Shanaka Peters

No Olympic or World Championships medals.

Weight classes: 94 kg in 2014, 105 kg from 2015 to 2016, 94 kg from 2016 to 2018, 96 kg in 2021. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (94 kg to 96 kg) and again in June 2025. At 95.1 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 110 kg.

Latest result: 2021 World Weightlifting Championships, 7 December 2021, 96 kg, total 295 kg, place 29.

Best lifts in each class

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

Shanaka Peters'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

358.6

From 300 kg at 93.52 kg bodyweight, 2017 Commonwealth Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).

Best total, place in its class

714th of 1,113

300 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the men's 94 kg class (the class list of 1998 to 2018) on this site.

Snatch as a share of clean and jerk

76%

At the best total, 130 kg of 170 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 2017, the year of the best total.

Competitions with a total

6 of 7

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

Shanaka Peters made 52% of snatch attempts and 44% 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 Shanaka Peters 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	Shanaka Peters ahead	Rival ahead
Steven Kari	3	0	3
Vikas Thakur	3	0	3

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.

Swipe the table sideways to see every attempt.

Best lifts, Sinclair scores, medals and every meeting in the same class, side by side. Pick any lifter to set beside Shanaka Peters.