Sarah Davies (born 19 August 1992) is a British

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

, competing in the 64 kg and 69 kg categories internationally and representing England and Great Britain at international competitions. She won the silver medal in the women's 71kg event at the 2021 World Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Beauty pageantry

Before her weightlifting career, Davies was active in beauty pageantry, winning the Miss Leeds title.

Weightlifting career

She has competed at five world championships and five European Senior Championships. She was the first British person to win the European u23 Championships in 2015. She competed in the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games representing England and won the silver medal at the 2018 Games. Davies started weightlifting in September 2011 and made her international debut after just two and a half years of training in the sport. Davies won silver medals representing England at the

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(-69 kg)and Great Britain at the

2019 European Weightlifting Championships The 2019 European Weightlifting Championships was held in Batumi, Georgia from 6 to 13 April 2019. Medal overview Men Women Medal table Ranking by Big (Total result) medals Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Cl ...

(-64 kg). Davies won a silver medal at the 2021 European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow, again representing Great Britain. In November 2021, Davies became the first British person to win a World silver medal by taking silver in the clean and jerk as well as the total. On 12 April 2022, Davies was sanctioned by British Weight Lifting after she admitted she had made comments of a racial discriminatory nature against a fellow athlete. As part of the sanction, Davies was deselected from representing Great Britain & England for a period of three months, which included the

2022 European Weightlifting Championships The 2022 European Weightlifting Championships are scheduled to be held in Tirana, Albania, from 28 May to 5 June 2022. The event was initially scheduled to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, but this changed after a leadership dispute. Medal overview ...

held in

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. BWL also called for Davies to resign from her role as Chair of the

International Weightlifting Federation The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), headquartered in Lausanne, is the international governing body for the sport of Olympic weightlifting. The IWF was founded in 1905, and has 192 Member Federations. The IWF President is Mohammed H ...

's Athletes' Commission with immediate effect. Davies has since stepped down from her position as chair of the IWF Athletes' Commission. Davies won Gold medals representing England at the

2022 Commonwealth Games The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England bet ...

(-71 kg). Davies is the current holder of 6 British records across 2 different weight classes.

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