Ninety-eight national records in one yearSourced
A teenage weightlifter.
Ninety-eight records in a year.
Zoe Smith was invited to try weightlifting while training as a gymnast. In 2008 she set British national records 98 times across junior and senior classes. She later competed at the Olympics.
A chance invitation
led to a mountain of records.
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