Vaipava Ioane

No Olympic or World Championships medals.

Weight classes: 56 kg in 2010, 62 kg from 2011 to 2015, 69 kg in 2015, 62 kg in 2016, 69 kg from 2017 to 2018, 67 kg from 2019 to 2024. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (69 kg to 67 kg) and again in June 2025. At 66.64 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 70 kg.

Latest result: 2024 Oceania Championships, 21 February 2024, 67 kg, total 282 kg, place 1.

Best lifts in each class

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

Vaipava Ioane'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

431.6

From 283 kg at 61.95 kg bodyweight, 2016 Oceanian Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).

Best total, place in its class

294th of 1,135

296 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the men's 69 kg class (the class list of 1998 to 2018) on this site.

Snatch as a share of clean and jerk

74%

At the best total, 126 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

29

Turned 29 in 2017, the year of the best total.

Competitions with a total

23 of 23

A total at every competition listed.

Vaipava Ioane made 54% of snatch attempts and 56% 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 Vaipava Ioane 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	Vaipava Ioane ahead	Rival ahead
Ruben Katoatau	9	8	1
Morea Baru	6	3	3
Larko Doguape	5	5	0
Gareth Evans	4	3	1
Brandon Wakeling	4	4	0
Ditto Titus Ika	4	4	0

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 Vaipava Ioane.