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Karlina Tongotea

New Zealand · 84 kg class · 17 meets since 2018

Best lifts

Squat
231.5
Bench
137.5
Deadlift
262.0

One side of a 20 kg bar, every disc drawn and coloured by weight, with the collar outermost. Career bests, which may come from different meets.

Peak

Score
124.16

99.9th percentile of scores that year

Heaviest total
628.5 kg

Independent of the score above, and possibly a different meet.

Career

On the strength landscape

What comparable lifters went on to do

Within 3 years: No comparable group exists. The closest 59 athletes span ages 20-44 and scores 95.9-118.3, which is too wide to call a comparison. Refused for the same reason within 1, 2, 5 and 8 years.

Competing again

  • Within 1 year85%
  • Within 2 years91%
  • Within 3 years93%

The chance of another result, from how lifters in the same situation went on: results so far, time since the last one, age and score. It says nothing about this lifter’s own plans. As of 7 Sept 2026, from a last result on 13 Jun 2026.

Made the same way at the start of 2023 and checked a year later, the forecast ranked who came back well: a returner had the higher chance 85% of the time. Its level was off by 6 points on average — for the least likely tenth it said 5% and 2% came back; for the most likely it said 66% and 77% did.

Attempts

AttemptSquatBenchDeadliftAll lifts
First
88%
15 of 17 · 66%–97%
comparison 95%
100%
17 of 17 · 82%–100%
comparison 95%
100%
17 of 17 · 82%–100%
comparison 96%
96%
49 of 51 · 87%–99%
comparison 96%
Second
88%
15 of 17 · 66%–97%
comparison 90%
94%
16 of 17 · 73%–99%
comparison 87%
94%
16 of 17 · 73%–99%
comparison 90%
92%
47 of 51 · 81%–97%
comparison 89%
Third
53%
9 of 17 · 31%–74%
comparison 71%
76%
13 of 17 · 53%–90%
comparison 63%
71%
12 of 17 · 47%–87%
comparison 60%
67%
34 of 51 · 53%–78%
comparison 65%

Openers, as a share of the heaviest attempt made that day (median over meets):

  • Squat 95% · comparison 93% · 17 meets
  • Bench 94% · comparison 93% · 17 meets
  • Deadlift 94% · comparison 93% · 17 meets

Third attempts, against lifters who took the same jump:

  • Squat9/17
  • Bench13/17
  • Deadlift12/17
  • All lifts34/51

● share made · | expected for the jumps taken · box: the exact range luck alone gives 95% of the time. Violet is above that, red below.

Overall: 34 of 51 made, 29.7 expected. Best estimate once luck is allowed for: about 3.0 more than expected.

−40−200+20+4013103060+third attempts takenmade vs expected (% pts)better than luck explainsworse than luck explains+8 pts · 51 thirds
The ringed dot is this lifter: thirds made above or below expectation, in percentage points per third. Grey bands are where the middle half and middle 80% of all 179,905 lifters sit for that many thirds. Between the coloured lines is what luck alone produces 95% of the time for a typical lifter: wide for a few thirds, narrow for dozens. The dot’s colour uses this lifter’s own thirds, as in the All lifts bar, so right at a line the two can differ.

Expected is each third’s population make rate for that lift, its jump over the second attempt in whole percent, and whether the second was made. The surplus in words is shrunk toward zero by how much lifters really differ, so a few lucky thirds count for little; shrunk this way, a surplus before 2023 carried over to thirds since.

Share of attempts made, with a 95% interval, from 17 meets with recorded attempts. The comparison is every attempt by women whose best score was 110 or more. A high rate can mean careful attempt selection as much as reliability; the rates above do not separate the two, the third-attempt comparison allows for the jump taken.

Lift balance

Squat 65%Bench 55%Deadlift 70%

Squat / bench / deadlift 35 / 23 / 42 at the last full-power meet (13 Jun 2026). Women of this bodyweight and total typically split 38 / 22 / 40.

Closer to typical than 53% of women.

The dot is this lifter; the violet ring is the typical split for their sex, bodyweight and total, which we computed. Each corner is the most that lift’s share reaches in this zoomed triangle.

Every attempt

Squat
Bench
Deadlift

130 of 153 attempts made across 17 meets. White is a good lift, red a miss, outlined an attempt whose outcome was not recorded. Oldest meet on the left.

Meets

DateMeetBodyweightTotalScore
13 Jun 2026World Classic Powerlifting Championships83.5 kg607.5 kg115.02
31 Jan 2026Sheffield Powerlifting Championships75.7 kg628.5 kg124.16
14 Aug 2025World Games75.5 kg620.0 kg122.61
8 Jun 2025World Classic Powerlifting Championships75.6 kg612.5 kg121.07
26 Jan 2025Sheffield Powerlifting Championships75.4 kg616.0 kg121.94
16 Sept 2024National Championships80.5 kg590.5 kg113.49
15 Jun 2024World Classic Powerlifting Championships75.3 kg592.5 kg117.33
10 Feb 2024Sheffield Powerlifting Championships75.6 kg610.5 kg120.66
6 Sept 2023New Zealand Nationals80.6 kg597.0 kg114.65
11 Jun 2023World Classic Powerlifting Championships75.7 kg593.0 kg117.17
25 Mar 2023Sheffield Powerlifting Championships75.5 kg593.5 kg117.38
28 Nov 2022Commonwealth Championships75.3 kg600.0 kg118.85
1 Aug 2022New Zealand Championships75.4 kg590.0 kg116.76
26 Mar 2022Auckland Powerlifting Championships75.3 kg582.0 kg115.25
23 Aug 2018New Zealand Powerlifting Championships68.6 kg448.0 kg93.15
2 Jun 2018North Island Championships69.5 kg420.0 kg86.67
8 Apr 2018Auckland Powerlifting Championships69.0 kg402.5 kg83.39