Other sportsWeightlifting world record
85 kg clean & jerk, men
Record
214 kg
472 lb
- Holder
- Ro Kwang-ryol
- Date
- Place
- Nagoya, Japan
- Standing since
- 2026
What to remember
At the Asian Games in Nagoya on 28 September 2026, North Korea's Ro Kwang-ryol made 214 kg in the clean and jerk, the world record in the men's 85 kg class.
Ro Kwang-ryol had already made his mark: silver in the 89 kg event at the 2024 World Championships in Manama, Bahrain, and silver at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
The International Weightlifting Federation has revised its weight limits several times, most recently in 2026, after 2025, 2018, 1998 and 1993, and each revision swept away the earlier marks.
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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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