Zoe Smith

Zoe Smith

Zoe Smith at the London Youth Games in 2011
Personal information
Birth name	Zoë Smith
Nationality	British
Born	(1994-04-26) 26 April 1994 (age 30)
Height	1.59 m (5 ft 2+1⁄2 in)[1]
Weight	58.06 kg (128.0 lb) (in March 2024)[2]
Sport
Country	United Kingdom
Sport	Weightlifting
Event(s)	–58kg, −59kg, −63kg, −64kg
Club	East London Weightlifting[3]
Achievements and titles
Personal best	225kg[4]
Medal record Women's weightlifting Representing  Great Britain European Championship 2014 Tel Aviv −58 kg 2019 Batumi –64 kg 2023 Yerevan –64 kg Representing  England Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow 58 kg 2018 Gold Coast 63 kg 2010 Delhi 58 kg
Updated on 8 August 2024

Zoe Smith (born 26 April 1994) is an English weightlifter. In October 2010 she won a bronze medal in the women's 58 kg division at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, her first senior international competition, to become the first English woman to win a Commonwealth Games weightlifting medal. Smith competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and finished 12th in the Women's 58 kg division. After missing the 2016 Summer Olympics following an injury, she finished eighth in the 59 kg at the 2020 Summer Olympics. At the 2023 European Weightlifting Championships she won the gold in Clean and Jerk and the bronze in the 64 kg total category. She failed to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Smith took up weightlifting aged 12, when she was at a gym training as a gymnast and was invited to try lifting; she subsequently represented her borough at the London Youth Games. A few months after her victory at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, her funding was withdrawn as she was deemed to be insufficiently committed to the sport, but was restored a couple of month later. By 2018, a shoulder injury, the end of centralised funding for weightlifting in the UK, and the loss of her sponsorship, led to Smith moving back in with her parents and taking a job as a barista. Smith coaches at a gym in East London.