Mexico · Women's 55 kg, February 2024

Yesica Hernández

Yesica Hernández is a weightlifter from Mexico, born in 2001. The results below cover 15 competitions from 2017 to 2024. The latest result came in the women's 55 kg class, at the 2024 Pan-American Championships.

Best total
184 kg
Best snatch
82 kg
Best clean and jerk
103 kg
Career

Yesica Hernández's career: classes, totals and best lifts

No Olympic or World Championships medals.

Weight classes: 48 kg from 2017 to 2018, 49 kg from 2019 to 2023, 55 kg in 2024. The IWF changed its class list in November 2018 (48 kg to 49 kg) and again in June 2025. At 53.05 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 57 kg.

Latest result: 2024 Pan-American Championships, 24 February 2024, 55 kg, no total.

Yesica Hernández: totals from the 13 competitions with a total, 2017 to 2023, best 184 kg in 2022.15017019020172018201920202021202220232017 Youth World Weightlifting Championships, 3 Apr 2017: 156 kg2018 Pan-American Youth Championships, 3 Jun 2018: 165 kg2018 Youth Olympic Games, 6 Oct 2018: 171 kg2019 IWF World Cup (February), 22 Feb 2019: 160 kg2019 Pan-American Championships, 21 Apr 2019: 173 kg2019 Pan-American Junior Championships, 23 Jun 2019: 167 kg2020 Pan-American Junior Championships, 9 Jul 2021: 174 kg2021 Pan-American Junior Championships, 17 Oct 2021: 183 kg2021 Junior Pan American Games, 25 Nov 2021: 181 kg2022 Pan-American Championships, 24 Jul 2022: 181 kg2022 World Weightlifting Championships, 5 Dec 2022: 184 kg2023 Pan-American Championships, 25 Mar 2023: 182 kg2023 World Weightlifting Championships, 4 Sep 2023: 183 kg
Yesica Hernández: totals from the 13 competitions with a total, 2017 to 2023, best 184 kg in 2022.15017019020172019202120232017 Youth World Weightlifting Championships, 3 Apr 2017: 156 kg2018 Pan-American Youth Championships, 3 Jun 2018: 165 kg2018 Youth Olympic Games, 6 Oct 2018: 171 kg2019 IWF World Cup (February), 22 Feb 2019: 160 kg2019 Pan-American Championships, 21 Apr 2019: 173 kg2019 Pan-American Junior Championships, 23 Jun 2019: 167 kg2020 Pan-American Junior Championships, 9 Jul 2021: 174 kg2021 Pan-American Junior Championships, 17 Oct 2021: 183 kg2021 Junior Pan American Games, 25 Nov 2021: 181 kg2022 Pan-American Championships, 24 Jul 2022: 181 kg2022 World Weightlifting Championships, 5 Dec 2022: 184 kg2023 Pan-American Championships, 25 Mar 2023: 182 kg2023 World Weightlifting Championships, 4 Sep 2023: 183 kg
Total at each competition, in kilograms.

Best lifts in each class

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

Class Years Snatch Clean and jerk Total
55 kg2024 2024 - - -
49 kg2019 to 2023 2019 to 2023 82 103 184
48 kg2017 to 2018 2017 to 2018 74 97 171
Numbers

Yesica Hernández by the numbers

Yesica Hernández'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
282.8
From 184 kg at 48.8 kg bodyweight, 2022 World Weightlifting Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).
Best total, place in its class
38th of 309
184 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the women's 49 kg class (the class list of 2018 to 2025) on this site.
Snatch as a share of clean and jerk
80%
At the best total, 82 kg of 102 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
21
Turned 21 in 2022, the year of the best total.
Competitions with a total
13 of 15
Of the other two: one with no good lift in the snatch or the clean and jerk and one entered without taking an attempt.
Attempts

How often Yesica Hernández makes each attempt

Yesica Hernández made 67% of snatch attempts and 72% 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

Worlds and Olympics field: 74%
Yesica Hernández: 71%

Snatch, second attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 58%
Yesica Hernández: 64%

Snatch, third attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 41%
Yesica Hernández: 64%

Clean and jerk, first attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 77%
Yesica Hernández: 85%

Clean and jerk, second attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 57%
Yesica Hernández: 92%

Clean and jerk, third attempt

Worlds and Olympics field: 34%
Yesica Hernández: 38%
Rivals

Yesica Hernández head to head

The lifters Yesica Hernández 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 Yesica Hernández ahead Rival ahead
Dominican Republic Dahiana Ortiz 7 4 3
Venezuela Katherin Echandia 6 6 0
Mexico Andrea de la Herrán 5 3 2
United States Hayley Reichardt 4 0 4
United States Jourdan Delacruz 4 0 4
Anali Paola Saldarriaga Yovera 4 4 0
Results

Yesica Hernández'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.

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Competition Place Total Class Bodyweight Snatch 1 2 3 Clean and jerk 1 2 3
2024 Pan-American Championships 24 Feb 2024 - No lifts 55 kg 53.05 not takennot takennot takennot takennot takennot taken
2023 Pan-American Games 21 Oct 2023 - - 49 kg 49 77 kg missed77 kg missed77 kg missednot takennot takennot taken
2023 World Weightlifting Championships 4 Sep 2023 12 183 49 kg 49 788082 kg missed99103106 kg missed
2023 Pan-American Championships 25 Mar 2023 3 182 49 kg 48.65 75788198101105 kg missed
2022 World Weightlifting Championships 5 Dec 2022 9 184 49 kg 48.8 788082102 kg missed102106 kg missed
2022 Pan-American Championships 24 Jul 2022 7 181 49 kg 49 7880 kg missed8098101105 kg missed
2021 Junior Pan American Games 25 Nov 2021 2 181 49 kg 48.9 7881 kg missed81100102 kg missed105 kg missed
2021 Pan-American Junior Championships 17 Oct 2021 2 183 49 kg 48.8 75788096100103
2020 Pan-American Junior Championships 9 Jul 2021 2 174 49 kg 48.3 7375779397100 kg missed
2019 Pan-American Junior Championships 23 Jun 2019 2 167 49 kg 48.6 71 kg missed717493 kg missed9396 kg missed
2019 Pan-American Championships 21 Apr 2019 8 173 49 kg 48.75 7477 kg missed77 kg missed949799
2019 IWF World Cup (February) 22 Feb 2019 7 160 49 kg 48.9 70 kg missed7071 kg missed859093 kg missed
2018 Youth Olympic Games 6 Oct 2018 1 171 48 kg 47.24 72 kg missed7274929597
2018 Pan-American Youth Championships 3 Jun 2018 1 165 48 kg 47.35 6972 kg missed72879093
2017 Youth World Weightlifting Championships 3 Apr 2017 6 156 48 kg 47.91 646769 kg missed838689
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