FISCHER Sarah

World Championships

Year	Location	87kg - Total	87kg - Snatch	87kg - C&J
2019	Pattaya, THA	10th (222)	14th (97)	9th (125)

European Championships

Year	Location	90kg	90kg - Snatch	90kg - Clean & Jerk	87kg - Total	87kg - Snatch	87kg - C&J
2021	Moscow, RUS	-	-	-	7th (222)	9th (99)	7th (123)
2019	Batumi, GEO	-	-	-	3rd (231)	4th (102)	3rd (129)
2018	Bucharest, ROU	2nd (226)	3rd (101)	3rd (125)	-	-	-

Junior World Championships

Year	Location	90kg	90kg - Snatch	90kg - Clean & Jerk
2018	Tashkent, UZB	3rd (224)	2nd (98)	2nd (126)

Legend
C&J - Clean & Jerk, (---) - no valid result, DSQ - Disqualified

Cosmetics. (canterburystrength.com, 20 Jan 2019)

Athlete

English, German

Ewald Fischer [father], AUT

Her brother David Fischer has represented Austria in weightlifting, winning silver in the 105kg category at the 2018 European Junior Championships in Zamosc, Poland. Her father Ewald is a weightlifting coach and has been a member of the board of the Austrian Weightlifting Federation [OGV]. (SportsDeskOnline, 12 Sep 2019; diepresse.at, 30 Mar 2018; insidethegames.biz, 09 Jul 2020)

She began weightlifting at age seven, and started competing a year later. (canterburystrength.com, 20 Jan 2019; gewichtheben.net, 17 Oct 2017)

"My father [Ewald] was a weightlifter but it was my brother David who encouraged me to give it a try. He was teasing me to try it as he was saying he was stronger. So I took it up to show I was as good as he was." (gewichtheben.net, 17 Oct 2017)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (canterburystrength.com, 20 Jan 2019)

Winning silver in the 90kg category at the 2018 European Championships in Bucharest, Romania. (canterburystrength.com, 20 Jan 2019)

German weightlifter Matthias Steiner, Kazakhstani weightlifter Svetlana Podobedova, Russian weightlifter Tatiana Kashirina, Georgian weightlifter Lasha Talakhadze. (canterburystrength.com, 20 Jan 2019; fischer-sarah.at, 30 Jul 2018)

"For girls and women looking to take up weightlifting, just do it. Don't listen to guys who tell you it's not ladylike to lift weights. You don't have to be like anybody to be somebody." (canterburystrength.com, 20 Jan 2019)