Continental, youth · August 2025

2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships

The 2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships began on 15 August 2025, with 43 lifters in 15 classes. This competition was decided within the 2025 African Junior Championships. The lifts counted for both, with places ranked within each field. Gold went to Herman Onjatiana (56 kg, 187 kg), Qossey Chaabi (60 kg, 202 kg), Sadek Mohamed (65 kg, 238 kg), Tewarry Mohamed Islam (71 kg, 244 kg), Ali Ali (79 kg, 309 kg), David Hercule Matam Sandje (88 kg, 275 kg) and Abdelrahem Kurban (94 kg, 205 kg) for the men, and Marwa En-Namli (44 kg, 90 kg), Chinaza Cecelia Ezenwa (48 kg, 136 kg), Yasmine Radhouani (53 kg, 143 kg), Florence Oluwadamilare Olarinoye (58 kg, 157 kg), Mercy Kerubo (63 kg, 165 kg), Abeer Elfedawy (69 kg, 200 kg), Ghofrane Ghrissa (77 kg, 182 kg) and Naoui Zeineb (+77 kg, 187 kg) for the women.

Lifters
43
Classes
15
Start date
15 Aug 2025
Numbers

The 2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships in numbers

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

Attempts made
72%
187 good lifts from the 258 attempts taken. For comparison, lifters at senior World Championships and Olympic Games since 1998 make 57%.
Lifters without a total
2 of 43
Each had no good lift in the snatch or the clean and jerk.

Winning margin in each class

The winner's total minus the runner-up's. The closest finals: Men's 56 kg and Men's 71 kg each came down to 1 kg between gold and silver. The widest: Men's 79 kg by 64 kg. A short bar is a close final; a long one, a class the winner had to themselves.

Men's 56 kg

1 kg

Men's 60 kg

2 kg

Men's 65 kg

7 kg

Men's 71 kg

1 kg

Men's 79 kg

64 kg

Men's 88 kg

41 kg

Women's 48 kg

12 kg

Women's 58 kg

7 kg

Women's 69 kg

37 kg

Women's 77 kg

6 kg

Women's +77 kg

59 kg
Results

Results by class

All competitions

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.

Men's 56 kg, 2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships

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Place Athlete Total Nation Bodyweight Snatch Clean and jerk
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
1 Herman Onjatiana 187 56 77 kg missed7781100103106
2 Haroun Moussa 186 55.8 76788295101104
3 Mahmoud Abdulhamid 153 56 657077 kg missed758183
4 Thabo Munyengwa 144 53.6 586266 kg missed71 kg missed7682
5 Zadok Nii Amul Dodoo 125 54.8 54 kg missed55 kg missed55657073 kg missed
6 Ace wood Waiyaki 124 42.9 5055 kg missed566468 kg missed68

Men's 60 kg, 2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships

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Place Athlete Total Nation Bodyweight Snatch Clean and jerk
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
1 Qossey Chaabi 202 58.5 869293 kg missed107 kg missed107110
2 Ian Okinyi Adongo 200 59 8590 kg missed92105108111 kg missed
3 Francis Kondeh 185 60 70808590100105 kg missed
4 Mahmoud Qanaw 169 59.5 707581 kg missed809194

Men's 65 kg, 2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships

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Place Athlete Total Nation Bodyweight Snatch Clean and jerk
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
1 Sadek Mohamed 238 64.15 97101103127131135
2 Gaston Yemgoua Wafo 231 64.5 90 kg missed95100 kg missed126131136
3 Golge Tarwirei 150 63.4 626670707580

Men's 71 kg, 2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships

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Place Athlete Total Nation Bodyweight Snatch Clean and jerk
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
1 Tewarry Mohamed Islam 244 68.2 107112 kg missed112 kg missed132137143 kg missed
2 Abdulrauf Khalleefah 243 70.6 106 kg missed107113125130135 kg missed

Men's 79 kg, 2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships

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Place Athlete Total Nation Bodyweight Snatch Clean and jerk
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
1 Ali Ali 309 77.9 135 kg missed135142155167174 kg missed
2 Mohammed Albakhnasi 245 78.3 97108113125132140 kg missed

Men's 88 kg, 2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships

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Place Athlete Total Nation Bodyweight Snatch Clean and jerk
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
1 David Hercule Matam Sandje 275 81.4 115125130 kg missed140150153 kg missed
2 Donovan Madanamoothoo 234 82.7 90100103115125131

Men's 94 kg, 2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships

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Place Athlete Total Nation Bodyweight Snatch Clean and jerk
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
1 Abdelrahem Kurban 205 90.6 8593100105120 kg missed120 kg missed

Women's 44 kg, 2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships

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Place Athlete Total Nation Bodyweight Snatch Clean and jerk
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
1 Marwa En-Namli 90 43.8 4049 kg missed51 kg missed5058 kg missed60 kg missed

Women's 48 kg, 2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships

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Place Athlete Total Nation Bodyweight Snatch Clean and jerk
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
1 Chinaza Cecelia Ezenwa 136 47 555863707377 kg missed
2 Tendry Tsiky Mahay Tia Rakotonoely 124 47.8 515456626568
3 Lina Amanda Omondi 100 47.2 434547 kg missed505558 kg missed
4 Theresa Lanyoh 80 48 303335404345

Women's 53 kg, 2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships

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Place Athlete Total Nation Bodyweight Snatch Clean and jerk
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
1 Yasmine Radhouani 143 51.1 576365737881 kg missed

Women's 58 kg, 2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships

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Place Athlete Total Nation Bodyweight Snatch Clean and jerk
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
1 Florence Oluwadamilare Olarinoye 157 57.7 66697182 kg missed8286
2 Inas Dris 150 58 6570 kg missed7080 kg missed8087 kg missed
3 Yayra Akos Agozi 116 57 5154 kg missed54 kg missed586165
- Khadija Bouzian - 57.4 505254 kg missed58 kg missed59 kg missed61 kg missed

Women's 63 kg, 2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships

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Place Athlete Total Nation Bodyweight Snatch Clean and jerk
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
1 Mercy Kerubo 165 61.9 73 kg missed737590 kg missed9092 kg missed
- Soloniaina chainah Andriamparany - 62.7 69 kg missed70 kg missed70 kg missed869198 kg missed

Women's 69 kg, 2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships

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Place Athlete Total Nation Bodyweight Snatch Clean and jerk
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
1 Abeer Elfedawy 200 68.7 808691100109 kg missed109
2 Eya El Ghali 163 67.3 657073 kg missed829093
3 Sheriffa Halidu 110 65.3 4345 kg missed47525763
4 Fuseina Ali 99 68.5 43 kg missed4344 kg missed475156

Women's 77 kg, 2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships

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Place Athlete Total Nation Bodyweight Snatch Clean and jerk
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
1 Ghofrane Ghrissa 182 73.8 7681 kg missed8194101107 kg missed
2 Sondous Mahmoud 176 74.9 7681 kg missed82 kg missed91100107 kg missed

Women's +77 kg, 2025 African Youth Weightlifting Championships

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Place Athlete Total Nation Bodyweight Snatch Clean and jerk
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
1 Naoui Zeineb 187 85.3 8389 kg missed8998 kg missed98102 kg missed
2 Dunay Vermeulen 128 101.7 535660 kg missed687276 kg missed
3 Yahna Soopal 112 97.9 404649516063
4 Joana Dede Vanderpuye 94 83.8 404549 kg missed454749
5 Baaba Adwoa Barnes 94 109.6 404448 kg missed464850