Emily Campbell

Emily Campbell
Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born (1994-05-06) 6 May 1994
Nottingham, England
Home townNottingham, England
Alma materLeeds Beckett University
Height1.765 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight112 kg (247 lb)[1]
Sport
SportWeightlifting
ClubAtlas Weightlifting Club
Coached byCyril Martin
Medal record
Women's weightlifting
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
2020 Tokyo +87 kg
2024 Paris +81 kg
World Championships
2022 Bogota +87 kg
2021 Tashkent +87 kg
European Championships
2021 Moscow +87 kg
2022 Tirana +87 kg
2023 Yerevan +87 kg
2024 Sofia +87 kg
2025 Chișinău +87 kg
2019 Batumi +87 kg
European U23 Championships
2017 Durrës +87 kg
Representing England
Commonwealth Games
2022 Birmingham +87 kg
2018 Gold Coast +90 kg

Emily Campbell (born 6 May 1994) is a British weightlifter, the most successful British weightlifter of modern times.[2] She is a Commonwealth and five-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.

Biography

Campbell is from the Snape Wood estate in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire.[3] She graduated from Leeds Beckett University with a Sports Science degree in 2016.[4]

Campbell competed in the women's +90 kg event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the bronze medal.[5][6] 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.[7]

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.[8][9][10] Later that year, she went on to earn a bronze medal at the World Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[11][12]

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.[13][14]

The British Olympic Association chose Campbell as Team GB's only weightlifter at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the +81 kg category.[15] At the Games she won a bronze medal setting a new combined personal best of 288 kg in the process.[16][17]

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.[18][19]

Achievements

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Olympic Games
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
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 kg did not enter
2024 Manama, Bahrain +87 kg 118 120 — 4 — — — — NM —
European Championships
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

References

  1. ^ a b "Emily Campbell – Weightlifting". teamengland.org. Commonwealth Games England. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Emily Campbell". Gold Coast 2018. Archived from the original on 12 April 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  3. ^ Thirkill, Stephen (2 August 2021). "Bulwell's Emily Campbell wins Olympic silver medal". Hucknall Dispatch. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  4. ^ Blackall, Molly; Walker, Amy (7 August 2021). "Tokyo Olympics: How two UK universities produced dozens of Team GB stars – and trained them over FaceTime". inews. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Feagaiga Stowers secures Samoa's second gold medal". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  6. ^ "Event Schedule - Women's +90kg". Gold Coast 2018. Archived from the original on 2 February 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  7. ^ Moore, Joel (1 August 2021). "Family of Bulwell's Olympic weightlifting star are 'so proud'". NottinghamshireLive. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  8. ^ "Tokyo Olympics: Emily Campbell becomes first British female weightlifter to win Olympic medal". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  9. ^ Oliver, Brian (2 August 2021). "Unstoppable weightlifter Li wins again as Britain's Campbell ends 37-year medal wait". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  10. ^ "Women's +87 kg Results" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  11. ^ "Emily Campbell: British weightlifter adds world bronze to Olympic silver and Euro gold". BBC Sport. 17 December 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  12. ^ Oliver, Brian (17 December 2021). "Stunning sweep of weightlifting world records for Lasha - and another medal for Britain". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  13. ^ Oliver, Brian (5 June 2022). "Landmark golds for Britain's Campbell and Norway's Koanda at European Weightlifting Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  14. ^ "2022 European Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). European Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  15. ^ Hinds, Rodney (July 2024). "Emily in Paris: Campbell is GB's sole weightlifter". The Voice. p. 47.
  16. ^ "Campbell wins final GB medal of Paris Olympics". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  17. ^ "Emily Campbell launches cartwheel celebration after bagging Olympic bronze". The Independent. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  18. ^ "Britain's Campbell wins fifth European title". BBC Sport. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
  19. ^ "Emily Campbell Makes History with Fifth Consecutive European Weightlifting Title". British Weightlifting. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
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