Amit's data tools
WHITELIGHTS

Real judged lifts. Zero self-reported numbers. This is what strong actually is.

Women · 72.5–77.5 kg

Powerlifting total standards — women, 72.5–77.5 kg

Median 320 kg. Top fifth starts at 380 kg. The top 5% total 448 kg or more. From 13,298 judged lifts.

Intermediate Advanced Elite World-class 0255075100 160220280340400460 kg lifted →
kg

Percentile

13,298 judged totals, women, 72.5–77.5 kg

No lift entered. The curve is every judged totals in this class — add yours to it.

Not your class?

The full table

PercentileLift (kg)Lift (lb)Band
10th235.0518Novice
20th262.5579Intermediate
25th275.0606Intermediate
30th285.0628Intermediate
40th302.5667Intermediate
50th320.0705Advanced
60th337.5744Advanced
70th357.5788Advanced
75th367.5810Advanced
80th380.0838Elite
90th415.0915Elite
95th447.5987World-class
99th507.51,119World-class

Novice

0–20

Bottom fifth of the platform

Intermediate

20–50

Below the median competitor

Advanced

50–80

Above the median competitor

Elite

80–95

Top fifth of the platform

World-class

95–100

Top 5% of everyone who has competed

By age

Masters lifters compete in their own divisions, and the data shows why. Age here is age at the meet.

AgeMedian80th95thLifters
14-17245.0300.0358.97,963
18-19282.5342.5402.55,377
20-23308.0367.5432.517,693
24-34317.5380.0450.040,482
35-39312.5375.0450.08,539
40-44305.0365.0435.06,085
45-49290.0350.0418.43,746
50-54274.4333.3400.02,558
55-59262.5317.5375.41,363
60-69233.5285.0337.51,451

Age bands pool every bodyweight, so they answer "how does age move the number", not "what should a 45-year-old at this exact weight lift".

As a multiple of bodyweight

Percentile× bodyweight
25th3.70×
50th4.30×
75th4.90×
90th5.60×
95th6.00×
99th6.80×

The "2× bodyweight bench" style of goal, measured against people who actually did it in competition.

Who these numbers describe. Everyone in this dataset entered a powerlifting competition. They are stronger than the general gym population, so a 50th percentile here is well above an average gym-goer — we would rather tell you that than quietly flatter you. Nobody has ever published a trustworthy random sample of what people lift in commercial gyms; what exists instead is app data that people type in themselves.

One family of free data tools

See all 9 sites in this family, with what each one answers

Published by

Amit Sharma

Auckland real-estate agent and marketer. Builds free, sourced data tools.