Men's 109 kg, May 2025

Seo Hui-yeop

Seo Hui-yeop is a weightlifter, born in 1992. The results below cover 17 competitions from 2009 to 2025. The latest result came in the men's 109 kg class, at the 2025 Asian Championships.

Best total
395 kg
Best snatch
177 kg
Best clean and jerk
222 kg
Career

Seo Hui-yeop's career: classes, totals and best lifts

No Olympic or World Championships medals.

Weight classes: 85 kg in 2009, 105 kg from 2015 to 2018, 109 kg from 2018 to 2025. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (105 kg to 109 kg) and again in June 2025. At 108.92 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 110 kg.

Latest result: 2025 Asian Championships, 9 May 2025, 109 kg, total 370 kg, place 5.

Seo Hui-yeop: totals from the 14 competitions with a total, 2009 to 2025, best 395 kg in 2018.290345400200920132017202120252009 Youth World Weightlifting Championships, 19 May 2009: 303 kg2015 Asian Championships, 6 Sep 2015: 381 kg2017 Asian Championships, 21 Apr 2017: 390 kg2017 World Weightlifting Championships, 27 Nov 2017: 394 kg2018 Asian Games, 20 Aug 2018: 394 kg2018 World Weightlifting Championships, 1 Nov 2018: 395 kg2019 EGAT's Cup International Weightlifting Championships, 7 Jan 2019: 378 kg2019 Asian Championships, 18 Apr 2019: 375 kgReady Steady Tokyo (Tokyo 2020 Test Event), 6 Jul 2019: 386 kg2019 World Weightlifting Championships, 18 Sep 2019: 389 kg2019 IWF World Cup (December), 10 Dec 2019: 383 kgRoma 2020 World Cup, 27 Jan 2020: 380 kg2024 World Weightlifting Championships, 6 Dec 2024: 357 kg2025 Asian Championships, 9 May 2025: 370 kg
Seo Hui-yeop: totals from the 14 competitions with a total, 2009 to 2025, best 395 kg in 2018.290345400200920132017202120252009 Youth World Weightlifting Championships, 19 May 2009: 303 kg2015 Asian Championships, 6 Sep 2015: 381 kg2017 Asian Championships, 21 Apr 2017: 390 kg2017 World Weightlifting Championships, 27 Nov 2017: 394 kg2018 Asian Games, 20 Aug 2018: 394 kg2018 World Weightlifting Championships, 1 Nov 2018: 395 kg2019 EGAT's Cup International Weightlifting Championships, 7 Jan 2019: 378 kg2019 Asian Championships, 18 Apr 2019: 375 kgReady Steady Tokyo (Tokyo 2020 Test Event), 6 Jul 2019: 386 kg2019 World Weightlifting Championships, 18 Sep 2019: 389 kg2019 IWF World Cup (December), 10 Dec 2019: 383 kgRoma 2020 World Cup, 27 Jan 2020: 380 kg2024 World Weightlifting Championships, 6 Dec 2024: 357 kg2025 Asian Championships, 9 May 2025: 370 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
109 kg2018 to 2025 2018 to 2025 177 220 395
105 kg2015 to 2018 2015 to 2018 174 222 394
85 kg2009 2009 133 170 303
Numbers

Seo Hui-yeop by the numbers

Seo Hui-yeop'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
448.5
From 394 kg at 104.78 kg bodyweight, 2017 World Weightlifting Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).
Best total, place in its class
29th of 300
395 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the men's 109 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, 175 kg of 220 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%.
Age at best total
26
Turned 26 in 2018, the year of the best total.
Competitions with a total
14 of 17
The others ended without a total: no good lift in the snatch or the clean and jerk.
Attempts

How often Seo Hui-yeop makes each attempt

Seo Hui-yeop made 41% of snatch attempts and 41% 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%
Seo Hui-yeop: 53%

Snatch, second attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 58%
Seo Hui-yeop: 63%

Snatch, third attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 41%
Seo Hui-yeop: 6%

Clean and jerk, first attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 77%
Seo Hui-yeop: 71%

Clean and jerk, second attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 57%
Seo Hui-yeop: 27%

Clean and jerk, third attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 34%
Seo Hui-yeop: 21%
Rivals

Seo Hui-yeop head to head

The lifters Seo Hui-yeop 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 Seo Hui-yeop ahead Rival ahead
Ibragim Bersanov 7 5 2
Jeong Kisam 6 3 3
Uzbekistan Akbar Djuraev 5 1 4
Iran Ali Hashemi 5 1 4
Ryunosuke Mochida 5 3 2
Hiroaki Shiraishi 5 5 0
Results

Seo Hui-yeop'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 Asian Championships 9 May 2025 5 370 109 kg 108.92 160 kg missed160170 kg missed210215 kg missed215 kg missed
2024 World Weightlifting Championships 6 Dec 2024 19 357 109 kg 108.9 163 kg missed163167 kg missed194200 kg missed200 kg missed
2020 Asian Championships 17 Apr 2021 - - 109 kg 108.7 177 kg missed177181 kg missed221 kg missednot takennot taken
Roma 2020 World Cup 27 Jan 2020 5 380 109 kg 108.7 167 kg missed167172 kg missed213216 kg missed216 kg missed
2019 IWF World Cup (December) 10 Dec 2019 4 383 109 kg 108.73 172 kg missed172177 kg missed210 kg missed211 kg missed211
2019 World Weightlifting Championships 18 Sep 2019 11 389 109 kg 108.75 170 kg missed170175 kg missed215219 kg missed219
Ready Steady Tokyo (Tokyo 2020 Test Event) 6 Jul 2019 3 386 109 kg 108.6 165171181 kg missed210215218 kg missed
2019 Asian Championships 18 Apr 2019 8 375 109 kg 108.59 165 kg missed165176 kg missed210218 kg missednot taken
2019 EGAT's Cup International Weightlifting Championships 7 Jan 2019 1 378 109 kg 108.35 166173177 kg missed205not takennot taken
2018 World Weightlifting Championships 1 Nov 2018 7 395 109 kg 107.87 170175180 kg missed210220227 kg missed
2018 Asian Games 20 Aug 2018 5 394 105 kg 104.94 174 kg missed174 kg missed174220227 kg missed227 kg missed
2017 World Weightlifting Championships 27 Nov 2017 4 394 105 kg 104.78 172177 kg missed177 kg missed216222228 kg missed
2017 Asian Championships 21 Apr 2017 2 390 105 kg 104.87 170176 kg missed176 kg missed205215 kg missed220
2016 Asian Championships 22 Apr 2016 - - 105 kg 104.4 170175 kg missed175 kg missed216 kg missed216 kg missed216 kg missed
2015 World Weightlifting Championships 20 Nov 2015 - - 105 kg 104.65 170175 kg missed175 kg missed215 kg missed215 kg missed215 kg missed
2015 Asian Championships 6 Sep 2015 1 381 105 kg 104.42 170not takennot taken211 kg missed211221 kg missed
2009 Youth World Weightlifting Championships 19 May 2009 5 303 85 kg 84.15 133138 kg missed140 kg missed170175 kg missed175 kg missed
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Compare Seo Hui-yeop

Best lifts, Sinclair scores, medals and every meeting in the same class, side by side. Pick any lifter to set beside Seo Hui-yeop.