Mercy Brown (weightlifter)
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| File:Mercy Opeyemi Brown at Summer Universiade 2017.jpg Brown at the 2017 Summer Universiade | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Born | Mercy Opeyemi Brown 20 June 1996 |
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 90 kg (200 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain |
| Sport | Weightlifting |
Event | –90kg |
| Club | TSN Weightlifting |
| Coached by | George Manners |
Medal record | |
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Mercy Brown (born 20 June 1996 in London) is an English weightlifter. She holds three British records.[1]
Early career
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Brown started lifting in 2011 at the age of 15.[2] She earned her first medal (bronze) in 2013 at the European U17 Championship.[3]
Major results
[edit | edit source]| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
| Representing File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain | ||||||||||||
| World Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2014 | Almaty, Kazakhstan | 75 kg | 89 | 92 | 94 | 16 | 111 | 116 | 18 | 210 | 18 | |
| 2015 | Houston, United States | +75 kg | 101 | 26 | 121 | 123 | 126 | 28 | 227 | 28 | ||
| European Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | Førde, Norway | +75 kg | 100 | 103 | 2nd place, silver medalist(s) | 123 | 127 | 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) | 230 | 2nd place, silver medalist(s) | ||
| 2025 | Chișinău, Moldova | +87 kg | 104 | 108 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Universiade | ||||||||||||
| 2017 | New Taipei, Taipei | +90 kg | 98 | 5 | 125 | 134 | 136 | 3 | 234 | 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) | ||
| Representing File:Flag of England.svg England | ||||||||||||
| Commonwealth Games | ||||||||||||
| 2014 | Glasgow, Scotland[4] | 75 kg | 91 | — | 112 | — | 203 | 4 | ||||
Junior results
[edit | edit source]- 2016 European Junior Championships: Bronze [5]
- 2016 World Junior Championships: Bronze [6]
- 2015 European Junior Championships: Gold [7]
- 2015 World Junior Championships: 8th
- 2014 European Junior Championships: Bronze
- 2014 World Junior Championships: 6th
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Mercy Brown on TwitterLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- British Weightlifting Profile
- Mercy Brown on InstagramLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
Categories:
- 1996 births
- Living people
- Weightlifters from London
- English female weightlifters
- Commonwealth Games weightlifters for England
- Weightlifters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Black British sportswomen
- Summer World University Games medalists in weightlifting
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Great Britain
- European Weightlifting Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
- 21st-century English sportswomen
- English sportspeople stubs
- British weightlifting biography stubs