Eleiko IWF Weightlifting Competition Bar, 20kg (Men)
The bar used at IWF world championships and the Olympics. 28mm Swedish steel at 236,000 PSI, needle bearings in a redesigned dust-proofed sleeve, 1.2 Competition knurling and a tolerance of plus twenty grams to minus ten. Sensor-ready, limited lifetime warranty.
That is not a photograph of this bar. Product photography on this page is illustrative. We are licensing real images of each bar and will swap them in per product as they arrive — until then the pictures show a generic unbranded bar of that type, not the product named beside them.
Published specification
Every figure below is Eleiko’s own published specification for this bar, quoted rather than measured. Where a figure is not published it is not listed — there are no estimates in this table.
Who this bar is for
The reference point for every other weightlifting bar here, and priced accordingly. For a competing lifter or a club that runs sanctioned competition.
What this page is not
It is not a review. Nobody at OlympicBars.co.uk has trained on this bar, so there is no score, no star rating and no verdict here, and there never will be unless that changes and we say so plainly. What this page gives you is Eleiko’s own numbers, laid out the same way as every other bar on the site so you can compare them, and a link to the shop so you can check the current price yourself.
Other olympic weightlifting bars
A 28mm shaft on needle bearings, so the sleeves spin fast enough to let the bar turn in your hands through a snatch or a clean. Marked to IWF grip spacing.
Every figure is the manufacturer’s or retailer’s own published specification. An em dash (—) means they do not publish that figure — it is never a number we have guessed. “Tensile” is tensile strength in thousands of PSI. “Rotation” is bushings, needle bearings, or both in the same sleeve. No prices are listed here, deliberately: check the current price with the shop.
All olympic weightlifting bars →Compare it against everything else
All 52 bars on one page, grouped by type, on the same set of published figures.
The full tableNot sure what the numbers mean?
Tensile strength, whip, knurl depth, bushings against bearings — what each one changes when you are actually under the bar.
Specs explained