DAVIES Sarah

Great Britain
Weightlifting
19 Aug 1992
28
Female
1.62/5'3''
PRESTON
 
Great Britain
LEEDS
 
Great Britain

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
WLF Weightlifting Women's 64kg 5

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Tokyo International Forum
Women's 64kg Group A
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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World Championships - Part one
YearLocation64kg - Total64kg - Snatch64kg - C&J
2019Pattaya, THA8th (222)11th (98)9th (124)
2018Ashgabat, TKM15th (217)16th (94)8th (123)

World Championships - Part two
YearLocation63kg - Total63kg - Snatch63kg - C&J69kg - Total69kg - Snatch69kg - C&J
2017Anaheim, CA, USA6th (209)15th (88)6th (121)---
2015Houston, TX, USA---30th (202)34th (89)27th (113)
2014Almaty, KAZ29th (191)29th (86)28th (105)---

European Championships
YearLocation63kg - Total63kg - Snatch63kg - C&J64kg - Total64kg - Snatch64kg - C&J
2021Moscow, RUS---2nd (230)2nd (101)2nd (129)
2019Batumi, GEO---4th (223)5th (98)4th (125)
2017Split, CRO5th (208)8th (90)4th (118)---


Legend
C&J - Clean & Jerk, (---) - no valid result, DSQ - Disqualified
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The Barbell Queen (britishweightlifting.org, 06 Apr 2021)
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Athlete, Business Owner, Coach
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Physical Education - Leeds Metropolitan University, Great Britain
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English
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Atlas Weightlifting Club [GBR] / Wisdom 4 Weightlifting [GBR]
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Cyril Martin [Atlas]; Dave Sawyer [national]
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She competed in Latin American dance and gymnastics at national level in England. She has also played golf at junior county level. (telegraph.co.uk, 27 Jul 2014; thepositive.com, 25 Mar 2014)
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She was affected by a knee injury in 2021. (insidethegames.biz, 10 Apr 2021)

Injury meant she missed out on selection for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (lep.co.uk, 16 Feb 2018)

In 2013 she tore her hip flexor. It took her six months to fully recover from the injury. (Athlete, 04 Nov 2014)
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She began weightlifting in 2011 at the Europa Weightlifting Club in England. (Athlete, 04 Nov 2014)
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She took part in gymnastics until she was age 15. She then began playing golf, but after moving to university she had to give up the sport for financial reasons. She first encountered weightlifting after meeting British weightlifter Jack Oliver. "I was watching Jack and [British weightlifter] Zoe Smith train down at Europa and decided it would be much more fun to join in instead of watching, plus Zoe and Jack thought it would be fun to see how much I could lift. The rest is history." (jomec.co.uk, 08 Apr 2015; britishweightlifting.org, 01 Aug 2014)
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To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. (lep.co.uk, 09 Apr 2018; lancashirelife.co.uk, 27 Feb 2018; justgiving.com, 10 Dec 2017)
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She trains five days a week, completing three-and-a-half hour training sessions. She has one active recovery day when she sees her physiotherapist and does accessory work in the gym, and has a complete rest day on Sundays. (stylist.co.uk, 11 Feb 2021)
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British weightlifter Jack Oliver, who introduced her to the sport. (jomec.co.uk, 08 Apr 2015)
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"Never let people tell you that you can't. Always aim to be the best version of you, not to become someone else." (britishweightlifting.org, 01 Aug 2014)
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She was named Sportscover Weightlifter of the Year at the 2018 British Weight Lifting Annual Achievement Awards. (08 Jun 2018)

General Interest

General
BEAUTY QUEEN
She has taken part in beauty pageants, representing Leeds in the Miss England grand final in 2012. She has also been a finalist in the Miss International UK competition and in 2018 she was named Miss Intercontinental England. "I hope that because I'm so far from the stereotypical beauty queen, young people will realise that the way to get the body you want isn't through starving yourself. I also like that one breaks the stereotype of the other, as people think female weightlifters should be really butch-looking and beauty queens should be tall, blond and rake-thin. It shows you don't have to be manly to enjoy the sport and you don't have to be skinny to be a beauty queen." (Facebook page, 05 Sep 2019; Instagram profile, 05 Sep 2019; dailymail.co.uk, 04 Mar 2014)

WOMEN RISING IN WEIGHTLIFTING
She has been happy to see the level of weightlifting competition among women increasing in Great Britain. "When I started lifting, you could turn up to a national championships and win a medal just because there were no other women there. There were maybe three women in your weight class if you were lucky. Now, it's a battle to qualify and it's a battle for those medals, which is really cool to see. There is a shift coming. Since CrossFit took off and got quite big, there's been more women come into weightlifting and actually at the top end, the women in Britain are doing better than the men." (reuters.com, 08 Mar 2021; yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk, 27 Oct 2018)

COACHING
She co-owns the Wisdom 4 Weightlifting club and coaching business. She is a qualified physical education teacher, but has put her teaching career on hold to concentrate on weightlifting. (Twitter profile, 12 Oct 2020; bbc.com, 20 Jan 2017)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
She has served as chair of the International Weightlifting Federation [IWF] athletes' commission, as an athlete representative for British Weightlifting, and as part of the athletes' advisory committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. (iwf.net, 21 Oct 2020; Twitter profile, 12 Oct 2020; insidethegames.biz, 02 Oct 2020)

Legend
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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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