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Emily Campbell (born 6 May 1994) is a British weightlifter, the most successful British weightlifter of modern times. She is a Commonwealth and four-time European champion, and a double World and Olympic medalist.
In 2021, competing in the +87 kg category, Campbell became both European champion, and the first British woman to win an Olympic medal in the sport, with silver at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In 2022 she retained her European title, won the Gold medal at her home Commonwealth Games in a new Commonwealth Games record, and upgraded her 2021 World Championships bronze medal to a silver in Bogota.
In 2023, Campbell confirmed a hat-trick of three successive European titles, before in 2024 recreating her 2021 success, winning her fourth consecutive European title and her second Olympic medal, a bronze in the +81 kg category at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.




Biography


Campbell is from the Snape Wood estate in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire. She graduated from Leeds Beckett University with a Sports Science degree in 2016.
Campbell competed in the women's +90 kg event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the bronze medal. In the following year she came third in the 2019 European Championships gaining another bronze medal. In early 2021 she became the European champion after winning in Moscow in the +87 kg category.
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. Later that year, she went on to earn a bronze medal at the World Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
She won the gold medal in her event at the 2022 European Weightlifting Championships held in Tirana, Albania and retained her title, with a somewhat reduced lift, in 2023 in Yerevan, Armenia.
The British Olympic Association chose Campbell as Team GB's only weightlifter at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the +81 kg category. At the Games she won a bronze medal setting a new combined personal best of 288 kg in the process.




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External links


Emily Campbell at the International Weightlifting Federation
Emily Campbell at the International Weightlifting Federation
Emily Campbell at IAT Database Weightlifting (in German)
Emily Campbell at Olympics.com
Emily Campbell at Olympedia
Emily Campbell at Team GB
Emily Campbell at Team England
Emily Campbell at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
Emily Campbell at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

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