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Great Britain's Mark Swan and Rebecca Bedford win European Para-powerlifting golds
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Great Britain's Mark Swan and Rebecca Bedford won gold medals on day one of the European Open Para-powerlifting Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Commonwealth Games silver medallist Swan set a European record with a lift of 200kg to become European champion in the men's up to 65kg category.
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Bedford then beat team-mate Kim Dean in the women's up to 61kg category.
Her final lift of 90kg was just one kilo more than the best effort from the Isle of Man's Dean, who took silver.
Just moments earlier, Dean had taken the lead with her final lift of 89kg.
On day two of the competition on Sunday, Britain's Sean Clare lifted 147kg to claim bronze in the men's-59kg class.
Paschalis Kouloumoglou of Greece took gold with 175kg and Turkey's Serkan Cakmaz silver with 162kg.
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