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IWF Approves New Weightlifting Categories Starting June 2025

Olympic Weightlifting will have new bodyweight categories for the first time in seven years. On Dec. 5, 2024, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) approved the Innovation Commission’s proposal to reduce weight classes from 10 to eight for both male and female athletes. With that reduction comes an adjustment to the weights for each category.

None of the male or female weight categories remain. They have all been removed and replaced by the new categories below:

IWF Female Weightlifting Categories

Previous bodyweight categories were:

IWF Male Weightlifting Categories

Previous bodyweight categories were:

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In addition to the weight category adjustments, the weight classes for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games will also shrink. What those categories will be had not been confirmed at the time of this article’s publication.

This would be somewhat of a continuation of the limited number of categories from the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, which featured the following:

Men’s Weightlifting

Women’s Weightlifting

BarBend will update this article with further information regarding the updated weight categories and their implications for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games as soon as they are available.

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