Ratios
Snatch to Clean and Jerk Ratio
For men at national meets the snatch is typically 79% of the clean and jerk, and eight in ten fall between 71% and 86%. For women the middle is 78%, with eight in ten between 70% and 85%.
- Typical ratio, men
- 79%
- Typical ratio, women
- 78%
- Lifter-seasons
- 214,187
Men's snatch to clean and jerk ratio by class
The median is between 77% and 79% in every men's class, so bodyweight barely changes the ratio. The rows are today's weight classes, in force since August 2026. Eight in ten lifters in a class sit between its 10th and 90th percentile figures. One lifter-season is a lifter's best total of a season, with the snatch and clean and jerk from that meet, so a lifter who competed for five years counts five times.
| Class | Percentile | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 10th | Median | 90th | |
| 60 kg10,004 seasons | 68% | 77% | 86% |
| 65 kg4,887 seasons | 71% | 78% | 86% |
| 70 kg8,496 seasons | 71% | 79% | 85% |
| 75 kg10,927 seasons | 71% | 79% | 86% |
| 85 kg30,334 seasons | 72% | 79% | 85% |
| 95 kg25,103 seasons | 72% | 79% | 86% |
| 110 kg17,203 seasons | 71% | 79% | 86% |
| +110 kg7,112 seasons | 71% | 78% | 85% |
Women's snatch to clean and jerk ratio by class
The median is between 77% and 78% in every women's class, so bodyweight barely changes the ratio.
| Class | Percentile | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 10th | Median | 90th | |
| 49 kg7,497 seasons | 68% | 77% | 85% |
| 53 kg5,408 seasons | 69% | 77% | 85% |
| 57 kg9,348 seasons | 70% | 78% | 85% |
| 61 kg12,767 seasons | 70% | 78% | 85% |
| 69 kg28,052 seasons | 70% | 78% | 85% |
| 77 kg18,405 seasons | 70% | 78% | 86% |
| 86 kg9,207 seasons | 70% | 78% | 85% |
| +86 kg9,437 seasons | 69% | 77% | 85% |
What your own ratio tells you
A ratio near the median means the two lifts are in balance. Well below it, the snatch usually has the most room to grow; well above it, the clean and jerk does, often the jerk. Enter both lifts in the Sinclair calculator to see where your own ratio sits.
Data: the snatch and clean and jerk from each lifter's best total of a season at national meets in seven countries, 114,066 men's and 100,121 women's lifter-seasons, through 2026.