Strength Standards Chart by Weight Class

Almost every strength standards chart online labels bands beginner through elite without saying where the numbers came from. This one starts from something published: the IPF’s own scoring formula, in which the average elite athlete at any bodyweight scores exactly 100 GL points. Invert that and you get a total per weight class that has an owner.

Men, classic (raw), three-lift total

Weight class	25 points	50 points	75 points	100 points (elite standard)
59 kg (130 lb)	151 kg / 333 lb	302 kg / 666 lb	453 kg / 999 lb	604 kg / 1,332 lb
66 kg (146 lb)	160 kg / 354 lb	321 kg / 707 lb	481 kg / 1,061 lb	642 kg / 1,414 lb
74 kg (163 lb)	170 kg / 375 lb	341 kg / 751 lb	511 kg / 1,126 lb	681 kg / 1,502 lb
83 kg (183 lb)	181 kg / 398 lb	361 kg / 796 lb	542 kg / 1,194 lb	722 kg / 1,593 lb
93 kg (205 lb)	191 kg / 421 lb	382 kg / 843 lb	573 kg / 1,264 lb	764 kg / 1,685 lb
105 kg (231 lb)	202 kg / 446 lb	405 kg / 893 lb	607 kg / 1,339 lb	810 kg / 1,786 lb
120 kg (265 lb)	215 kg / 474 lb	430 kg / 948 lb	645 kg / 1,422 lb	860 kg / 1,897 lb

Women, classic (raw), three-lift total

Weight class	25 points	50 points	75 points	100 points (elite standard)
47 kg (104 lb)	90 kg / 199 lb	180 kg / 398 lb	271 kg / 596 lb	361 kg / 795 lb
52 kg (115 lb)	99 kg / 218 lb	198 kg / 437 lb	297 kg / 655 lb	396 kg / 873 lb
57 kg (126 lb)	107 kg / 235 lb	213 kg / 470 lb	320 kg / 705 lb	426 kg / 940 lb
63 kg (139 lb)	114 kg / 252 lb	229 kg / 504 lb	343 kg / 756 lb	457 kg / 1,008 lb
69 kg (152 lb)	121 kg / 266 lb	241 kg / 532 lb	362 kg / 798 lb	483 kg / 1,064 lb
76 kg (168 lb)	127 kg / 280 lb	254 kg / 559 lb	380 kg / 839 lb	507 kg / 1,118 lb
84 kg (185 lb)	132 kg / 292 lb	265 kg / 584 lb	397 kg / 876 lb	530 kg / 1,167 lb

Calculate where your own total lands. The highlighted number is your IPF GL score, so it reads directly against the last column above — 50 points is the 50-points column, 100 is the elite standard. Wilks, DOTS and relative strength are one click away under “See all scores”.

How to read the columns

Only the last one is a published standard. The IPF fitted its coefficients to elite results from official international competition since 2011 and then set the normalization factor so that the average elite performance at each bodyweight equals 100 points — the formula, in the federation’s words, answers “what is the level of strength performance of an athlete in relation to the level of performance of an elite athlete of the same body weight”.

The 25, 50 and 75 columns are that same scale divided down. They are honest arithmetic and they are not federation classifications. A 83 kg man totaling 361 kg (796 lb) is at half the output of an average IPF elite lifter his size, which is a meaningful sentence; calling him “intermediate” is a label somebody on the internet invented.

Two structural facts fall out of the table. First, the standards rise far more slowly than bodyweight: more than doubling from 59 to 120 kg lifts the elite total by only 42%, which is the same fact the relative strength calculator shows from the other direction. Second, world-class lifters score above 100, because 100 is an average of the elite group rather than its ceiling.

A note on weight classes

The classes above are the IPF’s, which in the United States apply through Powerlifting America, the IPF’s member federation. USA Powerlifting uses different ones. Its 2026 rulebook lists twelve male classes running 52, 56, 60, 67.5, 75, 82.5, 90, 100, 110, 125, 140 and 140+ kg, and twelve female classes from 44 to 100+ kg. If you compete USAPL, your class boundary will not be on this chart even though the physiology is identical.

For the scoring scales themselves, see the Wilks calculator, Wilks versus DOTS and the IPF GL Points calculator. To assemble the total these standards are measured against, start at the powerlifting total calculator.

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