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Emily Campbell makes history by becoming Team GB's first-ever Olympic women's weightlifting medallist as she wins silver in the +87kg category... with New Zealand's transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard failing to register a lift Emily Campbell won a silver medal for Great Britain in the +87kg category Campbell won Team GB's first-ever women's Olympic weightlifthing medal Successive lifts of 156kg and 161kg sealed her historic place on the podium China's Li Wen took gold with Sarah Rowen of the US having to settle for silver Transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard failed to register a lift and was eliminated
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Emily Campbell landed the first women's Olympic weightlifting medal for Great Britain with silver in the +87kg category.
Campbell went into the clean and jerk section of the competition in fourth place but successive lifts of 156kg and 161kg sealed her historic place on the podium.
China's Li Wenwen twice broke the Olympic
