Rebekah Tiler

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Rebekah Tiler
Personal information
Full nameRebekah Jade Tiler
Born (1999-01-13) January 13, 1999 (age 25)
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
Country United Kingdom
SportWeightlifting
EventWomen's 69 kg
Medal record
Women's weightlifting
Representing  Great Britain
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Førde 69 kg
Representing  England
Commonwealth Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Penang 69 kg

Rebekah Tiler (born 13 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
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
2016 Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 69 kg 98 101 101 10 122 126 126 10 227 10
World Championships
2015 United States Houston, United States 63 kg 93 93 96 17 118 121 122 13 211 13
European Championships
2017 Croatia Split, Croatia 69 kg 93 96 100 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 120 124 124 4 224 4
2016 Norway Førde, Norway 69 kg 95 98 99 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 120 123 126 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 222 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
2014 Scotland Glasgow, Scotland 69 kg 91 91 95 4 118 123 123 3 209 4

References

  1. ^ a b c Ben Dirs (9 May 2014). "GB weightlifter Rebekah Tiler, 15, dreams of Olympic gold". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  2. ^ "British Olympian Rebekah Tiler quits weightlifting at 19 as funding cuts bite". June 2018.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 August 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "Rebekah Tiler sisters: 'In our house it's really competitive!'". BBC Sport. 11 August 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  5. ^ https://www.britishpowerlifting.org/documents/1029_female_classic_records_26-07-21.pdf [bare URL PDF]

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