Sarah Davies (born 19 August 1992) is a British weightlifter, competing in the 64 kg and 69 kg categories internationally and representing England and Great Britain at international competitions. She is a Commonwealth Games champion at 71 kg from 2022, and a double European Champion at 64 kg from 2025, and 63 kg in 2026. 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 2018 Commonwealth Games (-69 kg)and Great Britain at the 2019 European Weightlifting Championships (-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 held in Tirana, Albania. BWL also called for Davies to resign from her role as Chair of the International Weightlifting Federation'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 (-71 kg).
Davies is the current holder of 6 British records across 2 different weight classes.
Major results YearVenueWeight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank123Rank123RankRepresenting Olympic Games2021 Tokyo, Japan 64 kg 971001001271271332275World Championships2014Almaty, Kazakhstan 63 kg8386902910510810928191292015Houston, United States 69 kg8689913411311311727202302017Anaheim, United States 63 kg88919315118121124620962018Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 64 kg929495161181211238217152019Pattaya, Thailand 64 kg959810011124129130922282021Tashkent, Uzbekistan 71 kg96991027126129132234European Championships2014 Tel Aviv, Israel 63 kg 8080841410410810911188112015 Tbilisi, Georgia 58 kg 82868610106106110918892016 Førde, Norway 58 kg 83868871061061091119272017 Split, Croatia 63 kg 8787908112115118420852019 Batumi, Georgia 64 kg 939698512112512542234 2021Moscow, Russia 64 kg 96 98 101 122 126 129 230 2025Chișinău, Moldova64 kg96 96 99 6 123 125 127 223British International Open2019 Coventry, Great Britain 64 kg 96 99 101 1 123 123 127 2 224 Representing Commonwealth Games2022 Birmingham, England 71 kg 97101103112612613012292018 Gold Coast, Australia 69 kg 929595411912212812172014 Glasgow, Scotland 63 kg 838383610510511071887Commonwealth Championships2017 Gold Coast, Australia 69 kg 89929231151151203212
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