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CHRISTIAN MALCOLM JEMMA LOWE Michaela Breeze
200m /100m Relay 100m and 200m fly 63kg Womens
Christian Malcolm’s arrival on the Jemma Lowe fi rst represented Britain in Weightlifting
international circuit came in Zurich in 1997 2004 – since then, she has made major
when he beat the legendary Carl Lewis. strides – fi nishing sixth at the 2006 A back injury sustained in 2000 did little
Commonwealth Games in the 200m fl y to dampen her medal dreams at the 2002
Twelve months later and he thrilled the as well as claiming two of silvers at the Manchester Commonwealth Games
nation by clinching 200m silver at the Kuala European Junior Championships in the where she took gold in the snatch and
Lumpur Commonwealth Games in an same year (100m fl y and 200m fl y). silver in the clean and jerk and combined
European Junior and Welsh senior record total.
time. Jemma – whose father is from Cardiff -
also had a fantastic 2007 and in August Her status and continued competitive
At the age of 21, he stormed through to at the National Championships in success assured her a place at the Athens
the fi nals at the Sydney Olympics where he Sheffi eld she set a new British senior Olympics, where she went on to fi nish
fi nished fi fth. record for the 100m Butterfl y of 58.73 ninth in the 58kg category, equalling her
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seconds .This talented teenager is also British record.
Prior to the Athens Olympic Games in the Welsh record holder for the 50m,
2004, the Newport sprinter – who had 100m and British record holder for the At the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth
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trials with QPR and Nottingham Forest 200m Butterfl y which she set on the way Games, she secured Wales’ fi rst gold
when he was younger – was hospitalised to becoming British Champion at the medal in the 63kg women’s weightlifting
with kidney failure during his preparations Olympic trials in Sheffi eld in April 2008. event.
at the Team GB holding camp in Cyprus.
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It hasn’t all been plain sailing for Lowe. She broke the Games record by lifting a
for no extra cost
Yet, despite the very serious setback, In 2002, she qualifi ed for the Nationals 100kg weight in the Snatch competition
Malcolm did get out of the blocks and but she was forced to withdraw due to – a weight she had never lifted before in
managed to reach the semi-fi nals of the a broken toe! “I was running and I got her life. Not even in training. She amassed
200m. it caught in the hole at the bottom of a anther Games record in the overall score
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plant pot!” which secured the top podium position.
Lowe is forced to juggle training with She has now gone up a weight division and
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A-levels in drama, geography and P.E. will be the only British woman competing
in the weightlifting events in Beijing.
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“Nobody believes you when you say
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you’re going up a weight but I just felt that
I had much more in me and I had to go
up a weight to do it. And it was the right
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