What percent of women can deadlift 225 lb?
Among 53,248 raw female OpenPowerlifting meet-result entries, roughly 83% record 225 lb or more after each bodyweight class is weighted by its entry count. Treat it as a competition-entry estimate — the denominator is recorded meet entries, never all women and never a unique-person count.
The meet-result answer
OpenPowerlifting — weighted meet-result share. Across n=53,248 raw female meet-result entries, roughly 83% record 225 lb or more after each bodyweight-class share is weighted by that class's entry count. Since n counts entries — not unique people — repeat competitors appear more than once, and the percentage describes the recorded field only, not all women.
225 lb deadlift by female bodyweight
Per-class OpenPowerlifting percentiles for the same raw entries — these are the rows whose n feeds the weighted percentage above.
| Bodyweight | Percentile | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 43 kg 95 lb | 82nd | top 18% of raw meet results |
| 47 kg 104 lb | 47th | stronger than 47% of raw meet results |
| 52 kg 115 lb | 35th | stronger than 35% of raw meet results |
| 57 kg 126 lb | 23rd | stronger than 23% of raw meet results |
| 63 kg 139 lb | 18th | stronger than 18% of raw meet results |
| 69 kg 152 lb | 12th | stronger than 12% of raw meet results |
| 76 kg 168 lb | 12th | stronger than 12% of raw meet results |
| 84 kg 185 lb | 10th | stronger than 10% of raw meet results |
| 84 kg+ 185 lb+ | 10th | stronger than 10% of raw meet results |
Reference-class read
Anchored at 63 kg bodyweight: 225 lb sits 29.4 kg (65 lb) below that class's 131.5 kg (290 lb) median, around the 18th percentile of its 8,391 meet results. Move a class up or down and the same bar reads differently.
The bar moves the answer more than anything else. On the same weighted female denominator, fewer than 43% record 315 lb or more.
Where 225 lb stands in the field
For women, a 225 lb deadlift is top-quartile through 43 kg, at or below the field median from 47 kg up.
Weighted across 53,248 raw female meet results, roughly 83% record 225 lb or more.
These are dead-stop pulls; raw competition allows both conventional and sumo stance on the same scoreboard, so the standard pools them. Dead-stop is the meet standard — touch-and-go reps use the stretch reflex off the floor and read higher than a competition pull. Vanderburgh & Batterham 1999 is why the deadlift standard climbs with bodyweight while strength-per-kilo falls (PMID 10613442).
FAQ
- What percent of women can deadlift 225 lb?
- Among 53,248 raw female OpenPowerlifting meet-result entries, roughly 83% record 225 lb or more after bodyweight-class weighting. Recorded meet-result entries are the denominator, so the figure covers the competitive field rather than all women or unique people.
- Is this the share of all women who deadlift 225 lb?
- No — it covers 53,248 raw female OpenPowerlifting meet-result entries across qualifying bodyweight classes, which is a self-selected competitive field, not all women, gym members, or unique people.
- Does bodyweight change the answer for 225 lb?
- Sharply. The same 225 lb deadlift that dominates a light class can sit near the middle of a heavy one — read your own class in the table above, then let the percentile calculator match sex, age, bodyweight, and equipment exactly.
- How is this percentage calculated?
- From 53,248 raw female OpenPowerlifting meet-result entries: every bodyweight class contributes its share at or above the load, weighted by how many entries that class recorded. n is not a unique-person count.
Figures: OpenPowerlifting (public competition meet data (CC0), dataset date 2026-05-10). Cell n is a meet-result count, not a unique-person count. Full method at /method. Check your own lift on the percentile calculator.