María Fernanda Valdés

World Championships: 1 silver in the total.

Weight classes: 69 kg in 2008, 75 kg from 2009 to 2010, +75 kg in 2010, 75 kg from 2011 to 2016, 90 kg from 2017 to 2018, 87 kg from 2018 to 2021, +87 kg in 2023, 87 kg in 2023, 81 kg in 2023, 87 kg in 2024, 81 kg in 2024, 87 kg in 2024. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (90 kg to 87 kg) and again in June 2025. At 87 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be +86 kg.

Latest result: 2024 World Weightlifting Championships, 6 December 2024, 87 kg, total 213 kg, place 20.

Best lifts in each class

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

María Fernanda Valdés'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

292.5

From 244 kg at 74.61 kg bodyweight, 2016 Pan-American Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).

Best total, place in its class

10th of 250

259 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

76%

At the best total, 112 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

27

Turned 27 in 2019, the year of the best total.

Competitions with a total

39 of 41

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

María Fernanda Valdés made 53% of snatch attempts and 69% 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 María Fernanda Valdés 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	María Fernanda Valdés ahead	Rival ahead
Jaqueline Ferreira	15	9	6
Crismery Santana	11	7	4
Ubaldina Valoyes	10	1	9
Naryury Pérez	8	7	1
Dayana Chirinos	7	2	5
Daysi Marlene Hutchinson Rodriguez	6	6	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 María Fernanda Valdés.