Karol Samko

No Olympic or World Championships medals.

Weight classes: 77 kg in 2007, 85 kg in 2008, 77 kg from 2009 to 2011, 85 kg from 2014 to 2018, 81 kg in 2018, 96 kg in 2019, 89 kg in 2019, 96 kg in 2019, 89 kg in 2021, 96 kg in 2022, 89 kg in 2023, 96 kg from 2024 to 2025, 88 kg in 2026. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (85 kg to 81 kg), June 2025 (96 kg to 88 kg) and August 2026. At 87.79 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 95 kg.

Latest result: 2026 European Championships, 19 April 2026, 88 kg, total 295 kg, place 19.

Best lifts in each class

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

Karol Samko'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

433.1

From 345 kg at 84.73 kg bodyweight, 2014 World Weightlifting Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).

Best total, place in its class

231st of 1,263

345 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

76%

At the best total, 149 kg of 196 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

24

Turned 24 in 2014, the year of the best total.

Competitions with a total

25 of 28

Of the other three: two with no good lift in the snatch or the clean and jerk and one with a good lift in each but no total in the published results.

Karol Samko made 61% of snatch attempts and 54% 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 Karol Samko 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	Karol Samko ahead	Rival ahead
Krzysztof Zwarycz	8	1	7
Revaz Davitadze	7	0	7
Krenar Shoraj	6	2	4
Milko Tokola	6	5	1
Aghasi Aghasyan	5	0	5
Amar Musić	5	3	2

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 Karol Samko.