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Compare two weightlifters
Put any two lifters side by side: best snatch, clean and jerk and total, Sinclair scores that allow for bodyweight, Olympic and World medals, how often each made their attempts, and every time they met in the same class.
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Type a name and choose from the list; each entry carries the nation code, as in Li Fabin (CHN). The list holds the best-known lifters, and any other lifter on this site works too, typed in full.
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Comparisons to start with
The most decorated lifters, each paired with the next most decorated lifter whose best total came in a nearby class. Most of these pairs never shared a platform.
- Men's +109 and +105 kg Lasha Talakhadze vs Hossein Rezazadeh
- Men's 77 and 73 kg Lü Xiaojun vs Shi Zhiyong
- Men's 62 and 61 kg Halil Mutlu vs Li Fabin
- Men's 56 kg Long Qingquan vs Om Yun-chol
- Men's +109 and +105 kg Akbar Djuraev vs Behdad Salimi
- Men's 96 and 94 kg Kianoush Rostami vs Szymon Kołecki
- Women's +87 and +75 kg Li Wenwen vs Jang Mi-ran
- Women's 49 and 53 kg Hou Zhihui vs Hsu Shu-ching
- Women's 75 kg Rim Jong-sim vs Lydia Valentín
- Women's 58 and 59 kg Chen Yanqing vs Hidilyn Diaz
- Women's 64 and 58 kg Maude Charron vs Kuo Hsing-chun
- Women's 81 and 87 kg Neisi Dajomes vs Wang Zhouyu
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How the comparison works
- Sinclair score. The total scaled for bodyweight with the IWF's 2025 to 2028 coefficients, so a 61 kg lifter and a super-heavyweight sit on one scale. Women and men have separate formulas.
- Place in class. Where the best total stands among every lifter with a total in that class of the same IWF list on this site.
- Attempts made. The share of snatch and clean and jerk attempts made, against every lifter at the senior World Championships and Olympic Games since 1998. Results entered from medal tables carry no attempts.
- Head to head. Every competition where both lifted in the same class. One session scored for two championships counts once.