Finland · Women's 59 kg, April 2025
Saara Retulainen
Saara Retulainen is a weightlifter from Finland, born in 1993. The results below cover 23 competitions from 2015 to 2025. The latest result came in the women's 59 kg class, at the 2025 European Championships.
- Best total
- 214 kg
- Best snatch
- 95 kg
- Best clean and jerk
- 119 kg
Saara Retulainen's career: classes, totals and best lifts
No Olympic or World Championships medals.
Weight classes: 58 kg in 2015, 63 kg from 2017 to 2018, 64 kg from 2018 to 2019, 59 kg from 2019 to 2023, 64 kg in 2023, 59 kg from 2023 to 2025. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (63 kg to 64 kg) and again in June 2025. At 58.8 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 61 kg.
Latest result: 2025 European Championships, 13 April 2025, 59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 59 kg2019 to 2025 | 95 | 119 | 214 |
| 64 kg2018 to 2023 | 91 | 108 | 198 |
| 63 kg2017 to 2018 | 89 | 107 | 193 |
| 58 kg2015 | 73 | 91 | 164 |
Saara Retulainen by the numbers
Saara Retulainen'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
- 290.5
- From 214 kg at 59 kg bodyweight, 2024 European Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).
- Best total, place in its class
- 51st of 438
- 214 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the women's 59 kg class (the class list of 2018 to 2025) on this site.
- Snatch as a share of clean and jerk
- 80%
- At the best total, 95 kg of 119 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
- 31
- Turned 31 in 2024, the year of the best total.
- Competitions with a total
- 17 of 23
- The others ended without a total: no good lift in the snatch or the clean and jerk.
How often Saara Retulainen makes each attempt
Saara Retulainen made 42% of snatch attempts and 48% 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
Saara Retulainen head to head
The lifters Saara Retulainen 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 | Saara Retulainen ahead | Rival ahead |
|---|---|---|---|
 Ine Andersson |
8 | 2 | 6 |
| Irene Martinez Santiago | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| Ivana Gorisek | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Thuridur Erla Helgadottir | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Jessica Gordon Brown | 6 | 5 | 1 |
 Amalie Aarsten |
6 | 6 | 0 |
Saara Retulainen'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.
Swipe the table sideways to see every attempt.
| Competition | Place | Total | Class | Bodyweight | Snatch 1 | 2 | 3 | Clean and jerk 1 | 2 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 European Championships 13 Apr 2025 | - | - | 59 kg | 58.8 | 115 | |||||
| 2024 World Weightlifting Championships 6 Dec 2024 | 7 | 211 | 59 kg | 59 | 92 | 115 | 119 | |||
| 2024 IWF World Cup 31 Mar 2024 | - | - | 59 kg | 59 | 94 | |||||
| 2024 European Championships 12 Feb 2024 | 3 | 214 | 59 kg | 59 | 92 | 95 | 114 | 117 | 119 | |
| 2023 IWF Grand Prix II 4 Dec 2023 | - | - | 59 kg | 59 | ||||||
| 2023 World Weightlifting Championships 4 Sep 2023 | 28 | 172 | 64 kg | 62.95 | 75 | 78 | 80 | 85 | 89 | 92 |
| 2023 European Championships 15 Apr 2023 | 5 | 200 | 59 kg | 58.76 | 89 | 111 | ||||
| 2022 World Weightlifting Championships 5 Dec 2022 | 21 | 202 | 59 kg | 58.9 | 88 | 110 | 114 | |||
| 2022 European Championships 28 May 2022 | - | - | 59 kg | 58.85 | not taken | not taken | not taken | |||
| 2021 World Weightlifting Championships 7 Dec 2021 | 11 | 195 | 59 kg | 58.5 | 87 | 108 | ||||
| 2021 Open Championships 10 May 2021 | - | - | 59 kg | 58.8 | not taken | not taken | not taken | |||
| 2021 European Championships 3 Apr 2021 | 6 | 198 | 59 kg | 58.58 | 87 | 90 | 108 | |||
| 2020 Malta International Open 23 Feb 2020 | 3 | 196 | 59 kg | 58.89 | 85 | 104 | 109 | 111 | ||
| Roma 2020 World Cup 27 Jan 2020 | 7 | 193 | 59 kg | 58.95 | 85 | 88 | 105 | |||
| 2019 Mediterranean Cup 4 Oct 2019 | - | - | 59 kg | 59 | 85 | |||||
| 2019 World Weightlifting Championships 18 Sep 2019 | 21 | 187 | 59 kg | 58.95 | 86 | 101 | ||||
| 2019 European Championships 6 Apr 2019 | 13 | 197 | 64 kg | 63.76 | 85 | 89 | 91 | 106 | ||
| 2018 World Weightlifting Championships 1 Nov 2018 | 30 | 198 | 64 kg | 63.61 | 87 | 90 | 108 | |||
| 2018 European Championships 26 Mar 2018 | 7 | 191 | 63 kg | 62.7 | 86 | 102 | 105 | |||
| 2017 World Weightlifting Championships 27 Nov 2017 | 18 | 193 | 63 kg | 62.92 | 84 | 87 | 89 | 99 | 104 | |
| 2017 Summer Universiade 19 Aug 2017 | 10 | 191 | 63 kg | 62.82 | 86 | 101 | 105 | |||
| 2017 European Championships 1 Apr 2017 | 10 | 191 | 63 kg | 62.4 | 84 | 98 | 107 | |||
| 2015 European Championships 10 Apr 2015 | 12 | 164 | 58 kg | 57.93 | 73 | 91 |
Compare Saara Retulainen
Best lifts, Sinclair scores, medals and every meeting in the same class, side by side. Pick any lifter to set beside Saara Retulainen.