Sarah Davies started weightlifting back in September, 2011, through the influence of her partner Jack Oliver. After six months of dating, Oliver convinced Davies to join him in the gym and encouraged her to try out weightlifting, and she took to it like “a duck to water”.
There are many different sides to Lancashire born girl, other than weightlifting and being a beauty pageant contestant. She is a county-level golfer, a Latin dancer and a former gymnast. She had always hoped that she would be able to compete in the Commonwealth Games as a gymnast, but never as a weightlifter.
Davies stopped doing gymnastics after finding it did nothing for her, unlike weightlifting. Despite focusing on winning a gold medal rather than a tiara, Sarah still wants to compete in future beauty pageants. In 2012 Sarah competed in the Miss Leeds pageant and won, but missed out on winning the Miss England pageant.
While training for the Games, the weightlifter is also training to be a PE teacher, but Davies has seen some reluctance in young girls to get motivated in sport. She believes that “if schools can get athletes into schools” it could help them get inspired and get them to focus academically and become more active.
Sarah hopes to prove to aspiring models and pageant girls “strong is the new sexy” and it is better to have curves and be toned, rather than be skin and bones.
Davies has dreams of one day competing in Rio 2016, and being the first British female weightlifter to win gold at the Olympics. She also hopes to become an inspiration to young girls in both the weightlifting and beauty pageant competitions, and I know she can do it. If Davies wins a medal during the Games, I see her being one of the leading female role models, along with Nicola Adams (boxing) and Victoria Pendleton (cycling: track).
So Sarah Davies, I wish you the best of luck during the Games.
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