Kim Yong-ju

World Championships: 1 bronze in the total.

Weight classes: 87 kg in 2024, 81 kg in 2025. The IWF changed its class list in June 2025. At 79.35 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 86 kg.

Latest result: 2025 IWF World Junior Championships, 30 April 2025, 81 kg, total 252 kg, place 1.

Best lifts in each class

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

Kim Yong-ju'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

297.3

From 258 kg at 81.7 kg bodyweight, 2024 IWF World Cup. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).

Best total, place in its class

12th of 250

258 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the women's 87 kg class (the class list of 2018 to 2025) on this site.

Snatch as a share of clean and jerk

78%

At the best total, 113 kg of 145 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%.

Competitions with a total

3 of 3

A total at every competition listed.

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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Best lifts, Sinclair scores, medals and every meeting in the same class, side by side. Pick any lifter to set beside Kim Yong-ju.