This week we are examining the career of the Magnificent Myrtle Augee who is a two-time European Senior Weightlifting Champion, who won 8 continental championship medals across the disciplines.

She clinched four consecutive European Cup titles and took third overall at the World Championships in 1994.

Augee was also the last British Weightlifter to win a World Championship medal until Emily Muskett secured Clean &Jerk Bronze at Pattaya last year.

Myrtle Sharon Mary Augee was born in Greenwich, Greater London on February 4, 1965 

She competed in shotput at the Commonwealth Games back when Weightlifting wasn’t on the Commonwealth competition calendar alongside fellow Great Britain weightlifter Judy Oaks. 

Over the course of her career, Augee made five Commonwealth appearances for England between 1986-2002 and won 4 medals including Gold in Auckland 1990. The London lifter also represented Great Britain in the 1988 Summer Olympics and 1992 Summer Olympics.

Augee’s maiden European Weightlifting title success came in the 1993 European Championships which was held in Valencia Spain.

She Snatched 85kg to tie with second and third place at the interval then Clean &Jerked 115kg for a total of 200kg to come through from fourth and take the overall win.

That same year she won her first European Communities Championship, kickstarting a run of four titles in a row.

In 1994 she added 12kg to her European Seniors total in Rome, Italy, but had to settle for Silver overall behind Ukraine’s LubovGrigurko.

She bounced back a year later at Beersheba, Israel to reclaim the continental crown adding a further 2.5kg to her total.

Augeealso had success in Powerlifting where she won numerous titles at National, European and World events.

In 2009 she was awarded an MBE for her work as an officer at HM Prison Pentonville.