Wow, Wow , Wow - Homeless yet 4 time world power lifting champion.
At the age of 16, Monique Newton was homeless and suicidal. She went on to become a four-time world powerlifting champion :- Aged three, Monique was diagnosed with ganglia neuroblastoma. Her parents were told that in a year's time, she would be in a wheelchair, and within two years she would be dead.
But after operations, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, Monique defied the odds. She survived and returned to almost full health.
At that point, Monique was at her lowest psychological ebb, in a hostel for the young and homeless, after a stint in hospital following a mental breakdown.
She had suffered depression from the age of ten. As she entered her teens, the rows with her parents had grown worse.
Aged 15, she left home.
"Because we had arguments," she says, "Ups and downs…"
Monique spent seven months being treated for clinical depression in the Priory Hospital in Roehampton, south-west London. She then stayed in a west London hostel run by youth homelessness charity Centrepoint.
It was there, in January 2010, that she made a life-changing decision.
And so the 5ft 4 teenager decided to take up powerlifting. Even she doesn't really know why.
After four months, Monique entered her first powerlifting competition. After 10 months, in November 2010, she travelled to Mikkeli, Finland, funded by a Centrepoint bursary, and won her first world powerlifting championship.
Monique, 24, has now broken 45 British and European powerlifting records. She has won four world championships in her age and weight category, when she was 18, 19, 20 and 22.
Monique never got money for her powerlifting. But after the sweat, and tears, she did get glory.
There's no hiding her grin now.
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Posted by: Ravi Narasimhan <ravi.narasimhan.in@gmail.com>
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