Men's 81 kg, April 2025

Janez Paternoster

Janez Paternoster is a weightlifter. The results below cover 6 competitions from 2021 to 2025. The latest result came in the men's 81 kg class, at the 2025 IWF World Junior Championships.

Best total
280 kg
Best snatch
125 kg
Best clean and jerk
155 kg
Career

Janez Paternoster's career: classes, totals and best lifts

No Olympic or World Championships medals.

Weight classes: 67 kg from 2021 to 2022, 73 kg in 2023, 81 kg from 2024 to 2025. The IWF changed its class list in June 2025. At 79.55 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 85 kg.

Latest result: 2025 IWF World Junior Championships, 30 April 2025, 81 kg, total 280 kg, place 13.

Janez Paternoster: totals from the 6 competitions with a total, 2021 to 2025, best 280 kg in 2025.170230290202120222023202420252021 Youth World Weightlifting Championships, 5 Oct 2021: 177 kg2022 European Youth Championships, 10 Aug 2022: 204 kg2023 IWF World Youth Championships, 25 Mar 2023: 213 kg2023 European Youth Championships, 1 Jul 2023: 224 kg2024 European Junior Championships, 26 Oct 2024: 267 kg2025 IWF World Junior Championships, 30 Apr 2025: 280 kg
Janez Paternoster: totals from the 6 competitions with a total, 2021 to 2025, best 280 kg in 2025.170230290202120222023202420252021 Youth World Weightlifting Championships, 5 Oct 2021: 177 kg2022 European Youth Championships, 10 Aug 2022: 204 kg2023 IWF World Youth Championships, 25 Mar 2023: 213 kg2023 European Youth Championships, 1 Jul 2023: 224 kg2024 European Junior Championships, 26 Oct 2024: 267 kg2025 IWF World Junior Championships, 30 Apr 2025: 280 kg
Total at each competition, in kilograms.

Best lifts in each class

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

Class Years Snatch Clean and jerk Total
81 kg2024 to 2025 2024 to 2025 125 155 280
73 kg2023 2023 100 124 224
67 kg2021 to 2022 2021 to 2022 92 112 204
Numbers

Janez Paternoster by the numbers

Janez Paternoster'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
363.8
From 280 kg at 79.55 kg bodyweight, 2025 IWF World Junior Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).
Best total, place in its class
334th of 512
280 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
81%
At the best total, 125 kg of 155 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
6 of 6
A total at every competition listed.
Attempts

How often Janez Paternoster makes each attempt

Janez Paternoster made 78% 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

Worlds and Olympics field: 74%
Janez Paternoster: 100%

Snatch, second attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 58%
Janez Paternoster: 83%

Snatch, third attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 41%
Janez Paternoster: 50%

Clean and jerk, first attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 77%
Janez Paternoster: 83%

Clean and jerk, second attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 57%
Janez Paternoster: 50%

Clean and jerk, third attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 34%
Janez Paternoster: 33%
Rivals

Janez Paternoster head to head

The lifters Janez Paternoster 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 Janez Paternoster ahead Rival ahead
Jonas Klinger 4 0 4
Ravin Almammadov 4 0 4
Results

Janez Paternoster'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.

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Competition Place Total Class Bodyweight Snatch 1 2 3 Clean and jerk 1 2 3
2025 IWF World Junior Championships 30 Apr 2025 13 280 81 kg 79.55 121125128 kg missed150155158 kg missed
2024 European Junior Championships 26 Oct 2024 13 267 81 kg 79.4 114119122144 kg missed145150 kg missed
2023 European Youth Championships 1 Jul 2023 9 224 73 kg 71.25 96100105 kg missed115121124
2023 IWF World Youth Championships 25 Mar 2023 12 213 73 kg 71.1 9498101 kg missed115120 kg missed120 kg missed
2022 European Youth Championships 10 Aug 2022 11 204 67 kg 66.5 8690 kg missed92112118 kg missed119 kg missed
2021 Youth World Weightlifting Championships 5 Oct 2021 12 177 67 kg 63.08 7376799398 kg missed98
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Best lifts, Sinclair scores, medals and every meeting in the same class, side by side. The first pairs are the rivals Janez Paternoster met most often; the rest lifted in nearby classes, in any year.

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