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
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.
Best lifts in each class
The best snatch, clean and jerk and total in each class, newest first.
| Class | Snatch | Clean and jerk | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 109 kg2018 to 2025 | 177 | 220 | 395 |
| 105 kg2015 to 2018 | 174 | 222 | 394 |
| 85 kg2009 | 133 | 170 | 303 |
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.
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
Snatch, second attempt
Snatch, third attempt
Clean and jerk, first attempt
Clean and jerk, second attempt
Clean and jerk, third attempt
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 |
| 5 | 1 | 4 | |
| 5 | 1 | 4 | |
| Ryunosuke Mochida | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Hiroaki Shiraishi | 5 | 5 | 0 |
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 | 210 | ||||
| 2024 World Weightlifting Championships 6 Dec 2024 | 19 | 357 | 109 kg | 108.9 | 163 | 194 | ||||
| 2020 Asian Championships 17 Apr 2021 | - | - | 109 kg | 108.7 | 177 | not taken | not taken | |||
| Roma 2020 World Cup 27 Jan 2020 | 5 | 380 | 109 kg | 108.7 | 167 | 213 | ||||
| 2019 IWF World Cup (December) 10 Dec 2019 | 4 | 383 | 109 kg | 108.73 | 172 | 211 | ||||
| 2019 World Weightlifting Championships 18 Sep 2019 | 11 | 389 | 109 kg | 108.75 | 170 | 215 | 219 | |||
| Ready Steady Tokyo (Tokyo 2020 Test Event) 6 Jul 2019 | 3 | 386 | 109 kg | 108.6 | 165 | 171 | 210 | 215 | ||
| 2019 Asian Championships 18 Apr 2019 | 8 | 375 | 109 kg | 108.59 | 165 | 210 | not taken | |||
| 2019 EGAT's Cup International Weightlifting Championships 7 Jan 2019 | 1 | 378 | 109 kg | 108.35 | 166 | 173 | 205 | not taken | not taken | |
| 2018 World Weightlifting Championships 1 Nov 2018 | 7 | 395 | 109 kg | 107.87 | 170 | 175 | 210 | 220 | ||
| 2018 Asian Games 20 Aug 2018 | 5 | 394 | 105 kg | 104.94 | 174 | 220 | ||||
| 2017 World Weightlifting Championships 27 Nov 2017 | 4 | 394 | 105 kg | 104.78 | 172 | 216 | 222 | |||
| 2017 Asian Championships 21 Apr 2017 | 2 | 390 | 105 kg | 104.87 | 170 | 205 | 220 | |||
| 2016 Asian Championships 22 Apr 2016 | - | - | 105 kg | 104.4 | 170 | |||||
| 2015 World Weightlifting Championships 20 Nov 2015 | - | - | 105 kg | 104.65 | 170 | |||||
| 2015 Asian Championships 6 Sep 2015 | 1 | 381 | 105 kg | 104.42 | 170 | not taken | not taken | 211 | ||
| 2009 Youth World Weightlifting Championships 19 May 2009 | 5 | 303 | 85 kg | 84.15 | 133 | 170 |
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.

