WORLD S STRONGEST GRANDMA
Powerlifting champ, 71, who spends 20 hours a week lifting weights hits back at claims she’s ‘too old’ to be at the gym
Amy Reast
Updated: May 1 2021, 21:25 ET
Amy Reast
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MEET ONE of the world s toughest grandmas - an international powerlifting champ who says she looks and feels better than she did 30 years ago.
Mary Duffy, 71, took up gym work outs aged 59 in a bid to lose weight, and soon got hooked on lifting weights.
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she got the courage to enter her first powerlifting competition in 2014, aged 64Credit: Courtesy Image
Now she spends around 20 hours a week pumping iron and exercising, and has more than 30 state and world records to her name.