Rebekah Tiler
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Full name | Rebekah Jade Tiler | |||||||
Born | January 1999 (age 22–23) | |||||||
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | |||||||
Sport | ||||||||
Country | United Kingdom | |||||||
Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||
Event(s) | Women's 69 kg | |||||||
Medal record
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Rebekah Tiler (born January 1999[1]) is a former[2] British weightlifter, who (as of April 2018) holds all three British Records in the 69 kg class.[3][1] She competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow where she finished fourth.[1] She was the UK's only woman weightlifter at the 2016 Olympics. She has three younger sisters: Lisa, Emily and Sophie.[4] In 2020 she switched to Powerlifting and broke the British Record on the Squat in the 84 kg class.[5]
Major results[]
Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
Representing Great Britain | ||||||||||||
Olympic Games | ||||||||||||
2016 | Rio de Janeiro, Brasil | 69 kg | 98 | 101 | 10 | 122 | 126 | 10 | 227 | 10 | ||
World Championships | ||||||||||||
2015 | Houston, United States | 63 kg | 93 | 17 | 118 | 13 | 211 | 13 | ||||
European Championships | ||||||||||||
2017 | Split, Croatia | 69 kg | 93 | 96 | 100 | 120 | 124 | 4 | 224 | 4 | ||
2016 | Førde, Norway | 69 kg | 95 | 99 | 120 | 123 | 222 | |||||
Representing England | ||||||||||||
Commonwealth Games | ||||||||||||
2014 | Glasgow, Scotland | 69 kg | 91 | 4 | 118 | 3 | 209 | 4 |
References[]
- ^ a b c Ben Dirs (9 May 2014). "GB weightlifter Rebekah Tiler, 15, dreams of Olympic gold". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ^ https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1065729/british-olympian-rebekah-tiler-quits-weightlifting-at-19-as-funding-cuts-bite[bare URL]
- ^ http://britishweightlifting.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/W-Senior-2.pdf
- ^ "Rebekah Tiler sisters: 'In our house it's really competitive!'". BBC Sport. 11 August 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
- ^ https://www.britishpowerlifting.org/documents/1029_female_classic_records_26-07-21.pdf
Categories:
- 1999 births
- Living people
- English female weightlifters
- Sportspeople from Keighley
- Sportspeople from Bradford
- Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic weightlifters of Great Britain
- European Weightlifting Championships medalists
- Weightlifters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for England
- British weightlifting biography stubs