At 47, Mother of teens wins 4 gold medals

Roshan Bint Raheem India: A 47-year-old Bhavana Tokekar, who hails from Maharashtra, a mother of two teenagers, defined the norms, who won four gold medals at the Open Asian Powerlifting Championships organized by the World Powerlifting Congress (WPC), in Chelyabinsk, Russia on Sunday.
The competition had 500 players taking part, of which, 14 were from India. Tokekar, who weighed in 64.9 kg, took part in the ‘Under 67.5 Masters 2’category. This was her first competition.
Bhavna Tokekar, whose husband Gp Capt S Tokekar is an Indian Air Force fighter pilot, encouraged her to join the gym classes.
Initially, she took up gym classes to reduce the side effects of medicines she took for the treatment of skin inflammation. But it was when IAF bodybuilding team told her about the benefits weight lifting in increasing her body strength that her liking for weight lifting reached its peak.
She began her training at 41 but wanted to be sure so that she won’t injure herself doing the wrong technique.