REBEKAH Tiler won a gold medal and two silvers at the European Junior and Under-23 Weightlifting Championship in Lithuania.

And the 16-year-old from Denholme also equalled her British senior clean and jerk record with a lift of 125kg in Klaipeda.

However, the former Bingley Grammar School pupil admitted upon her return to Great Britain that she was told to hold something back for the World Championships in Houston next month.

Rebekah, back at the venue where she won three European golds at under-15 level in 2013, said: “I had a brilliant week.

“The only bad things was the flight home. The banquet didn’t finish until midnight on Saturday and we had a four-hour coach trip to the airport for a 6am flight on Sunday.”

The third lightest of the ten lifters in the women’s junior 69kg category, the Mytholmroyd Club member had successes at 90kg and 94kg in the snatch and got the green lights for 116kg, 120kg and 125kg in the clean and jerk.

The Commonwealth Youth Games gold medallist won the clean and jerk and was runner-up in the snatch and the overall standings.

But, having failed at 98kg in her final attempt at the snatch, the teenager just missed out on equalling Michaela Breeze’s British record, which has stood since 2006.

Romanian Florina Sorin Hulpan won the snatch with 100kg, ahead of Rebekah (94kg) and Russian Ani Sargsian (93kg), and both Hulpan and Sargsian could only record 122kg l Turn to Page 60 in the clean and jerk, which was 3kg less than Rebekah, Hulpan, 18, won the overall title with 222kg, with 20-year-old Sargsian (215kg) behind Rebekah (219kg) in third.

The latter confessed: “I wanted to go for some higher weights but I was told by my coaches to hold something back for the World Championships in the United States next month.

“In the snatch, I made a technical mistake when I got the weight behind my head, but I wanted to go for 100kg.”

It was a successful championships for Britain as Sarah Davies took gold in the snatch, clean and jerk and overall in the women’s 63kg category, while Mercy Brown won the women’s under-20 75+kg category.

All three will be heading for the World Championships in Houston on November 20-28, alongside British team-mates Jack Oliver, Sonny Webster, Gareth Evans, Zoe Smith and Emily Godley.

Rebekah, who is taking a sports science course at Calderdale College in Halifax, which means that she will be nearer to her club, said of her forthcoming trip to the United States: “It is going to be really good experience and a fantastic competition.

“All of the girls will be older than me and my aim is to finish in the top ten.”

Rebekah is backed by, among others, UK Sport, the National Lottery, Herbalife and I&J Hewitt Butchers of Riddlesden.