Lydia Valentín

Olympic Games: 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze. World Championships: 2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze in the total.

Weight classes: 69 kg from 2001 to 2002, 63 kg in 2002, 75 kg from 2005 to 2007, +75 kg in 2008, 75 kg from 2008 to 2009, +75 kg in 2009, 75 kg from 2009 to 2011, +75 kg in 2011, 75 kg from 2011 to 2018, 81 kg in 2018, 76 kg in 2019, 81 kg in 2019, 76 kg in 2020, 87 kg in 2021, 76 kg in 2023. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (75 kg to 81 kg) and again in June 2025. At 72.8 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 77 kg.

Latest result: 2023 IWF Grand Prix I, 8 June 2023, 76 kg, no total.

Best lifts in each class

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

Lydia Valentín'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

321.3

From 268 kg at 74.6 kg bodyweight, 2014 European Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).

Best total, place in its class

11th of 626

268 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the women's 75 kg class (the class list of 1998 to 2018) on this site.

Snatch as a share of clean and jerk

82%

At the best total, 121 kg of 147 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

29

Turned 29 in 2014, the year of the best total.

Competitions with a total

38 of 44

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

Lydia Valentín made 69% of snatch attempts and 65% 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 Lydia Valentín 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	Lydia Valentín ahead	Rival ahead
Nadezhda Evstyukhina	8	0	8
Natalya Zabolotnaya	8	0	8
Gaëlle Nayo Ketchanke	8	7	1
Yvonne Kranz	8	8	0
Meri Ilmarinen	7	7	0
Natalia Prişcepa	7	7	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. The first pairs are the rivals Lydia Valentín met most often; the rest lifted in nearby classes, in any year.

• Rival Lydia Valentín vs Nadezhda Evstyukhina
• Rival Lydia Valentín vs Natalya Zabolotnaya
• Rival Lydia Valentín vs Gaëlle Nayo Ketchanke
• Nearby class Lydia Valentín vs Rim Jong-sim
• Nearby class Lydia Valentín vs Neisi Dajomes
• Nearby class Lydia Valentín vs Oxana Slivenko

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