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Lucy Underdown

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Lucy Underdown is an English strongwoman competitor and police officer from Kent, born on 18 May 1990. Inspired by her twin sister Amy, she began in sprinting, moved to shot put and discus, and ranked first or second among British female throwers from age twelve into her twenties before retiring from athletics in 2017. She began competing in strongwoman in 2018, winning Brighton's Strongest Woman and Britain's Natural Strongest Woman, and entered the professional circuit in 2021 with a third place at UK's Strongest Woman. A deadlift specialist, she became the first woman to lift 700 lb in 2023, took second place at the 2023 World's Strongest Woman on a tiebreaker, and holds women's world records in the standard bar and elephant bar deadlift. She won Britain's Strongest Woman in 2024 and again in 2025.

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1990 1
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Female 1
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is an English strongwoman competitor and a police woman from Kent.
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    Lucy Underdown (born 18 May 1990) is an English strongwoman competitor and a police woman from Kent.
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    she is the first (and currently the only) woman to deadlift 700 lb
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    is an English strongwoman competitor and a police woman from Kent.
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    is an English strongwoman competitor and a police woman from Kent.
  • Competed In: World's Strongest Woman, Strongman career, World's Strongest Woman 2023
    she reached second place in the World's Strongest Woman competition
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