Other sportsWeightlifting world record
Snatch, men
Record
219 kg
483 lb
- Holder
- Ali Ammar
- Date
- Place
- Nagoya, Japan
- Standing since
- 2026
What to remember
Ali Ammar snatched 219 kg at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, on 29 September 2026.
Full name Ali Ammar Yusur Rubaiawi, the Iraqi weightlifter had competed in the men's +102 kg event at the 2024 Olympics.
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) restructured its weight classes in 2025 and 2026, as it did in 1993, 1998 and 2018, and each reform wiped out the earlier records. Every class has a snatch record, a clean and jerk record and a total record.
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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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