A Nottinghamshire powerlifter said she 'couldn't quantify' how grateful she was to a retirement village that helped fund her gold-winning trip to the United States. Maureen Proctor, known as Mo, broke four world records at the WPC World Championships in Florida.
The 56-year-old from Gedling, known as 'Mighty Mo', who was defending the title she won in Portugal a year earlier, won the 100kg class of the masters division. However, Mo, a gym instructor at ExtraCare's Lark Hill Retirement Village in Clifton, said she had at one point given up the hopes of making it out to the competition.
"I'd resigned myself to the fact I wasn't going to be able to go, everything was going to cost a fortune. I thought I'd shelve it until next year," she recalled to Nottinghamshire Live. She had worked out that funding her trip would cost thousands of pounds, something she could not afford.
