Women's 86 kg, October 2025

Motoka Nakajima

Motoka Nakajima is a weightlifter. The results below cover 9 competitions from 2016 to 2025. The latest result came in the women's 86 kg class, at the 2025 World Weightlifting Championships.

Best total
236 kg
Best snatch
103 kg
Best clean and jerk
133 kg
Career

Motoka Nakajima's career: classes, totals and best lifts

No Olympic or World Championships medals.

Weight classes: 69 kg from 2016 to 2017, 75 kg in 2018, 81 kg from 2019 to 2023, 87 kg in 2023, 86 kg in 2025. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (75 kg to 81 kg) and again in June 2025 (87 kg to 86 kg).

Latest result: 2025 World Weightlifting Championships, 2 October 2025, 86 kg, total 236 kg, place 10.

Motoka Nakajima: totals from the 8 competitions with a total, 2016 to 2025, best 236 kg in 2025.150200250201620182020202220242016 Youth World Weightlifting Championships, 19 Oct 2016: 164 kg2017 Youth World Weightlifting Championships, 3 Apr 2017: 174 kg2018 Asian Junior Championships, 20 Apr 2018: 189 kg2019 Youth World Weightlifting Championships, 8 Mar 2019: 195 kg2022 Asian Championships, 6 Oct 2022: 223 kg2023 IWF Grand Prix I, 8 Jun 2023: 225 kg2023 Asian Games, 30 Sep 2023: 223 kg2025 World Weightlifting Championships, 2 Oct 2025: 236 kg
Motoka Nakajima: totals from the 8 competitions with a total, 2016 to 2025, best 236 kg in 2025.1502002502016202020242016 Youth World Weightlifting Championships, 19 Oct 2016: 164 kg2017 Youth World Weightlifting Championships, 3 Apr 2017: 174 kg2018 Asian Junior Championships, 20 Apr 2018: 189 kg2019 Youth World Weightlifting Championships, 8 Mar 2019: 195 kg2022 Asian Championships, 6 Oct 2022: 223 kg2023 IWF Grand Prix I, 8 Jun 2023: 225 kg2023 Asian Games, 30 Sep 2023: 223 kg2025 World Weightlifting Championships, 2 Oct 2025: 236 kg
Total at each competition, in kilograms.

Best lifts in each class

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

Class Years Snatch Clean and jerk Total
86 kg2025 2025 103 133 236
87 kg2023 2023 100 123 223
81 kg2019 to 2023 2019 to 2023 100 125 225
75 kg2018 2018 86 103 189
69 kg2016 to 2017 2016 to 2017 77 97 174
Numbers

Motoka Nakajima by the numbers

Motoka Nakajima'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
266.8
From 236 kg at 85.77 kg bodyweight, 2025 World Weightlifting Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).
Best total, place in its class
28th of 93
236 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the women's 86 kg class (the class list of 2025 to 2026) on this site.
Snatch as a share of clean and jerk
77%
At the best total, 103 kg of 133 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
8 of 9
The other ended without a total: no good lift in the snatch or the clean and jerk.
Attempts

How often Motoka Nakajima makes each attempt

Motoka Nakajima made 67% of snatch attempts and 67% 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

Worlds and Olympics field: 74%
Motoka Nakajima: 78%

Snatch, second attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 58%
Motoka Nakajima: 56%

Snatch, third attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 41%
Motoka Nakajima: 67%

Clean and jerk, first attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 77%
Motoka Nakajima: 67%

Clean and jerk, second attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 57%
Motoka Nakajima: 78%

Clean and jerk, third attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 34%
Motoka Nakajima: 56%
Rivals

Motoka Nakajima head to head

The lifters Motoka Nakajima 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 Motoka Nakajima ahead Rival ahead
Uzbekistan Tursunoy Jabborova 3 0 3
Results

Motoka Nakajima'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 World Weightlifting Championships 2 Oct 2025 10 236 86 kg 85.77 103 kg missed103 kg missed103130133138 kg missed
2023 Asian Games 30 Sep 2023 6 223 87 kg 82.91 97100102 kg missed123126 kg missed129 kg missed
2023 World Weightlifting Championships 4 Sep 2023 - - 81 kg 81 100 kg missed100 kg missed100125 kg missed125 kg missed136 kg missed
2023 IWF Grand Prix I 8 Jun 2023 8 225 81 kg 80.5 95100105 kg missed115120125
2022 Asian Championships 6 Oct 2022 2 223 81 kg 80.77 97100 kg missed100119 kg missed119123
2019 Youth World Weightlifting Championships 8 Mar 2019 3 195 81 kg 76.49 838689 kg missed102106109
2018 Asian Junior Championships 20 Apr 2018 Also the 2018 Asian Youth Championships, place 2 6 189 75 kg 70.75 808286103 kg missed103107 kg missed
2017 Youth World Weightlifting Championships 3 Apr 2017 9 174 69 kg 67.6 737577939597
2016 Youth World Weightlifting Championships 19 Oct 2016 13 164 69 kg 66.08 6871 kg missed72858992
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