Where your total
actually ranks

The data is OpenWeightlifting's, and it is public domain. They contribute their results to the public domain, waived to the extent possible under law, and publish from the United Kingdom. Their code is BSD-3-Clause and none of it is used here. Attribution is requested rather than required, and it is given gladly: openweightlifting.org is the reason a lifter can answer this question at all.

428,770 results out of 582,701 read. Only lifters who posted a total. A day where nothing was made is not a total and does not belong in a distribution of them.

The four fields are four different populations, and the choice matters more here than it usually does. International championships is European Championship, World Championship and Pan-American results and nothing else, so it is the strongest field in the sport: the median 85kg senior man there totals 317kg, against 207kg in Britain. Neither number is wrong. They are answers to different questions, and comparing yourself to the first one when you compete domestically is not modesty, it is the wrong denominator.

"All national competition" is mostly American and French, because those are the two largest federations in the source. It excludes the international championships deliberately. Pooling those in made the mixture differ from class to class, and the pooled median then fell from the 49kg women to the 53s to the 57s while every single federation inside it rose. That is a claim about lifters produced entirely by which federations happened to fill which bucket, and it is exactly the kind of number this site will not print.

Weight classes are worked out from your bodyweight, not read off the result. The recorded category is whatever the lifter competed in, and those have changed four times, most recently on 1 August 2026. Everyone here is placed in the classes in force now: 60, 65, 70, 75, 85, 95, 110 and +110 for men, and 49, 53, 57, 61, 69, 77, 86 and +86 for women. That list is read straight out of the change notice on the qualifying total page when this table is built, so the two cannot drift apart. British Weight Lifting are reassigning historic results to the new categories themselves, so this is the governing body's own treatment and not an invention of ours.

Which is why this page and the qualifying total page show different class lists, on purpose. That page's standards are still printed against the OLD categories, because they are BWL's published figures and BWL has not reissued them. Moving somebody else's standards onto categories they were not set for is how a calculator starts inventing, so they are left exactly as published. This page is not reproducing anybody's standards, only sorting real bodyweights into the classes those lifters would be entered in today, so it uses the current ones. If the two lists ever look like a contradiction, that is the reason.

Under-17 results are excluded entirely, and anything whose age group could not be read is dropped rather than guessed. A youth pooled in with the adults flatters every adult on the page and does it silently. About 3% of the source could not be placed and was thrown away instead.

Thin cells are omitted rather than shown. A percentile off forty results is noise wearing a number, so any pool with under fifty results says so instead of answering.

Two things this cannot tell you. It is a distribution of people who entered a competition, so the median is a competitor's median and not a gym's. And the source is a community project that pulls from national governing body result pages, so coverage is uneven between countries: a federation being small here means its results were harder to collect, not that its lifters are rare.