Nauru · Women's 71 kg, March 2024
Maximina Uepa
Maximina Uepa is a weightlifter from Nauru, born in 2002. The results below cover 18 competitions from 2015 to 2024. The latest result came in the women's 71 kg class, at the 2024 IWF World Cup.
- Best total
- 215 kg
- Best snatch
- 96 kg
- Best clean and jerk
- 120 kg
Maximina Uepa's career: classes, totals and best lifts
No Olympic or World Championships medals.
Weight classes: 58 kg in 2015, 69 kg in 2016, 63 kg from 2017 to 2018, 71 kg from 2019 to 2020, 76 kg from 2021 to 2022, 71 kg from 2022 to 2024. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (63 kg to 71 kg) and again in June 2025. At 71 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 77 kg.
Latest result: 2024 IWF World Cup, 31 March 2024, 71 kg, no total.
Best lifts in each class
The best snatch, clean and jerk and total in each class, newest first.
| Class | Snatch | Clean and jerk | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 71 kg2019 to 2024 | 95 | 117 | 205 |
| 76 kg2021 to 2022 | 96 | 120 | 215 |
| 63 kg2017 to 2018 | 82 | 101 | 183 |
| 69 kg2016 | 66 | 86 | 152 |
| 58 kg2015 | 55 | 68 | 123 |
Maximina Uepa by the numbers
Maximina Uepa'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
- 261.1
- From 215 kg at 72.57 kg bodyweight, 2022 Commonwealth Games. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).
- Best total, place in its class
- 127th of 387
- 215 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the women's 76 kg class (the class list of 2018 to 2025) on this site.
- Snatch as a share of clean and jerk
- 79%
- At the best total, 95 kg of 120 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
- 20
- Turned 20 in 2022, the year of the best total.
- Competitions with a total
- 16 of 18
- Of the other two: one with no good lift in the snatch or the clean and jerk and one entered without taking an attempt.
How often Maximina Uepa makes each attempt
Maximina Uepa made 71% of snatch attempts and 49% 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.
Snatch, first attempt
Snatch, second attempt
Snatch, third attempt
Clean and jerk, first attempt
Clean and jerk, second attempt
Clean and jerk, third attempt
Maximina Uepa head to head
The lifters Maximina Uepa 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 | Maximina Uepa ahead | Rival ahead |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sabah Chamoun | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Maximina Uepa's competition results
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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| Competition | Place | Total | Class | Bodyweight | Snatch 1 | 2 | 3 | Clean and jerk 1 | 2 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 IWF World Cup 31 Mar 2024 | - | - | 71 kg | 71 | 93 | 95 | ||||
| 2024 Oceania Championships 21 Feb 2024 | 2 | 205 | 71 kg | 70.68 | 90 | 115 | ||||
| 2023 Pacific Games + Oceania Championships 20 Nov 2023 | 2 | 205 | 71 kg | 70.95 | 85 | 88 | 110 | 117 | ||
| 2023 World Weightlifting Championships 4 Sep 2023 | - | No lifts | 71 kg | 70.8 | not taken | not taken | not taken | not taken | not taken | not taken |
| 2022 World Weightlifting Championships 5 Dec 2022 | 30 | 201 | 71 kg | 69 | 89 | 91 | 110 | |||
| 2022 Commonwealth Games 30 Jul 2022 | 3 | 215 | 76 kg | 72.57 | 90 | 94 | 96 | 115 | 119 | |
| 2022 Oceania Junior Championships 20 May 2022 | 1 | 215 | 76 kg | 73.45 | 95 | 120 | ||||
| 2021 Oceania Championships 23 Sep 2021 | 2 | 180 | 76 kg | 71.5 | 80 | 100 | ||||
| 2020 Australian Open 28 Feb 2020 | 3 | 188 | 71 kg | 67.4 | 82 | 86 | 102 | |||
| 2019 Pacific Games 9 Jul 2019 Also the 2019 Commonwealth Junior Championships, place 1 Also the 2019 Commonwealth Senior Championships, place 2 Also the 2019 Commonwealth Youth Championships, place 1 Also the 2019 Oceania Championships, place 1 Also the 2019 Oceania Junior Championships, place 1 Also the 2019 Oceania Youth Championships, place 1 | 1 | 191 | 71 kg | 68.2 | 81 | 85 | 86 | 105 | ||
| 2018 Youth Olympic Games 6 Oct 2018 | 6 | 183 | 63 kg | 62.93 | 77 | 80 | 82 | 95 | 101 | |
| 2018 Oceanian Championships 26 Jun 2018 Also the 2018 Oceanian Junior Championships, place 1 Also the 2018 Oceanian Youth Championships, place 1 | 1 | 175 | 63 kg | 62.6 | 70 | 75 | 90 | 96 | 100 | |
| 2018 Commonwealth Games 4 Apr 2018 | 8 | 170 | 63 kg | 62.99 | 73 | 77 | 93 | |||
| 2017 Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 17 Sep 2017 | 9 | 162 | 63 kg | 62.45 | 68 | 71 | 72 | 90 | ||
| 2017 Commonwealth Championships 3 Sep 2017 Also the 2017 Commonwealth Junior Championships, place 2 Also the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Championships, place 2 Also the 2017 Oceania Championships, place 3 Also the 2017 Oceania Junior Championships, place 1 Also the 2017 Oceania Youth Championships, place 1 | 5 | 164 | 63 kg | 62.4 | 65 | 69 | 85 | 90 | 95 | |
| 2016 Oceanian Youth Championships 23 May 2016 | 4 | 152 | 69 kg | 64.71 | 58 | 63 | 66 | 78 | 82 | 86 |
| 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games 5 Sep 2015 | 4 | 123 | 58 kg | 57.28 | 50 | 55 | 68 | |||
| 2015 Oceania Youth Championships 6 Jul 2015 | 4 | 114 | 58 kg | 57.16 | 47 | 52 | 62 |
Compare Maximina Uepa
Best lifts, Sinclair scores, medals and every meeting in the same class, side by side. The first pairs are the rivals Maximina Uepa met most often; the rest lifted in nearby classes, in any year.