Season 1998

Weightlifting Rankings 1998

The ten best totals (snatch plus clean and jerk) of 1998 in every weightlifting class, one per lifter, from every international competition in the results, Olympic Games and World Championships down to continental and junior meets. These are the season's best totals, not the IWF's Olympic qualification ranking.

Classes ranked
15
Lifters listed
150
Rankings

Best totals of 1998 by class

All competitions

Each lifter appears once per class, with their best total of the season and where they made it. The classes are the IWF weight classes in force at the last meet of 1998.

Men's 56 kg rankings, 1998

# Lifter Total Competition
1 Turkey Halil Mutlu 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 295 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
2 China Lan Shizhang 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 285 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
3 Cuba William Vargas 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 282.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
4 Bulgaria Ivan Ivanov 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 282.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
5 Luo Zhongnan 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 270 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
6 Romania Adrian Jigău 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 262.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
7 Romania Traian Cihărean 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 260 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
8 Cuba Sergio Álvarez 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 257.5 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
9 Ukraine Oleksandr Likhvald 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 252.5 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
10 France Eric Bonnel 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 252.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998

Men's 62 kg rankings, 1998

# Lifter Total Competition
1 Greece Leonidas Sabanis 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 320 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
2 Bulgaria Nikolaj Pešalov 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 317.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
3 China Le Maosheng 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 315 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
4 Su Feixiang 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 310 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
5 Bulgaria Sevdalin Minchev 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 310 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
6 Valentin Sarov 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 302.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
7 Hungary Zoltán Farkas 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 302.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
8 Turkey Hafız Süleymanoğlu 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 295 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
9 Moldova Vladimir Popov 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 295 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
10 Yu Tingxiao 1998 University World Cup 290 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998

Men's 69 kg rankings, 1998

# Lifter Total Competition
1 Bulgaria Plamen Zhelyazkov 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 350 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
2 China Wan Jianhui 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 340 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
3 Greece Georgios Tzelilis 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 340 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
4 Bulgaria Galabin Boevski 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 337.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
5 Greece Valerios Leonidis 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 335 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
6 Wan Jianghui 1998 University World Cup 332.5 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998
7 Russia Andrey Matveev 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 332.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
8 Belarus Siarhei Laurenau 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 330 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
9 Yang Cunkang 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 330 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
10 Turkey Ergün Batmaz 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 322.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998

Men's 77 kg rankings, 1998

# Lifter Total Competition
1 Bulgaria Zlatan Vanev 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 365 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
2 Qatar Badr Salem Nayef 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 362.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
3 Greece Viktor Mitrou 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 360 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
4 Turkey Mehmet Yılmaz 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 360 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
5 Georgia Giorgi Asanidze 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 357.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
6 Germany Ingo Steinhöfel 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 357.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
7 Armenia Khachatur Kyapanaktsyan 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 355 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
8 Arkadiusz Smolka 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 355 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
9 Idalberto Aranda 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 352.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
10 Belarus Oleg Kechko 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 350 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998

Men's 85 kg rankings, 1998

# Lifter Total Competition
1 China Zhang Yong 1998 University World Cup 387.5 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998
2 Greece Pyrros Dimas 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 387.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
3 Germany Marc Huster 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 385 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
4 Russia Yury Myshkovets 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 382.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
5 Jurie Conjuhari 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 380 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
6 Turkey Dursun Sevinç 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 377.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
7 Bulgaria Georgi Gardev 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 377.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
8 Kiril Kounev 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 375 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
9 Poland Krzysztof Siemion 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 375 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
10 China Yuan Aijun 1998 University World Cup 357.5 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998

Men's 94 kg rankings, 1998

# Lifter Total Competition
1 Greece Kakhi Kakhiashvili 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 400 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
2 Germany Oliver Caruso 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 395 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
3 Greece Leonidas Kokas 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 392.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
4 Poland Tadeusz Drzazga 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 390 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
5 Poland Szymon Kołecki 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 385 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
6 Turkey Bünyamin Sudaş 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 380 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
7 Venezuela Julio Luna 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 375 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
8 Nikolai Stoyanov 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 372.5 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
9 Ukraine Stanislav Rybalchenko 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 372.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
10 Mikhail Khomiakov 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 372.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998

Men's 105 kg rankings, 1998

# Lifter Total Competition
1 Ukraine Ihor Razoronov 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 422.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
2 China Cui Wenhua 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 420 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
3 Ukraine Denys Hotfrid 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 415 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
4 Russia Yevgeny Shishlyannikov 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 410 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
5 Slovakia Martin Tešovič 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 407.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
6 Russia Sergey Syrtsov 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 405 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
7 Vladimir Emelianov 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 392.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
8 Georgia Mukhran Gogia 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 390 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
9 Hungary Péter Tamton 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 385 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
10 Dimitri Prochorow 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 385 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998

Men's +105 kg rankings, 1998

# Lifter Total Competition
1 Russia Andrei Chemerkin 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 437.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
2 Armenia Ara Vardanyan 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 427.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
3 Latvia Viktors Ščerbatihs 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 422.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
4 Poland Paweł Najdek 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 407.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
5 Alekos Panatidis 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 405 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
6 Ukraine Artem Udachyn 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 397.5 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
7 Germany Andre Rohde 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 387.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
8 Bulgaria Damian Damianov 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 385 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
9 Russia Roman Meshcheryakov 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 385 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
10 Spain Jon Tecedor 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 385 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998

Women's 48 kg rankings, 1998

# Lifter Total Competition
1 China Li Xuezhao 1998 University World Cup 192.5 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998
2 China Li Yunli 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 182.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
3 Japan Kaori Niyanagi 1998 University World Cup 172.5 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998
4 Chu Nan-mei 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 172.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
5 Tsai Huey-woan 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 172.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
6 Siyka Stoeva 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 167.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
7 United States Tara Cunningham 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 167.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
8 Japan Masumi Imaoka 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 167.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
9 Luo Xiaoqin 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 165 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
10 Thailand Udomporn Polsak 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 165 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998

Women's 53 kg rankings, 1998

# Lifter Total Competition
1 China Wang Xiufen 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 210 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
2 Guo Huibing 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 205 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
3 Bulgaria Izabela Dragneva 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 192.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
4 Zhong Yan 1998 University World Cup 182.5 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998
5 United States Robin Goad 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 182.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
6 Taengmo Muangpho 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 180 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
7 Huang Chin-Hsiu 1998 University World Cup 172.5 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998
8 Slovakia Dagmar Daneková 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 172.5 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
9 Nancy Maneiro 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 170 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
10 Spain Estefanía Juan Tello 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 170 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998

Women's 58 kg rankings, 1998

# Lifter Total Competition
1 China Chen Yanqing 1998 University World Cup 220 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998
2 Xiongying Xiu 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 210 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
3 China Song Zhijuan 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 207.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
4 China Kuo Ping-chun 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 207.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
5 Canada Maryse Turcotte 1998 University World Cup 200 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998
6 Bulgaria Neli Yankova 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 200 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
7 Greece Maria Christoforidou 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 190 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
8 Yi-Hui Ou 1998 University World Cup 185 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998
9 Canada Miel McGerrigle 1998 University World Cup 185 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998
10 Poland Dominika Misterska 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 185 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998

Women's 63 kg rankings, 1998

# Lifter Total Competition
1 Weiwei Diao 1998 University World Cup 230 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998
2 Hou Kangfeng 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 225 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
3 China Shi Lihua 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 225 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
4 Chen Jui-lien 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 225 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
5 Russia Valentina Popova 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 215 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
6 Aneta Szczepańska 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 202.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
7 Huang Shu-Mei 1998 University World Cup 200 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998
8 Alejandra Maria Perea 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 192.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
9 Spain Josefa Pérez 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 192.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
10 Canada Nancy Niro 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 190 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998

Women's 69 kg rankings, 1998

# Lifter Total Competition
1 China Tang Weifang 1998 University World Cup 242.5 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998
2 China Shang Shichun 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 232.5 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
3 China Wu Chi-tsen 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 227.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
4 Russia Irina Kasimova 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 225 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
5 Hungary Erzsébet Márkus 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 222.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
6 Poland Beata Prei 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 217.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
7 Thailand Pawina Thongsuk 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 215 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
8 Bulgaria Daniela Kerkelova 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 212.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
9 Park Mi-jung 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 207.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
10 Hungary Gyöngyi Likerecz 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 205 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998

Women's 75 kg rankings, 1998

# Lifter Total Competition
1 Pingtian Yue 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 235 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
2 Finland Karoliina Lundahl 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 230 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
3 China Sun Yakun 1998 University World Cup 227.5 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998
4 Turkey Şule Şahbaz 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 220 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
5 Cara Heads 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 217.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
6 Hungary Mária Takács 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 217.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
7 Spain Mónica Carrió 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 217.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
8 France Line Mary 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 215 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
9 Radomíra Ševčíková 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 215 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
10 Canada Jeane Lassen 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 205 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998

Women's +75 kg rankings, 1998

# Lifter Total Competition
1 China Tang Gonghong 1998 University World Cup 267.5 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998
2 Zhang Nan 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 257.5 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
3 China Chen Hsiao-lien 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 245 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
4 Colombia María Isabel Urrutia 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 242.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
5 Poland Agata Wróbel 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 242.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
6 Monique Riesterer 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 232.5 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
7 Victoria Roudenok 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 230 1998 World Weightlifting Championships 10 Nov 1998
8 Cheng Chia-Yi 1998 University World Cup 225 1998 University World Cup 24 Apr 1998
9 United States Cheryl Haworth 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 222.5 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
10 Rodriguez Lourdes Gorostegui 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 222.5 1998 Junior World Weightlifting Championships 18 May 1998
Seasons

Weightlifting rankings for every season since 1998

Sources

  • Results data: OpenWeightlifting, up to 23 July 2026.

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