Hou Zhihui and Sarah De Coster, compared on every result on this site. Hou Zhihui's best total is 217 kg (women's 49 kg, 2024); Sarah De Coster's is 147 kg (women's 53 kg, 2008). On the Sinclair scale, which allows for bodyweight, Hou Zhihui is ahead by 118.0 points. They never met in the same class.
Sinclair score. The total scaled for bodyweight with the IWF's 2025 to 2028 coefficients, so lifters from different classes sit on one scale. Women and men have separate formulas.
Place in its class. Where the best total stands among every lifter with a total in that class on this site, on the IWF class list in force at the time.
Attempts made. The share of all snatch or clean and jerk attempts the lifter made. At senior World Championships and Olympic Games since 1998, lifters make 58% of snatches and 56% of clean and jerks.
Snatch as a share of clean and jerk. The snatch divided by the clean and jerk at the best total. It describes the shape of a lifter, not strength, so it is not in bold; eight in ten women lifting in national federation meets sit between 70% and 85%.
World records held now. Records on the IWF class list in force since 1 August 2026. A record set in a class that list retired does not carry over, so a past record holder can show none.
Head to head
Hou Zhihui vs Sarah De Coster head to head
Hou Zhihui and Sarah De Coster never lifted in the same class at the same competition. The results here run from 2015 to 2024 for Hou Zhihui and 2005 to 2009 for Sarah De Coster, so the side by side figures and the chart are the comparison.
Careers
Hou Zhihui and Sarah De Coster, competition by competition
The Sinclair score at each competition: the total scaled for bodyweight, so lifters from different classes sit on one scale. Competitions that ended without a total or a bodyweight have no point.
Hou Zhihui: round pointsSarah De Coster: square points
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Lifters whose best totals came in nearby classes, from any year.
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