Karem Ben Hnia

No Olympic or World Championships medals.

Weight classes: 56 kg in 2010, 62 kg in 2011, 69 kg from 2012 to 2018, 73 kg from 2018 to 2023, 81 kg in 2023, 73 kg from 2023 to 2025. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (69 kg to 73 kg) and again in June 2025. At 72.8 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 75 kg.

Latest result: 2025 African Championships, 20 April 2025, 73 kg, total 318 kg, place 1.

Best lifts in each class

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

Karem Ben Hnia'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

473.9

From 333 kg at 68.54 kg bodyweight, 2015 World Weightlifting Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).

Best total, place in its class

27th of 434

338 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the men's 73 kg class (the class list of 2018 to 2025) on this site.

Snatch as a share of clean and jerk

82%

At the best total, 152 kg of 186 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%.

Age at best total

25

Turned 25 in 2019, the year of the best total.

Competitions with a total

31 of 36

Of the other five: four with no good lift in the snatch or the clean and jerk and one entered without taking an attempt.

Karem Ben Hnia made 59% of snatch attempts and 59% 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 Karem Ben Hnia 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	Karem Ben Hnia ahead	Rival ahead
David Sánchez	7	6	1
Nafaa Sariak	7	7	0
Masanori Miyamoto	5	3	2
Abderrahim Moum	5	5	0
Edidiong Umoafia	5	5	0
Jorge Cárdenas	5	5	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 Karem Ben Hnia.