Zak Taggart

No Olympic or World Championships medals.

Weight classes: 81 kg from 2024 to 2025, 88 kg in 2026. The IWF changed its class list in June 2025 (81 kg to 88 kg) and again in August 2026. At 85.9 kg, the weight at the last meet on record, the class today would be 95 kg.

Latest result: 2026 IWF World Junior Championships, 2 May 2026, 88 kg, total 276 kg, place 25.

Best lifts in each class

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

Zak Taggart'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

344.0

From 276 kg at 85.9 kg bodyweight, 2026 IWF World Junior Championships. The Sinclair formula scales a total for bodyweight (2025 to 2028 coefficients).

Best total, place in its class

116th of 143

276 kg, against the best total of every lifter in the men's 88 kg class (the class list of 2025 to 2026) on this site.

Snatch as a share of clean and jerk

83%

At the best total, 125 kg of 151 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

3 of 3

A total at every competition listed.

The lifters Zak Taggart has met most often in the same class, three times or more with both posting a total, and how often each finished ahead.

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.

Best lifts, Sinclair scores, medals and every meeting in the same class, side by side. Pick any lifter to set beside Zak Taggart.