Men's 71 kg, August 2025
Michael Anthony Farmer
Michael Anthony Farmer is a weightlifter. The results below cover 7 competitions from 2016 to 2025. The latest result came in the men's 71 kg class, at the 2025 Commonwealth Championships.
- Best total
- 286 kg
- Best snatch
- 128 kg
- Best clean and jerk
- 158 kg
Michael Anthony Farmer's career: classes, totals and best lifts
No Olympic or World Championships medals.
Weight classes: 69 kg in 2016, 67 kg in 2019, 73 kg in 2022, 71 kg in 2025. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (69 kg to 67 kg), June 2025 (73 kg to 71 kg) and August 2026. At 70.21 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 75 kg.
Latest result: 2025 Commonwealth Championships, 24 August 2025, 71 kg, total 277 kg, place 6.
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 kg2025 | 125 | 152 | 277 |
| 73 kg2022 | 128 | 158 | 286 |
| 67 kg2019 | 116 | 146 | 261 |
| 69 kg2016 | 103 | 125 | 228 |
Michael Anthony Farmer by the numbers
Michael Anthony Farmer'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
- 392.3
- From 286 kg at 72.61 kg bodyweight, 2022 Commonwealth Games. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).
- Best total, place in its class
- 220th of 434
- 286 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the men's 73 kg class (the class list of 2018 to 2025) on this site.
- Snatch as a share of clean and jerk
- 81%
- At the best total, 128 kg of 158 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%.
- Competitions with a total
- 7 of 7
- A total at every competition listed.
How often Michael Anthony Farmer makes each attempt
Michael Anthony Farmer made 38% of snatch attempts and 57% 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
Michael Anthony Farmer head to head
The lifters Michael Anthony Farmer 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 | Michael Anthony Farmer ahead | Rival ahead |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ezekiel Moses | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Michael Anthony Farmer'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Commonwealth Championships 24 Aug 2025 | 6 | 277 | 71 kg | 70.21 | 125 | 148 | 152 | |||
| 2022 Commonwealth Games 30 Jul 2022 | 7 | 286 | 73 kg | 72.61 | 128 | 158 | ||||
| 2022 European Championships 28 May 2022 | 10 | 286 | 73 kg | 72.7 | 128 | 158 | ||||
| 2019 European Junior Championships 17 Oct 2019 | 13 | 258 | 67 kg | 66.6 | 116 | 142 | ||||
| 2019 Commonwealth Junior Championships 9 Jul 2019 Also the 2019 Commonwealth Senior Championships, place 4 | 2 | 261 | 67 kg | 66.8 | 115 | 140 | 146 | |||
| 2016 Junior Commonwealth Championships 25 Oct 2016 | 8 | 228 | 69 kg | 65.96 | 100 | 103 | 120 | 125 | ||
| 2016 European Youth Championships 10 Sep 2016 | 15 | 213 | 69 kg | 64.76 | 93 | 115 | 118 | 120 |
Compare Michael Anthony Farmer
Best lifts, Sinclair scores, medals and every meeting in the same class, side by side. The first pairs are the rivals Michael Anthony Farmer met most often; the rest lifted in nearby classes, in any year.
- Rival Michael Anthony Farmer vs Ezekiel Moses
- Nearby class Michael Anthony Farmer vs Lü Xiaojun
- Nearby class Michael Anthony Farmer vs Shi Zhiyong
- Nearby class Michael Anthony Farmer vs Óscar Figueroa
- Nearby class Michael Anthony Farmer vs Nikolaj Pešalov
- Nearby class Michael Anthony Farmer vs Chen Lijun