Rebekah Tiler
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| Full name | Rebekah Jade Tiler | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | January 13, 1999 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Women's 69 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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
[edit]| 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
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| Olympic Games | ||||||||||||
| 2016 |  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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 |
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Representing  England
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| Commonwealth Games | ||||||||||||
| 2014 | Glasgow, United Kingdom |
69 kg | 91 | 4 | 118 | 3 | 209 | 4 | ||||
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Ben Dirs (9 May 2014). "GB weightlifter Rebekah Tiler, 15, dreams of Olympic gold". BBC Sport. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ^ "British Olympian Rebekah Tiler quits weightlifting at 19 as funding cuts bite". June 2018.
- ^ "British Women's Senior Records" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 August 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ "Rebekah Tiler sisters: 'In our house it's really competitive!'". BBC Sport. 11 August 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
- ^ "British Records - Female Classic" (PDF). www.britishpowerlifting.org. 26 July 2021.
External links
[edit]- Rebekah Tiler at the International Weightlifting Federation
- Rebekah Tiler at the International Weightlifting Federation
- Rebekah Tiler at Olympedia
- Rebekah Tiler at Team GB
- Rebekah Tiler at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
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- 1999 births
- Living people
- English female weightlifters
- Sportspeople from Keighley
- Sportspeople from Bradford
- Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic weightlifters for Great Britain
- European Weightlifting Championships medalists
- Weightlifters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for England
- 21st-century English sportswomen
- British weightlifting biography stubs