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Britain's Emily Campbell during the Women's Weightlifting +81kg at South Paris Arena on the sixteenth day of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games in France, August 11, 2024
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EMILY CAMPBELL closed the show with a cartwheel after clinching bronze in the women’s +81kg category today to become the first British weightlifter to win two Olympic medals in over half a century.
The Nottingham 30-year-old celebrated on stage after setting a new combined personal best of 288kg over snatch and clean-and-jerk disciplines to finish behind defending champion Li Wenwen of China and 21-year-old Park Hye-jeong of South Korea.
An audacious bid to muscle in on silver with a last lift of 174kg fell short but there was no disguising Campbell’s delight after finishing with a cumulative total five kilograms better than the one that sealed her silver medal in Tokyo.
