Hannah Crymble is best female lifter at National Senior Weightlifting Championships

Northern Irish 59kg weightlifter Hannah Crymble was named the best female lifter at this weekend’s National Senior Weightlifting Championships with an 85kg Snatch, 105kg Clean & Jerk, and 190kg total — all new Irish records in her weight category, as well as competition PBs for Crymble herself. Crymble’s Sinclair score — a measure used to compare lifters in different weight …

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“You Need to Eat!”: Four Koncept Athletes Talk Body Image, Confidence, and What Keeps Them Motivated

“You were led to believe that the smaller, the lighter you were, the better you were going to be,” says Hannah Crymble, who trained in gymnastics as a child, but the weightlifter, who represented Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games this year, certainly hasn’t conformed to gymnastics’, or society’s, idealisation of thinness over strength for women. Neither have fellow Koncept …

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