Seán Brown

No Olympic or World Championships medals.

Weight classes: 85 kg in 2017, 81 kg from 2018 to 2021, 89 kg from 2022 to 2025, 88 kg in 2026. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (85 kg to 81 kg), June 2025 (89 kg to 88 kg) and August 2026. At 85.77 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 95 kg.

Latest result: 2026 European Championships, 19 April 2026, 88 kg, total 301 kg, place 18.

Best lifts in each class

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

Seán Brown'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

408.2

From 317 kg at 80.85 kg bodyweight, 2019 World Weightlifting Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).

Best total, place in its class

215th of 459

320 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the men's 89 kg class (the class list of 2018 to 2025) on this site.

Snatch as a share of clean and jerk

83%

At the best total, 145 kg of 175 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

16 of 17

The other ended without a total: no good lift in the snatch or the clean and jerk.

Seán Brown made 55% of snatch attempts and 59% 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 Seán Brown 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	Seán Brown ahead	Rival ahead
Andranik Karapetyan	7	0	7
Marin Robu	7	0	7
Nico Müller	7	0	7
Armands Mežinskis	6	0	6
Arturs Vasilonoks	6	0	6
Karlos Nasar	6	0	6

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.

Best lifts, Sinclair scores, medals and every meeting in the same class, side by side. The first pairs are the rivals Seán Brown met most often; the rest lifted in nearby classes, in any year.

• Rival Seán Brown vs Andranik Karapetyan
• Rival Seán Brown vs Marin Robu
• Rival Seán Brown vs Nico Müller
• Nearby class Seán Brown vs Szymon Kołecki
• Nearby class Seán Brown vs Pyrros Dimas
• Nearby class Seán Brown vs Giorgi Asanidze

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