77 kg snatch, women

What to remember

Norway hosted the 2025 Weightlifting World Championships in Førde. On 8 October, American Olivia Reeves lifted 123 kg in the snatch there in the women's 77 kg class, the world record for the category.

Reeves came with a strong résumé: Olympic gold in the 71 kg event in Paris in 2024, the same year as a world title won with a 267 kg total. That made her the first U.S. lifter in 66 years to hold both the world title and Olympic gold in the same year. She had also won the 81 kg event at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago.

Each time the international federation redrew its weight classes, the old records were wiped out: that happened in 1993 and in 1998, then in 2018, in 2025 and in 2026.