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Sarah Davies is a British International Weightlifter who gained her first international honours just a few years after starting the sport. In 2015 she became Britain’s first ever European U23 Champion and then claimed a silver at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast. Last year she set a British record for the snatch in her weight class and is in on course to represent GB at next year’s Tokyo Olympic Games.

Very recently Sarah became Chair of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Athletes Commission and she has been very vocal for a need for change in the upper tiers of the sport which has been the subject of much media attention after German ARD documentary ‘Lord of the Lifters.’

In this episode we discuss:

• Sarah’s journey from finding weightlifting in 2011 to gaining her first international honours
• The moments that have given her the most happiness
• Narrowly missing out on Commonwealth Gold in 2018
• Key sessions that have helped her compete at her best 
• Sarah’s routine before each lift 
• Her disappointments on this sporting journey and lessons learnt along the way
• Competing in beauty pageants in the UK and Philippines
• Becoming Chairperson of the new IWF Athletes Commission and some of the positives and challenges she has had to tackle so far in this role
• Some of the key life lessons that weightlifting has taught her
• How she will unlock her athletic potential and contend for a medal at the Tokyo Olympics next summer

In this episode we talk about a petition which Sarah set up to bring reform to the IWF Board. We’d love for our listeners to support by signing the petition via this link:

https://www.change.org/p/weightlifting-athletes-bring-reform-to-the-iwf-executive-board?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_25264305_en-GB%3A6&recruited_by_id=087372e0-0e6d-11eb-a70d-f169b73f9aaf&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial

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