About BARPATH

Our Goal

The goal of BARPATH is to provide the most meaningful set of metrics, tools, analytics, insights and services for lifters, coaches, and organizations to use to succeed in the sport of powerlifting.

Our mission

Powerlifting produces more data per competition than almost any other strength sport — every attempt, every kilogram, every placement is recorded. Historically, most of that data would sit in spreadsheets and meet archives, inaccessible to the lifters who created it.

BARPATH exists to change that. We take the world's most comprehensive powerlifting dataset and turn it into something actionable — rankings you can understand at a glance, benchmarks that put your numbers in context, and a living picture of where the sport stands today. We give you a space where you can see your progress, track your growth, and compare your performance to others. We strive to make interpretations of the data so that you see your journey in a meaningful way.

• Define a personal space and journey while documenting your achievements along the way
• Provide tools, metrics, and identifiers to help you along your path where ever it may take you
• Know exactly where you rank among lifters at your weight, in your equipment category, in the federations you compete in
• Understand the gap between where you are and where the best lifters in the world are
• Track your attempt success rates and competition history in one place
• Explore the sport — records, growth trends, and the numbers that define powerlifting

Data source

All competition data comes from OpenPowerlifting, a volunteer-run project that has been collecting and standardising powerlifting results since 2012. Their dataset covers millions of competition entries across hundreds of federations worldwide — it is the most complete public record of competitive powerlifting that exists.

We import the OpenPowerlifting CSV export, run it through a data pipeline that computes per-lifter personal metrics and statistics, we store these result in a queryable database. The data is refreshed with each new OPL release.

OpenPowerlifting data is published under the Open Database License (ODbL). We are grateful to every volunteer who makes that project possible.

Built by

BARPATH is an independent project built by a powerlifter, for powerlifters. It is not affiliated with OpenPowerlifting, any federation, or any commercial entity. The basic platform is free to use. However, we offer a premium tier with additional features and support. The premium tier will provide more perssonalized data and insights.

If you spot missing data, incorrect rankings, or have a feature idea, the best place to start is the OpenPowerlifting project itself — most data issues originate there and fixes flow downstream automatically on the next import.