Topic: Modern Weightlifting Classification Chart?

[Andy Dick]

Weak! I'm still in Class IV

[Matt Erdman]

If you are interested, BC Weightlifting has posted the standards for the Canadian Weightlifting Federation Haltérophilie Canadienne

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http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArI7olRwSGKXdDQya2s5NFItcFpUeVYwbUpVUVFzX1E&hl=en

Looks like their "world class" corresponds well to my "elite". They have a whole lot of classifications though. Do you know where their "marker" number came from?

[Matt Erdman]

Weak! I'm still in Class IV

Time to get squatting!

[Shaun Le Conte]

Looks like their "world class" corresponds well to my "elite". They have a whole lot of classifications though. Do you know where their "marker" number came from?

This marker number is calculated each year based on a mix of world championships results and IWF world rankings from the previous three years. It's published in the memos of the CWFHC

For 2010, the senior markers are based on the 2007 World Championships results, and world rankings for 2007, 2008 and 2009. It's the same system each year, it just shifts to the right generally. The top 16 results from each weight class in the most recent worlds and three most recent world rankings are crunched together and an average is found for each weight class. This is used as the marker. Then, lifters are ranked according to their percentage of the marker.