List of World Championships medalists in weightlifting (women)
This is a List of World Championships medalists in women's weightlifting.
Flyweight
[edit]- 44 kg: 1987–1992
- 46 kg: 1993–1997
- 45 kg: 2018–2024
Bantamweight
[edit]- 48 kg: 1987–1992
- 50 kg: 1993–1997
- 48 kg: 1998–2017
- 49 kg: 2018–2024
- 48 kg: 2025–
Featherweight
[edit]- 52 kg: 1987–1992
- 54 kg: 1993–1997
- 53 kg: 1998–2017
- 55 kg: 2018–2024
- 53 kg: 2025–
Lightweight
[edit]- 56 kg: 1987–1992
- 59 kg: 1993–1997
- 58 kg: 1998–2017
- 59 kg: 2018–2024
- 58 kg: 2025–
Middleweight
[edit]- 60 kg: 1987–1992
- 64 kg: 1993–1997
- 63 kg: 1998–2017
- 64 kg: 2018–2024
- 63 kg: 2025–
Light heavyweight
[edit]- 67.5 kg: 1987–1992
- 70 kg: 1993–1997
- 69 kg: 1998–2017
- 71 kg: 2018–2024
- 69 kg: 2025–
Middle heavyweight
[edit]- 75 kg: 1987–1992
- 76 kg: 1993–1997
- 75 kg: 1998–2017
- 76 kg: 2018–2024
- 77 kg: 2025–
First heavyweight
[edit]- 81 kg: 2018–2024
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Ashgabat |  Lydia Valentín (ESP)
|
 Darya Naumava (BLR)
|
 Tamara Salazar (ECU)
|
| 2019 Pattaya |  Leydi Solís (COL)
|
Lydia Valentín (ESP)
|
 Jenny Arthur (USA)
|
| 2021 Tashkent |  Alina Marushchak (UKR)
|
Valeria Rivas (COL)
|
 Kim I-seul (KOR)
|
| 2022 Bogotá |  Liang Xiaomei (CHN)
|
Wang Zhouyu (CHN)
|
Tamara Salazar (ECU)
|
| 2023 Riyadh | Liang Xiaomei (CHN)
|
Wang Zhouyu (CHN)
|
 Eileen Cikamatana (AUS)
|
| 2024 Manama | Liao Guifang (CHN)
|
 Sara Ahmed (EGY)
|
 Kim Kyong-ryong (PRK)
|
Heavyweight
[edit]- 82.5 kg: 1987–1992
- 83 kg: 1993–1997
- 90 kg: 2017
- 87 kg: 2018–2024
- 86 kg: 2025–
Super heavyweight
[edit]- +82.5 kg: 1987–1992
- +83 kg: 1993–1997
- +75 kg: 1998–2015
- +90 kg: 2017
- +87 kg: 2018–2024
- +86 kg: 2025–
Medal table
[edit]| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 149 | 52 | 17 | 218 |
| 2 |  Russia | 18 | 22 | 14 | 54 |
| 3 |  Chinese Taipei | 17 | 21 | 22 | 60 |
| 4 |  Thailand | 8 | 17 | 17 | 42 |
| 5 | North Korea | 8 | 16 | 15 | 39 |
| 6 | South Korea | 7 | 10 | 16 | 33 |
| 7 |  Kazakhstan | 7 | 4 | 3 | 14 |
| 8 |  United States | 6 | 16 | 14 | 36 |
| 9 | Colombia | 6 | 13 | 8 | 27 |
| 10 |  Bulgaria | 5 | 20 | 22 | 47 |
| 11 | Egypt | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 12 |  India | 3 | 9 | 5 | 17 |
| 13 |  Hungary | 2 | 11 | 12 | 25 |
| 14 |  Turkey | 2 | 8 | 8 | 18 |
| 15 |  Greece | 2 | 6 | 6 | 14 |
| 16 |  Indonesia | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 |
| 17 | Spain | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 18 |  Poland | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 19 | Ukraine | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 |
| 20 |  Finland | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 21 |  Romania | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 22 | Belarus | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| 23 |  Turkmenistan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 24 |  Philippines | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 25 |  Armenia | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 26 |  Norway | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 27 |  Azerbaijan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Georgia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Mongolia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Tunisia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 31 |  Japan | 0 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| 32 | Ecuador | 0 | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| 33 |  Nigeria | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 34 |  Great Britain | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 35 | Australia | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 36 |  Vietnam | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 37 |  Uzbekistan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 38 |  Chile | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Cuba | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Madagascar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 New Zealand | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 42 |  Dominican Republic | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 43 |  Canada | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 44 |  Myanmar | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 45 |  France | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
 Latvia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
 Mexico | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
 Russian Weightlifting Federation[a] | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 49 |  Macau | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Venezuela | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (51 entries) | 265 | 265 | 265 | 795 | |
- Names in italic are national entities that no longer exist.
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ At the 2021 World Championships, in accordance with a ban by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), weightifters from Russia were not permitted to use the Russian name, flag, or anthem. They instead participated under the name and the modified flag of the Russian Weightifting Federation (RWF).