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Weightlifting Statistics for 2000-2012 Olympics

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Here are some Weightlifting Statistics for 2000-2012 Olympics.

It uses the data from the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics from Wikipedia (male lifters only for now). From this dataset he then took all lifters that managed to total and only deleted a few last ones who were so clearly below everyone else in the rankings that they’d have skewed the results.
The spreadsheet calculates average, minimum and maximum for:

  • Snatch to Clean and Jerk Ratio
  • C&J to bodyweight Ratio
  • Snatch to bodyweight Ratio
In the “Medalists” sheet he narrowed the calculations down to only the top 3 for each weight class.
Download: Spreadsheet on Google Docs
 
Very interesting and mostly accurate results. It's funny how they calculated the 105kg+ based on an average weightlifter's BW of around 160kg. I worked that one out based on the percentage they gave for the C&J statistic being 157% of the lifter's BW. That comes to an average BW of 160kg and a C&J of around 250kg. Still (as has always been), the lighter weights being stronger than their heavier counterpart kg for kg. Looking forward to the day when a super heavyweight will clean and jerk 270kg and snatch 220, hopefully both by the same lifter in the same competition. It will happen, it's only a matter of time and a close competition between competitors to help the release of that much more adrenaline to help get the job done.

Or, perhaps a new science would emerge where we would be able to somehow/somewhat duplicate what primates such as the monkeys enjoy, ..but with a twist. We have more motor neurons to enable us to control our muscle fibres and the way they fire (which tends to restrict us from performing feats of strength). This however enables us to accomplish delicate tasks such as threading of a needle, or (in the case of an accomplished Olympic weightlifter), control the way his neurons are activated by recruiting more muscle fibre at a given time. That's why I've said before on this forum, that Olympic weightlifting is a sport that relates to the training of the nervous system, more so than the muscle system (as is the case in the sport of bodybuilding).
 
spartacus said:
good to see you are back Fadi.

Did you get to see 2014 world champs; 105kg was a great contest.
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Thank you sir. Yes I did watch the WWC, and most definitely you're right about the 105kg class, with ilya ilyin from Kazakhstan moving up from the 94kg class to rock the boat in the heavier weight class, and boy did he rock the boat! That lifter will go down in weightlifting history as one of the legends of the sport, simply amazing!

Unfortunately Behdad Salimi , the super heavyweight from Iran missed his peak and failed to show his true skills in the snatch, (which he owns as a world record at 214kg).

The best ever 105kg+ lifting competition in the history of the sport was seen at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, it's yet to be beaten as far as sheer lifting contest between the lifters witnessed on that day.
 
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