This is a list of the women’s senior world records in the sport of weightlifting between the years of 1998 and 2018. All world records from the previous era that spanned from 1993 to 1997 were nullified for the 1998 restructuring of the weight classes.
Linked to each world record is a video of the lift as well as the athlete’s Instagram page or Wikipedia page.null
Women’s 48 kg
| Snatch | 98 kg | Yang Lian | CHN | 01.10.2006, Santo Domingo | (watch) |
| Clean & Jerk | 121 kg | Nurcan Taylan | TUR | 17.09.2010, Antalya | (watch) |
| Total | 217 kg | Yang Lian | CHN | 01.10.2006, Santo Domingo | (watch) |
Women’s 53 kg
| Snatch | 103 kg | Li Ping | CHN | 14.11.2010, Guangzhou | (watch) |
| Clean & Jerk | 134 kg | Zulfiya Chinshanlo | KAZ | 10.11.2014, Almaty | (watch) |
| Total | 233 kg | Hsu Shu-ching | TPE | 21.09.2014, Incheon | (watch) |
Women’s 58 kg
| Snatch | 112 kg | Boyanka Kostova | AZE | 23.11.2015, Houston | (watch) |
| Clean & Jerk | 142 kg | Kuo Hsing-chun | TPE | 21.08.2017, Taipei | (watch) |
| Total | 252 kg | Boyanka Kostova | AZE | 23.11.2015, Houston | (watch) |
Women’s 63 kg
| Snatch | 117 kg | Svetlana Tsarukayeva | RUS | 08.11.2011, Paris | (watch) |
| Clean & Jerk | 147 kg | Deng Wei | CHN | 09.08.2016, Rio | (watch) |
| Total | 262 kg | Deng Wei | CHN | 09.08.2016, Rio | (watch) |
Women’s 69 kg
| Snatch | 123 kg | Oksana Slivenko | RUS | 04.10.2006, Santo Domingo | (watch) |
| Clean & Jerk | 157 kg | Zarema Kasayeva | RUS | 13.11.2005, Doha | (watch) |
| Total | 276 kg | Oksana Slivenko | RUS | 24.09.2007, Chiang Mai | (watch) |
Women’s 75 kg
| Snatch | 135 kg | Natalia Zabolotnaya | RUS | 17.12.2011, Belgorod | (watch) |
| Clean & Jerk | 164 kg | Kim Un-ju | DPRK | 25.09.2014, Incheon | (watch) |
| Total | 296 kg | Natalia Zabolotnaya | RUS | 17.12.2011, Belgorod | (watch) |
Women’s 90 kg
| Snatch | 130 kg | Viktoriya Shaymardanova | UKR | 21.08.2004, Athens | (watch) |
| Clean & Jerk | 160 kg | Hripsime Khurshudyan | ARM | 25.09.2010, Antalya | (watch) |
| Total | 283 kg | Hripsime Khurshudyan | ARM | 25.09.2010, Antalya | (watch) |
Women’s +90 kg
| Snatch | 155 kg | Tatiana Kashirina | RUS | 16.11.2014, Almaty | (watch) |
| Clean & Jerk | 193 kg | Tatiana Kashirina | RUS | 16.11.2014, Almaty | (watch) |
| Total | 348 kg | Tatiana Kashirina | RUS | 16.11.2014, Almaty | (watch) |