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Zoe Smith (born 26 April 1994) is an English weightlifter.In October 2010, she won a bronze medal in the women's 58 kg division at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, her first senior international competition, to become the first English woman to win a Commonwealth Games weightlifting medal.
Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu (born 2 January 1994) is an Indian weightlifter. Born in Kakching Khunou, Kakching district, Manipur, she is a two time Commonwealth Games Champion. Chanu won the gold medals at the 2014 Glasgow and the 2018 Gold Coast events in the women's 48 kg and 53 kg weight category respectively. She holds the Commonwealth Games ...
Mary Anne Theisen-Lappen (born November 3, 1990) is an American weightlifter.. She won the silver medal in the women's +87 kg event at the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, [1] [2] and the gold medal in the women's +81 kg event at the 2023 Pan American Games held in Santiago, Chile.
In July 2016, Johnston started writing a fitness advice column, "Ask a Swole Woman", for the website The Hairpin, at the request of Hairpin editor Silvia Killingsworth, one of many people to whom she had enthusiastically talked about weightlifting. [11] [12] GQ described her tone as "that of an enthusiastic amateur with an eye for bullshit". [11]
Dajomes was the gold medalist in the women's 76 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. [8] She won the gold medal in the women's 81 kg event at the 2022 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Bogotá, Colombia. [9] [10] She also won the gold medals in the Snatch and Clean & Jerk events in this competition. [10]
She won the silver medal in the women's 45 kg event at the 2021 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Guayaquil, Ecuador. [3] She competed in the women's 45 kg event at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. [4] Quintana won two silver medals at the 2022 Bolivarian Games held in Valledupar, Colombia. [1]
Karnam Malleswari (born 1 June 1975) is a retired Indian weightlifter.She is the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Olympics in 2000. In 1994, she received the Arjuna Award and in 1999, she received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honour, and the civilian Padma Shri award.
Rebekah Tiler (born 13 January 1999 [1]) is a former [2] British weightlifter, who (as of April 2018) holds all three British Records in the 69 kg class. [3] [1] She competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow where she finished fourth. [1] She was the UK's only woman weightlifter at the 2016 Olympics.