Day 3 European Youth Championships

Dale Cree and Michael Sheard started the day off in the men’s 77B group, both lifting in their first major international.  Sheard was the first of the British out on the platform and just held his first snatch of 90kg.  He then missed his next lift of 95kg but held it on his 3rd attempt.  Cree got his first lifts of 95kg and 98kg but was unable to complete his PB attempt of 101kg with his 3rd lift in the snatch. In the Clean & Jerks both athletes finished with successful 3rd attempts of 120kg and in both cases a new PB. 

Zoe Smith was next out, in what was one of the tightest groups of the competition, with any one of 7 athletes capable of medalling.  Smith never got under her first attempt of 73kg, so then had to come out at the same weight for her second attempt which she held.  Playing the board she went to 77kg to try and stay in mix for the medals, unfortunately this attempt was unsuccessful.  With the C&J her stronger lift she opened on 90kg, then lifted 93kg with her second attempt, again looking for a medal she went to 96kg which she was unable to hold.  She finished 5th overall on the day, but knows that with more consistency she is capable of competing with the girls ahead of her in the future.

Full results can be found here