Youngest / Oldest
Who was youngest and oldest in history to reach each total threshold.
How to read this page?
For each threshold we take all starts where the athlete reached a total equal to or greater than the threshold, and look at the extreme age values in that set - not necessarily the first time the threshold was crossed.
Where do the kg thresholds come from? They are not hardcoded - we calculate them automatically from percentiles of each athlete's personal best in the database, separately for W and M. We use the 50/70/85/95/99/99.9 percentiles (e.g. "95% threshold" means a result better than 95% of all athletes of that sex) and round to the nearest 5kg. This way the thresholds always match the real scale of results in database, instead of being arbitrary numbers picked in advance.
Why the 12-75 age range? Official IWF age categories start at around 13 (the youngest Youth category), so 12 is a safe, realistic lower bound for a competitive debut. 75 is a generous upper bound covering the oldest Masters categories that realistically still compete. Results outside this range are excluded.
We only include results from 1973 onwards.