Other sportsWeightlifting world record
70 kg total, men
Record
349 kg
769 lb
- Holder
- Ri Won-ju
- Date
- Place
- Nagoya, Japan
- Standing since
- 2026
What to remember
North Korea's Ri Won-ju first made his name at 67 kg. He won gold in that class at the 2024 World Championships in Manama, Bahrain, and set a clean and jerk world record of 190 kg at the 2024 IWF World Cup.
At the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, on 26 September 2026, he made a total of 349 kg in the 70 kg class. The total adds the snatch to the clean and jerk.
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) redrew its weight classes in 2025 and again in 2026, after doing so in 1993, 1998 and 2018, and each reform erased the records of the old classes.
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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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