Vernon Leslie Taylor

No Olympic or World Championships medals.

Weight classes: 85 kg in 2014, 94 kg from 2015 to 2016, 105 kg in 2016, 94 kg from 2016 to 2017, 71 kg in 2025. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (94 kg to 71 kg), June 2025 (94 kg to 71 kg) and August 2026. At 70.55 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 75 kg.

Latest result: 2025 Pacific Mini Games + Oceania Championships, 1 July 2025, 71 kg, total 255 kg, place 4.

Best lifts in each class

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

Vernon Leslie Taylor'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

356.2

From 255 kg at 70.55 kg bodyweight, 2025 Pacific Mini Games + Oceania Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).

Best total, place in its class

684th of 888

291 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the men's 105 kg class (the class list of 1998 to 2018) on this site.

Snatch as a share of clean and jerk

82%

At the best total, 131 kg of 160 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%.

Competitions with a total

7 of 9

Of the other two: one with no good lift in the snatch or the clean and jerk and one with a good lift in each but no total in the published results.

Vernon Leslie Taylor made 67% of snatch attempts and 48% 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.

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. These lifters lifted in nearby classes, in any year.

• Nearby class Vernon Leslie Taylor vs Ruslan Nurudinov
• Nearby class Vernon Leslie Taylor vs Andrei Aramnau
• Nearby class Vernon Leslie Taylor vs Liu Huanhua
• Nearby class Vernon Leslie Taylor vs Navab Nassirshalal
• Nearby class Vernon Leslie Taylor vs Dmitry Berestov
• Nearby class Vernon Leslie Taylor vs Hossein Tavakkoli

Compare with any lifter