Congratulations to Bingley Harrier Rebekah Tiler who on the back of becoming the youngest weightlifter to win a senior women’s British title as she took gold in 69kg class in Coventry has been selected to represent England in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Rebekah Tiler may be the youngest competitor in England’s weightlifting and powerlifting squad for the Commonwealth Games squad in Glasgow.
But that doesn’t mean that the 15-year-old is merely making up the numbers for Glasgow 2014.
According to British Weight Lifting, the Bingley Grammar School pupil “is one of England’s strongest medal contenders”.
The teenager is in the women’s 69kg class, and goes to Scotland on the back of getting silver at the European Youth Champion-ships in April before being crowned as Britain’s young-est winner of a British senior title earlier this month in Coventry.