In the short span of only 6 years Mattie Rogers went from her weightlifting debut to now being the most popular and well known weightlifter on Earth.
In 2016 she narrowly missed out on qualifying for the summer Olympics, but was however awarded that year’s best overall lifter.
So how did Rogers go from unknown to the face of weightlifting so quickly? It was a mix of talent and a marketable personality.
Below we will look at the social stats and global interest of Mattie Rogers compared to other well known weightlifters, in order to prove her rank as most popular.
Global Interest and Social Reach
The 5 athletes we will be comparing are Mattie Rogers, Dmitry Klokov, Lasha Talakhadze, Katherine Nye, and Sonny Webster.
Global Interest
In order to judge global interest we plugged each athlete into Google Trends and compared their interest over time for the past 12 months.
Interest Over Time: Numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time. A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term. A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular. A score of 0 means there was not enough data for this term.
Google Trends
Since this chart is hard to see, this is what it is showing:
- Mattie Rogers (BLUE): Average of 33
- Dmitry Klokov (RED): Average of 32
- Lasha Talakhadze (YELLOW): Average of 27
- Katherine Nye (GREEN): Average of 10
- Sonny Webster (PURPLE): Average of 8
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Social Reach
Although that chart may have been close, the stats on social media reach show a complete different story. For many Instagram and Facebook have become a second search engine and that is where they follow their top interests, so we deemed it necessary to include the two.
Instagram Followers
- Mattie Rogers: 644,000
- Dmitry Klokov: 408,000 (-236k)
- Sonny Webster: 294,000 (-350k)
- Katherine Nye: 107,000 (-537k)
- Lasha Talakhadze: 23,800 (-620k)
Facebook Followers
- Dmitry Klokov: 217,000
- Mattie Rogers: 133,000 (-84k)
- Sonny Webster: 18,000
- Lasha Talakhadze: 6,100
- Katherine Nye: No Page
Although they have Twitter, the numbers did not seem relevant to include.
Total Social Reach between Instagram and Facebook
- Mattie Rogers: 777,000
- Dmitry Klokov: 625,000 (-152k)
- Sonny Webster: 312,000 (-465k)
- Katherine Nye: 107,000 (-537k)
- Lasha Talakhadze: 29,900 (-747k)
Performance
Not to be mistaken as an influencer Mattie also has consistently performed on the big stage.
After her senior debut in 2015 where she finished 15th she went on to win 5 straight competitions, including 3 championships.
- 2016 National Championships – Olympic trials
- 2016 National University Championships
- 2016 World University Championships
- 2016 American Open
- 2017 National Championships
Since then she has always finished in the top 3 up until the 2018 World Weightlifting Championship where she finished 5th. That was however her first time competing in her new 71kg weight class.
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At only 25 years old once Mattie Rogers competes at the Olympics she is likely to dwarf her current popularity numbers and become even more of a name in the world of strength sports.
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