Erika Yamasaki

No Olympic or World Championships medals.

Weight classes: 53 kg from 2004 to 2006, 48 kg in 2007, 53 kg in 2007, 48 kg in 2010, 58 kg in 2011, 53 kg in 2013, 58 kg in 2014, 53 kg from 2014 to 2015, 48 kg in 2016, 58 kg from 2016 to 2017, 59 kg in 2019, 55 kg from 2019 to 2020, 59 kg in 2021. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (58 kg to 59 kg) and again in June 2025. At 58.75 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 61 kg.

Latest result: 2021 Olympic Games, 23 July 2021, 59 kg, total 170 kg, place 12.

Best lifts in each class

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

Erika Yamasaki'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

264.6

From 181 kg at 52.49 kg bodyweight, 2015 World Weightlifting Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).

Best total, place in its class

194th of 438

186 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the women's 59 kg class (the class list of 2018 to 2025) on this site.

Snatch as a share of clean and jerk

75%

At the best total, 80 kg of 106 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

32

Turned 32 in 2019, the year of the best total.

Competitions with a total

21 of 22

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

Erika Yamasaki made 68% of snatch attempts and 63% 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 Erika Yamasaki 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	Erika Yamasaki ahead	Rival ahead
Dika Toua	4	0	4
Jenly Tegu Wini	4	2	2
Ana Margot Lemos Robledo	3	0	3
Malwina Rowińska	3	0	3
Johanni Taljaard	3	2	1
Bernada Uepa	3	3	0

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. A row that names two events was one competition scored for both; its places can differ because each ranks its own field.

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Best lifts, Sinclair scores, medals and every meeting in the same class, side by side. Pick any lifter to set beside Erika Yamasaki.