Other sportsWeightlifting world record
70 kg clean & jerk, men
Record
198 kg
437 lb
- Holder
- Ri Won-ju
- Date
- Place
- Nagoya, Japan
- Standing since
- 2026
What to remember
At the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, North Korea's Ri Won-ju made 198 kg in the clean and jerk in the 70 kg class on 26 September 2026.
It was not his first world record. In the 67 kg class he had set a clean and jerk world record of 190 kg at the 2024 IWF World Cup, the same year he won the 67 kg world title at the World Championships in Manama, Bahrain.
The International Weightlifting Federation restructured its weight classes in 1993, 1998, 2018, 2025 and 2026, each overhaul nullifying the earlier records.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of world records in Olympic weightlifting” (revision used 1379474075). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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