IWF Approves New Weightlifting Classes Beginning June 2025

The weightclasses have dropped from 10 to eight every for female and male atheltes.

Olympic Weightlifting can have new body weight classes for the first time in seven years. On Dec. 5, 2024, the Worldwide Weightlifting Federation (IWF) authorised the Innovation Fee’s proposal to scale back weight lessons from 10 to eight for each female and male athletes. With that discount comes an adjustment to the weights for every class.

Not one of the male or feminine weight classes stay. They’ve all been eliminated and changed by the brand new classes beneath:

IWF Feminine Weightlifting Classes

  • 48 kilograms
  • 53 kilograms
  • 58 kilograms
  • 63 kilograms
  • 69 kilograms
  • 77 kilograms
  • 86 kilograms
  • +86 kilograms

Earlier body weight classes had been:

  • 45 kilograms
  • 49 kilograms
  • 55 kilograms
  • 59 kilograms
  • 64 kilograms
  • 71 kilograms
  • 76 kilograms
  • 81 kilograms
  • 87 kilograms
  • +87 kilograms

IWF Male Weightlifting Classes

  • 60 kilograms
  • 65 kilograms
  • 71 kilograms
  • 79 kilograms
  • 88 kilograms
  • 98 kilograms
  • 110 kilograms
  • +110 kilograms

Earlier body weight classes had been:

  • 55 kilograms
  • 61 kilograms
  • 67 kilograms
  • 73 kilograms
  • 81 kilograms
  • 89 kilograms
  • 96 kilograms
  • 102 kilograms
  • 109 kilograms
  • +109 kilograms

[Related: The Jump Squat: How, When, and Why Weightlifters Should Include Them In Training]

[Related: Karlos Nasar Smashes 3 Unofficial Records Ahead of 2024 World Weightlifting Championships]

Along with the load class changes, the load lessons for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Video games may even shrink. What these classes can be had not been confirmed on the time of this text’s publication.

This could be considerably of a continuation of the restricted variety of classes from the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games, which featured the next:

Males’s Weightlifting

  • 61 kilograms
  • 73 kilograms
  • 89 kilograms
  • 102 kilograms
  • +102 kilograms

Ladies’s Weightlifting

  • 49 kilograms
  • 59 kilograms
  • 71 kilograms
  • 81 kilograms
  • +81 kilograms

BarBend will replace this text with additional info relating to the up to date weight classes and their implications for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Video games as quickly as they’re accessible.

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