Emily Campbell
Emily Campbell (born 6 May 1994) is a British weightlifter. 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. Biography. Campbell is from the Snape Wood estate in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire. She graduated from Leeds Beckett University with a Sports Science degree in 2016. Campbell competed in the women's +90 kg event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the bronze medal. 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 90 Kg category. 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. Later that year, she went on to earn a bronze medal at the World Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.