Emily Jade Campbell (born 6 May 1994) is a British weightlifter. Widely regarded as the most successful British female weightlifter of modern times, she is a double Commonwealth Games and six-time European champion, and a double World and Olympic medalist.
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. In 2022 she retained her European title, won the gold medal at her home Commonwealth Games in a new Commonwealth Games record, and upgraded her 2021 World Championships bronze medal to a silver in Bogota.
In 2023, Campbell confirmed a hat-trick of three successive European titles, before in 2024 recreating her 2021 success, winning her fourth consecutive European title and her second Olympic medal, a bronze in the +81 kg category at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. In 2025 a fifth consecutive European title came, with a sixth following in 2026. Later in 2026 she retained her Commonwealth Games title.
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 +87 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.
She won the gold medal in her event at the 2022 European Weightlifting Championships held in Tirana, Albania and retained her title, with a somewhat reduced lift, in 2023 in Yerevan, Armenia.
The British Olympic Association chose Campbell as Team GB's only weightlifter at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the +81 kg category. At the Games she won a bronze medal setting a new combined personal best of 288 kg in the process.
Back at the +87 kg category, Campbell won her fifth consecutive European title in Chișinău, Moldova, in April 2025 with a combined total of 281 kg. She is the first British lifter to achieve this feat.
In July 2025, Campbell was awarded an honorary doctorate by her former university, Leeds Beckett for her service to sport and advocacy for inclusion.
In 2026, Campbell appeared on Celebrity MasterChef, reaching the final.
Personal life Born in England, Campbell is of English and Jamaican descent. Her sister Kelsie Campbell is an international swimmer for Jamaica.
Achievements
Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank 1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank Olympic Games representing 2020 Tokyo, Japan +87 kg 118 122 122 150 156 161 283 2024 Paris, France +81 kg 119 123 126 162 169 174 288 World Championships representing 2018 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan +87 kg 104 108 111 12 136 140 143 13 248 14 2019 Pattaya, Thailand +87 kg 114 118 118 13 145 149 153 9 267 9 2021 Tashkent, Uzbekistan +87 kg 115 118 121 155 157 162 278 2022 Bogotá, Colombia +87 kg 119 122 125 5 157 161 165 287 2023 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia+87 kgdid not enter2024 Manama, Bahrain+87 kg118120—4————NM— 2025 Førde, Norway +86 kg 115 118 119 4 153 158 159 4 268 4 European Championships, representing 2019 Batumi, Georgia +87 kg 108 112 115 140 145 150 260 2021 Moscow, Russia +87 kg 115 117 122 145 150 154 276 2022 Tirana, Albania +87 kg 110 114 118 142 148 153 271 2023 Yerevan, Armenia +87 kg 110 110 110 4 136 143 — 253 2024 Sofia, Bulgaria +87 kg 112 116 116 146 151 — 263 2025 Chișinău, Moldova +87 kg 112 116 120 150 156 161 281 2026Batumi, Georgia +86 kg114114117151155159276Commonwealth Games, representing 2018Gold Coast, Australia+90 kg9999103—129129139—2422022Birmingham, England+87 kg117121124 GR—152157162 GR—286 GR2026Glasgow, Scotland +86 kg110114115—148155163 CR GR—278 GR
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