Yaniuska Espinosa

No Olympic or World Championships medals.

Weight classes: +75 kg from 2005 to 2016, +90 kg from 2017 to 2018, +87 kg from 2019 to 2024. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (+90 kg to +87 kg) and again in June 2025. At 104.8 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be +86 kg.

Latest result: 2024 Pan-American Championships, 24 February 2024, +87 kg, total 225 kg, place 4.

Best lifts in each class

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

Yaniuska Espinosa'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

283.7

From 273 kg at 114.08 kg bodyweight, 2016 Olympic Games. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).

Best total, place in its class

33rd of 479

273 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the women's +75 kg class (the class list of 1998 to 2018) on this site.

Snatch as a share of clean and jerk

80%

At the best total, 121 kg of 152 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 2016, the year of the best total.

Competitions with a total

40 of 41

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

Yaniuska Espinosa made 69% of snatch attempts and 74% 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 Yaniuska Espinosa 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	Yaniuska Espinosa ahead	Rival ahead
Lisseth Ayoví	18	7	11
Sarah Robles	15	1	14
Naryury Pérez	15	11	4
Verónica Saladín	13	5	8
Oliba Nieve	13	7	6
Scarleth Ucelo	11	11	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. The first pairs are the rivals Yaniuska Espinosa met most often; the rest lifted in nearby classes, in any year.

• Rival Yaniuska Espinosa vs Lisseth Ayoví
• Rival Yaniuska Espinosa vs Sarah Robles
• Rival Yaniuska Espinosa vs Naryury Pérez
• Nearby class Yaniuska Espinosa vs Li Wenwen
• Nearby class Yaniuska Espinosa vs Jang Mi-ran
• Nearby class Yaniuska Espinosa vs Ding Meiyuan

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