Joana Palacios

No Olympic or World Championships medals.

Weight classes: 58 kg in 2010, 63 kg from 2011 to 2016, 69 kg from 2017 to 2018, 64 kg from 2018 to 2021, 71 kg from 2022 to 2023. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (69 kg to 64 kg) and again in June 2025. At 64.65 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 69 kg.

Latest result: 2023 Pan-American Championships, 25 March 2023, 71 kg, total 188 kg, place 11.

Best lifts in each class

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

Joana Palacios'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

260.1

From 199 kg at 62.98 kg bodyweight, 2016 Junior World Weightlifting Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).

Best total, place in its class

270th of 864

199 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the women's 63 kg class (the class list of 1998 to 2018) on this site.

Snatch as a share of clean and jerk

76%

At the best total, 86 kg of 113 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

20

Turned 20 in 2016, the year of the best total.

Competitions with a total

23 of 23

A total at every competition listed.

Joana Palacios made 61% of snatch attempts and 77% 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 Joana Palacios 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	Joana Palacios ahead	Rival ahead
Ana Lilia Durán	6	0	6
Angie Palacios	5	1	4
Rosivé Silgado	5	1	4
Lesbia Marielis Cruz Hernandez	5	3	2
Eva Gurrola	4	0	4
Ercila Beatriz Limas Rosales	4	4	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.

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 Joana Palacios.