CAMPBELL Emily Jade

Great Britain
Weightlifting
6 May 1994
27
Female
Olympic Scholarship
1.76/5'9''
NOTTINGHAM
 
Great Britain
NOTTINGHAM
 
Great Britain

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
WLF Weightlifting Women's +87kg 2 Silver Medal

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Tokyo International Forum
Women's +87kg Group A
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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World Championships
YearLocation+87kg - Total+87kg - Snatch+87kg - C&J
2019Pattaya, THA9th (267)13th (114)9th (153)
2018Ashgabat, TKM14th (248)12th (108)13th (140)

European Championships
YearLocation+87kg - Total+87kg - Snatch+87kg - C&J
2021Moscow, RUS1st (276)1st (122)1st (154)
2019Batumi, GEO3rd (260)3rd (115)3rd (145)


Legend
C&J - Clean & Jerk, (---) - no valid result, DSQ - Disqualified
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Athlete
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Sports Science - Leeds Beckett University, Great Britain
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English
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Atlas Weightlifting Club [Alfreton, GBR]
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Cyril Martin [club]; Dave Sawyer [national]
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Her younger sister Kelsie represented Jamaica in swimming at the 2016 World Short Course Championships in Windsor, ON, Canada. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Nov 2017; sportsaid.org.uk, 09 Oct 2016)
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She has won medals at national U23 competitions in hammer throw and shot put. As a child she was a county-level basketball player. (fuerzamagazine.wordpress.com, 08 Jun 2020; insidethegames.biz, 21 Oct 2017)
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She tore the medial collateral ligament in her knee at the 2017 U23 European Championships in Durres, Albania, and was forced to miss the world championships the same year. (physiolabinfohub.com, 15 Oct 2018; nottingham.ac.uk, 05 Apr 2018)

She has suffered from patellar tendinitis issues in her knee during her career. (nottingham.ac.uk, 05 Apr 2018)
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She took up the sport at Leeds Beckett University in England. (promobrand-store.co.uk, 22 Sep 2020)
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"I used to compete in athletic hammer and shot at national level, and I went to a strength and conditioning coach called Yousef Ziu to learn Olympic lifting in order to become stronger for athletics. He proposed I should give it a go, and after some convincing I did and here I am. Clean and jerk is my favourite as I'm a lot better at it and I love the buzz of it being heavier than me. With snatch I have a love-hate relationship." (profeet.co.uk, 24 Jan 2018)
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To compete at the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games. (nottinghampost.com, 07 Oct 2019; profeet.co.uk, 23 Jan 2019)
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She trains six times a week. (nottinghampost.com, 07 Oct 2019)
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Her parents, and her sister. (sportsaid.org.uk, 09 Oct 2016)
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"You can have people support you but you have to believe in yourself. You've got to have confidence in your ability, otherwise the bar will not treat you nicely. It's 100% mental." (fuerzmagazine.wordpress.com, 08 Jun 2020)

General Interest

General
QUICK RISE
She progressed quickly in the sport and after just six weeks of training she qualified to compete at the British championships, where she was runner-up in her weight category. Eighteen months later she was part of Team England at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. "I was naturally very strong and powerful, but I didn't have very good technique. It was a lot of hard work drilling the technique over and over again. I progressed quite quickly, but at the same time I had to work hard for the progress. It has been a bit of a whirlwind." (fuerzmagazine.wordpress.com, 08 Jun 2020)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
She worked with teenagers in care as part of a pastoral team before starting to focus on weightlifting. "It teaches you a lot and was very rewarding. It was difficult, but is something I want to go back to when I'm done competing." (insidethegames.biz, 10 Apr 2021; nottinghampost.com, 07 Oct 2019)

Legend
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Silver Medal
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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