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At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), Campbell became the first British female weightlifter to win a medal at the Olympics, with a silver in the women's +87 kg event. [8] [9] [10] Later that year, she went on to earn a bronze medal at the World Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. [11] [12]
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.
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]
Agata Ewa Wróbel (born August 28, 1981, in Żywiec) is a Polish weightlifter, and is a world record-breaker in the +75 kg category.. She took up weightlifting after watching the men compete in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and after learning that women's weightlifting would be an event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
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 ...
Li Wenwen (Chinese: 李雯雯; pinyin: Lǐ Wénwén; born 5 March 2000) is a Chinese weightlifter competing in the women's +87 kg division. [5] She is a double Olympic champion, the current world champion, as well as the incumbent Asian champion. In 2021, she set the current world records for both clean & jerk and snatch.
Liao Qiuyun (Chinese: 廖秋云, born 13 July 1995) is a Chinese weightlifter. [1] She is the silver medalist at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo [ 2 ] and World and Asian Champion. [ 3 ] She competes in the women's 55 kg division.
Laurel Hubbard (born 9 February 1978) is a New Zealand weightlifter. [3] Selected to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics, she was the first openly transgender woman to compete in the Olympic Games. [4] [5] Prior to making her Olympic debut, Hubbard achieved a ranking of 7th in the IWF's women's +87 kg division. [6] [5]