Myrtle Augee

Augee represented Great Britain in the 1988 Summer Olympics and 1992 Summer Olympics.[1]

She competed at four Commonwealth Games and won a medal on all four occasions. Representing England in 1986 she won a bronze medal, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[2][3] Four years later she represented England and won a gold medal, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.[4][5] This was followed by a silver medal, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.[6][7] The final appearance was when she represented England and won another silver, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[8][9]

Her personal best put was 19.03 metres, achieved in June 1990 in Cardiff placing her second on the British outdoor list, behind Judy Oakes.[10] She was also a World Champion in powerlifting, and a World Championship medalist in weightlifting. As of 2019, she remains the last British weightlifter to win a World Championships overall medal, a bronze in 1994 World Weightlifting Championships. She was the last British lifter to win a medal of any type until Emily Godley's clean and jerk bronze medal in 2019.

• sports-reference
• Myrtle Augee at World Athletics