Rebecca Roberts

Rebecca Roberts is a Welsh strongwoman and grip athlete, born on 18 December 1994 and raised in Bangor, Gwynedd, in North Wales. She won the World's Strongest Woman title in 2021, 2023 and 2024, which makes her one of only six women to win the title more than once, and she is the reigning UK's Strongest Woman. She studied forensic psychology at the University of Liverpool, discovered rugby through the university clubs and was introduced to strength sports in 2016 by her partner and coach Paul Savage. Her early titles came in grip sport, with the 2017 European Grip Championships in Norway, the WHEA World Championships in 2017 and 2018 and the 2019 British Grip Championships. She has also won the World's Strongest Natural Woman contest twice and the World Grip Championships twice, and she holds several world records. She lost around 50 kilograms between 2019 and 2021 to improve her stamina. After Savage died suddenly in 2022 she kept competing in his honour, and she speaks publicly about body positivity and mental health.