61 kg total, women

What to remember

For China, Yang Liuyue set a weightlifting world record: a 251 kg total in the 61 kg class on September 25, 2026, at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan.

The total is the sum of the best snatch and the best clean and jerk. Each weight class therefore keeps three separate records, one for each lift plus the total.

These records are young ones. Earlier records vanished each time the International Weightlifting Federation reshuffled its weight classes, which it did in 2026 and 2025 as well as in 2018, 1998 and 1993.