.1

From 272 kg at 76.3 kg bodyweight, 2015 European Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).

Best total, place in its class

866th of 1,263

282 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the men's 85 kg class (the class list of 1998 to 2018) on this site.

Snatch as a share of clean and jerk

77%

At the best total, 123 kg of 159 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

14 of 16

The others ended without a total: no good lift in the snatch or the clean and jerk.

Cathal Byrd made 44% of snatch attempts and 66% 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 Cathal Byrd 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	Cathal Byrd ahead	Rival ahead
Erkand Qerimaj	4	0	4
Krzysztof Szramiak	4	0	4
Tom Schwarzbach	4	0	4
Alexandru Roșu	3	0	3
Arakel Mirzoyan	3	0	3
Damian Kuczyński	3	0	3

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 Cathal Byrd.