Sarah Davies (weightlifter)

Before her weightlifting career, Davies was active in beauty pageantry, winning the Miss Leeds title.[2]

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.[3]

In April 2022, Davies was sanctioned by British Weight Lifting after she admitted making derogatory comments against a fellow competitor. As part of the sanction Davies was deselected from the GB team for the 2022 European Championships. BWL also called for Davies to resign her position as chair of the International Weightlifting Federation's Athlete Commission.

• Sarah Davies at IWF
• Sarah Davies at IWF
• Sarah Davies at Institute for Applied Training Science (IAT) (in German)
• Sarah Davies at Olympedia
• Sarah Davies at the Commonwealth Games Federation
• Profile at britishweightlifting.org