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2023 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships Full Results

Here are all the winners from this year’s Junior Worlds.

Written by Jake Dickson, NASM-CPT, USAW-L2
Last updated on April 29th, 2025

Fans of weightlifting have been spoiled rotten in 2023. The International Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) event calendar has featured prominent competitions on a near-monthly basis from January to November.

The IWF’s Junior World Weightlifting Championships (JWWC), which ran in Guadalajara, Mexico from Nov. 15 to 23, was a sneak peek at some of the brightest young stars in the sport. 

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229 athletes from 44 countries stepped up to the platform to set new records (both personal and official) and hopefully bring home some hardware. Here are the full results from the 2023 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships. 

2023 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships 

2023 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships | Men’s Results 

Below are the full results from every Men’s division at the 2023 JWWC. Note that the notation below reads as “Athlete (Country) — [Total] (Snatch/Clean & Jerk)”.

For full session results with all participants, refer to the IWF’s official results page. 

55 Kilograms

  1. José Poox (MEX) — 234 (103/131)
  2. Kento Kousaka (JPN) — 227 (97/130)
  3. Wilfredo Alemán (MEX) — 215 (94/121)

61 Kilograms

  1. Gabriel Chhum (USA) — 262 (117/145)
  2. Ali Elsayed (EGY) — 254 (111/143)
  3. Abraham Rivera (VEN) — 248 (113/135)

67 Kilograms

  1. Gor Sakhayan (ARM) — 305 (140/165)
  2. Hampton Morris (USA) — 303 (125/178)
  3. Yahor Papou (AIN) — 294 (136/158)

73 Kilograms

  1. Reinner Josue Arango Mendez (VEN) — 317 (141/176)
  2. Rakuei Azuma (JPN) — 316 (140/176)
  3. Ismail Jamali Boulaayoun (ESP) — 315 (145/170)

81 Kilograms

  1. Yedige Yemberdi (KAZ) — 336 (145/191)
  2. Gaygysyz Torayev (TKM) — 335 (151/184)
  3. Saba Asanidze (GEO) — 333 (149/184)

89 Kilograms

  1. Elijah Hein (USA) — 351 (158/193)
  2. Inhatsi Pauliukavets (AIN) — 348 (156/192)
  3. Zurab Mskhaladze (GEO) — 346 (155/191)

96 Kilograms

  1. Alireza Nasiri (IRI) — 371 (166/205)
  2. Shahzadbek Matyakubov (TKM) — 367 (167/200)
  3. Masashi Nishikawa (JPN) — 362 (167/195)

102 Kilograms

  1. Garik Karapetyan (ARM) — 378 (175/203)
  2. Abolfazl Zare (IRI) — 365 (166/199)
  3. Gurami Vekua (GEO) — 358 (160/198)

109 Kilograms

  1. Mykyta Rubanovskyi (UKR) — 374 (167/207)
  2. Ariya Paydar (IRI) — 373 (168/205)
  3. Giorgi Kirvalidze (GEO) — 364 (169/195)

+109 Kilograms

  1.  Alireza Yousefi (IRI) — 420 (180/240)
  2. Taha Nemati Moghaddam (IRI) — 381 (176/205)
  3. Vladimir Macura (SVK) — 359 (168/191)

2023 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships | Women’s Results

Below are the full results from every Women’s division at the 2023 JWWC. Note that the notation below reads as “Athlete (Country) — [Total] (Snatch/Clean & Jerk)”.

To see full results for each individual session, refer to the IWF’s official results page. 

45 Kilograms

  1. Cansu Bektas (TUR) — 163 (73/90)
  2. Marta Garcia Rincon (ESP) — 157 (71/86)
  3. Gamze Altun (TUR) — 154 (63/91)

49 Kilograms

  1. Yi-Chen Huang (TPE) — 172 (76/96)
  2. Isabella Mia Rodriguez (USA) — 171 (72/99)
  3. Nozomi Abe (JPN) — 170 (79/91)

55 Kilograms

  1. Aleksandra Grigoryan (ARM) — 188 (81/107)
  2. Nanasa Kawasaki (JPN) — 187 (84/103)
  3. Mao Tsutsumi (JPN) — 186 (83/103)

59 Kilograms

  1. Svitlana Samuliak (UKR) — 214 (98/116)
  2. Jessica Isabel Palacios Dajomes (ECU) — 207 (92/115)
  3. Sei Higa (JPN) — 196 (90/106)

64 Kilograms

  1. Katharine Emily Estep (USA) — 214 (94/120)
  2. Charlotte Simoneau (CAN) — 213 (95/118)
  3. Olha Ivzhenko (UKR) — 208 (93/115)

71 Kilograms

  1. Mariana Garcia Gomez (MEX) — 216 (93/123)
  2. Phattharathida Wongsing (THA) — 208 (92/116)
  3. Martyna Dolega (POL) — 204 (93/111)

76 Kilograms

  1. Kelin Juliana Jimenez Quinonez (ECU) — 234 (104/130)
  2. Ella Nicholson (USA) — 227 (105/122)
  3. Angeles Cruz Hernandez (MEX) — 223 (100/123)

81 Kilograms

  1. Mairyn Vanessa Hernandez Lizarraga (MEX) — 228 (102/126)
  2. Anamjan Rustamova (TKM) — 227 (104/123)
  3. Rahma Ahmed Abdelrazek Hassan Elsayed (EGY) — 223 (101/122)

87 Kilograms

  1. Mariam Murgvliani (GEO) — 225 (102/123)
  2. Fatma Mohamed Sadek Ahmed (EGY) — 219 (97/122)
  3. Amanda Denise Robles (USA) — 215 (101/114)

+87 Kilograms

  1. Ling Chen Wang (TPE) — 252 (111/141)
  2. Aisamal Sansyzbayeva (KAZ) — 250 (107/143)
  3. Taiane Justino De Lima (BRA) — 245 (105/140)

What’s Next for Weightlifting?

There’s still more top-notch Olympic lifting on the docket for 2023. Beginning on Dec. 4, 2023 in Doha, Qatar, will be the IWF Grand Prix II. The 2nd Prix event of the year is a Paris 2024 qualification event. Expect to see the best in the world turn up to perform with less than a year to go until the next Olympics. 

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About Jake Dickson, NASM-CPT, USAW-L2

Jake is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a B.S. in Exercise Science. He began his career as a weightlifting coach before transitioning into sports media to pursue his interest in journalism.

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