Norway · Women's 53 kg, October 2025
Sol Anette Waaler
Sol Anette Waaler is a weightlifter from Norway, born in 1992. The results below cover 15 competitions from 2018 to 2025. The latest result came in the women's 53 kg class, at the 2025 World Weightlifting Championships.
- Best total
- 191 kg
- Best snatch
- 87 kg
- Best clean and jerk
- 107 kg
Sol Anette Waaler's career: classes, totals and best lifts
No Olympic or World Championships medals.
Weight classes: 58 kg in 2018, 59 kg from 2018 to 2023, 55 kg from 2023 to 2025, 53 kg in 2025. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (58 kg to 59 kg) and again in June 2025 (55 kg to 53 kg).
Latest result: 2025 World Weightlifting Championships, 2 October 2025, 53 kg, total 179 kg.
Best lifts in each class
The best snatch, clean and jerk and total in each class, newest first.
| Class | Snatch | Clean and jerk | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 53 kg2025 | 78 | 101 | 179 |
| 55 kg2023 to 2025 | 86 | 104 | 190 |
| 59 kg2018 to 2023 | 87 | 107 | 191 |
| 58 kg2018 | 80 | 99 | 179 |
Sol Anette Waaler by the numbers
Sol Anette Waaler'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
- 270.6
- From 190 kg at 54.63 kg bodyweight, 2024 European Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).
- Best total, place in its class
- 154th of 438
- 191 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
- 79%
- At the best total, 84 kg of 107 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
- 30
- Turned 30 in 2022, the year of the best total.
- Competitions with a total
- 14 of 15
- The other ended without a total: no good lift in the snatch or the clean and jerk.
How often Sol Anette Waaler makes each attempt
Sol Anette Waaler made 44% of snatch attempts and 47% 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
Sol Anette Waaler head to head
The lifters Sol Anette Waaler 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 | Sol Anette Waaler ahead | Rival ahead |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thuridur Erla Helgadottir | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 5 | 1 | 4 | |
| 5 | 4 | 1 | |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | |
| Dora Tchakounté | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 |
Sol Anette Waaler'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 World Weightlifting Championships 2 Oct 2025 | - | 179 | 53 kg | 52.17 | 78 | 98 | 101 | |||
| 2025 European Championships 13 Apr 2025 | - | - | 55 kg | 54.85 | 98 | 101 | ||||
| 2024 World Weightlifting Championships 6 Dec 2024 | 17 | 183 | 55 kg | 54.56 | 81 | 102 | ||||
| 2024 European Championships 12 Feb 2024 | 3 | 190 | 55 kg | 54.63 | 84 | 86 | 104 | |||
| 2023 World Weightlifting Championships 4 Sep 2023 | 10 | 188 | 55 kg | 54.63 | 83 | 86 | 102 | |||
| 2023 European Championships 15 Apr 2023 | 11 | 191 | 59 kg | 58 | 85 | 87 | 104 | |||
| 2022 European Championships 28 May 2022 | 10 | 191 | 59 kg | 58.35 | 84 | 102 | 105 | 107 | ||
| 2021 European Championships 3 Apr 2021 | 11 | 190 | 59 kg | 58.64 | 83 | 85 | 103 | 105 | ||
| Roma 2020 World Cup 27 Jan 2020 | 10 | 185 | 59 kg | 58.5 | 80 | 83 | 102 | |||
| 2019 Nordic Senior Championships 12 Oct 2019 | 1 | 184 | 59 kg | 58.7 | 81 | 103 | ||||
| 2019 World Weightlifting Championships 18 Sep 2019 | 22 | 187 | 59 kg | 58.85 | 82 | 105 | ||||
| 2019 British International Open 7 Jun 2019 | 1 | 187 | 59 kg | 58.75 | 82 | 105 | ||||
| 2019 European Championships 6 Apr 2019 | 15 | 189 | 59 kg | 58.32 | 83 | 106 | ||||
| 2018 International Qatar Cup 19 Dec 2018 | 8 | 182 | 59 kg | 58.3 | 81 | 101 | ||||
| 2018 European Championships 26 Mar 2018 | 5 | 179 | 58 kg | 57.38 | 77 | 80 | 97 | 99 |
Compare Sol Anette Waaler
Best lifts, Sinclair scores, medals and every meeting in the same class, side by side. The first pairs are the rivals Sol Anette Waaler met most often; the rest lifted in nearby classes, in any year.

