{"id":60917,"date":"2026-09-17T11:54:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/the-deadlifting-grandma-martine-barons-65-is-triple-world-champion\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:54:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:54:41","slug":"the-deadlifting-grandma-martine-barons-65-is-triple-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/the-deadlifting-grandma-martine-barons-65-is-triple-world-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deadlifting Grandma: Martine Barons, 65, is triple world champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have seen such a huge change in my own physique and my capabilities \u2013 I am sure that my body is at least 20 years younger,&#8221; she told BBC CWR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When they invited me to the British and European Championships, I thought, &#8216;Well I have been invited it would be rude not to go&#8217;, but who thought it would lead to this? I didn&#8217;t,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barons said her journey, down to hard work and dedication over the past couple of years, has been &#8220;so exciting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have learnt so much, I have met people all around the world, and it has been delightful,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crd68wev7wj2o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have seen such a huge change in my own physique and my capabilities \u2013 I am sure that my body is at least 20 years younger,&#8221; she told BBC CWR. &#8220;When they invited me to the British and European Championships, I thought, &#8216;Well I have been invited it would be rude not to go&#8217;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[16764,1357,16762,3011,16763,2505,510],"class_list":["post-60917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-barons","tag-champion","tag-deadlifting","tag-grandma","tag-martine","tag-triple","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60919,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60917\/revisions\/60919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}