2008 African Weightlifting Championships

How close each class finished and how often the lifters made their attempts.

Attempts made

62%

478 good lifts from the 772 attempts taken. For comparison, lifters at senior World Championships and Olympic Games since 1998 make 57%.

Lifters without a total

14 of 131

Eight with no good lift in the snatch or the clean and jerk, one entered without taking an attempt and five with a good lift in each but no total in the published results.

Winning margin in each class

The winner's total minus the runner-up's. The closest finals: Men's 77 kg and Men's 85 kg each came down to 1 kg between gold and silver. The widest: Men's +105 kg by 82 kg. A short bar is a close final; a long one, a class the winner had to themselves.

Each class lists the place, the total and all six attempts. A struck-through weight is a missed attempt and a dash an attempt not taken. A dash in the place column means no total was recorded, most often after three misses in the snatch or in the clean and jerk. Where two lifters tie and the results cannot separate them, both are shown without a place.