Emily Campbell Explained

Emily Campbell
Nationality:British
Sport:Weightlifting
Birth Date:6 May 1994
Birth Place:Nottingham, England
Height:1.765 m[1]
Weight:112 kg
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Emily Campbell (born 6 May 1994) is a British weightlifter, the most successful British weightlifter of modern times.[2] 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.[3] She graduated from Leeds Beckett University with a Sports Science degree in 2016.[4]

Campbell competed in the women's +90 kg event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the bronze medal.[5] [6] 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.[7]

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]

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.[13] [14]

The British Olympic Association chose Campbell as Team GB's only weightlifter at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the +81 kg category.[15] At the Games she won a bronze medal setting a new combined personal best of 288kg in the process.[16] [17]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Emily Campbell – Weightlifting. teamengland.org. 16 August 2021 . Commonwealth Games England.
  2. Web site: Emily Campbell . Gold Coast 2018 . 11 April 2018 . 12 April 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180412145619/https://results.gc2018.com/en/weightlifting/athlete-profile-n6031578-emily-campbell.htm . dead .
  3. News: Thirkill . Stephen . Bulwell's Emily Campbell wins Olympic silver medal . 2 August 2021 . Hucknall Dispatch . 2 August 2021.
  4. News: Blackall . Molly . Walker . Amy . Tokyo Olympics: How two UK universities produced dozens of Team GB stars – and trained them over FaceTime . 7 August 2021 . inews . 7 August 2021.
  5. Web site: Feagaiga Stowers secures Samoa's second gold medal . Samoa Observer . 11 April 2018.
  6. Web site: Event Schedule - Women's +90kg . Gold Coast 2018 . 11 April 2018 . 2 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230202034650/https://results.gc2018.com/en/weightlifting/event-schedule-women-s--plus-90kg.htm . dead .
  7. Web site: Moore. Joel. 2021-08-01. Family of Bulwell's Olympic weightlifting star are 'so proud'. 2021-08-02. NottinghamshireLive.
  8. News: Tokyo Olympics: Emily Campbell becomes first British female weightlifter to win Olympic medal . BBC Sport . 2 July 2021.
  9. News: Oliver. Brian. 2 August 2021. Unstoppable weightlifter Li wins again as Britain's Campbell ends 37-year medal wait. InsideTheGames.biz. 2 August 2021.
  10. Web site: Women's +87 kg Results. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20210802130705/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/WLF/OG2020-_WLF_C73_WLFWO87KG-------------FNL---------.pdf. 2 August 2021. 2 August 2021. Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
  11. News: Emily Campbell: British weightlifter adds world bronze to Olympic silver and Euro gold . 24 December 2021 . BBC Sport . 17 December 2021.
  12. News: Oliver. Brian. 17 December 2021. Stunning sweep of weightlifting world records for Lasha - and another medal for Britain. InsideTheGames.biz. 18 December 2021.
  13. News: Oliver . Brian . 5 June 2022 . Landmark golds for Britain's Campbell and Norway's Koanda at European Weightlifting Championships . . 5 June 2022.
  14. Web site: 2022 European Weightlifting Championships Results Book . https://web.archive.org/web/20220606070924/https://ewf.sport/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Results_Book_2022_European_ALB.pdf . 6 June 2022 . 6 June 2022 . European Weightlifting Federation.
  15. News: Hinds . Rodney . July 2024 . Emily in Paris: Campbell is GB's sole weightlifter . . 47.
  16. Web site: Campbell wins final GB medal of Paris Olympics. BBC Sport. 11 August 2024.
  17. Web site: Emily Campbell launches cartwheel celebration after bagging Olympic bronze. The Independent. 11 August 2024.

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