REBEKAH Tiler, who was the darling of British weightlifting only 17 months ago, is ready to quit the sport.

The 19-year-old from Denholme, who was a creditable tenth in the Rio Olympics in the women's 69kg category, says she now has no funding, no gym, no club, no coach and will soon have no accommodation.

She is now considering trying other sports, which is likely to include a trial with Bradford Bulls Women.

Things started to go wrong for the four-time European champion and twice World Championship silver medallist last summer when British Weightlifting's funding from Sport England was cut.

Rebekah moved bases in Loughborough from what her parents Emma and Chris considered adequate student premises to something that they felt was well below standard.

The trio had fears about hygiene and security at her chosen flat there, and relationships with British Weightlifting - who insist the health and welfare of their athletes remains a top priority - have deteriorated since.

The teenager refused to defend her British title last summer in protest at funding cuts.

And she ruled herself out of competing at next month's Commonwealth Games in Australia, where she would have been a strong medal contender, having come fourth as a 15-year-old in Glasgow four years ago.

Rebekah said: "I now have no funding, no coach as Eddie Halstead (who used to coach Rebekah at Mytholmroyd) is too busy going to competitions and helping out GB lifters, no club as Mytholmroyd is too busy, no gym and, over the next couple of weeks, no accommodation.

"It is a year and a bit since I had a proper session with Eddie."

Faced with that list of negatives, the former Bingley Grammar School pupil is now looking at other sports.

The two most obvious are athletics and powerlifting.

Rebekah came from a sportshall athletics background into weightlifting, while weightlifting's sister sport powerlifting has the squat, bench press and deadlift rather than the snatch and clean and jerk.

More intriguing options are rugby league and bobsleigh.

Rebekah said: "I fancy having a go at rugby and met Bradford Bulls' Amy Hardcastle at the Provident Bradford Sports Awards last Thursday at Valley Parade.

"She told me when they train and I will probably be going for a trial over the next fortnight once I have finished collecting the rest of my stuff from Loughborough and brought it back to my parents' house in Todmorden."

Bobsleigh is another option as it is a power-based sport in the sense that a tenth of a second saved at the start can translate to three-tenths at the bottom of a run, and many competitors make the switch from an athletics background.

"Someone else said that I should have a look at bobsleigh," revealed Rebekah, who was highly commended with Hardcastle in the Female Sportperson of the Year category last week, with the winner being 18-year-old karate star Katelyn Entwistle from Baildon.