Student Noorin Gulan, a champion weightlifter from Bournemouth University is hoping to earn gold at the English Weightlifting championships in Leeds this weekend. Noorin will be competing in the lightweight 53-58 kilogram weight category.
After winning the 2014 UK female weightlifting championship and claiming the English title last year, she is hopeful to retain her crown at the championship this weekend.
However her ambition doesn’t stop at national competitions, the ultimate aim is for her to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Noorin has now been weightlifting for five years and said that her passion started when she was 15.
“My coach at the time took me to a competition and since then I’ve just loved it.”
Since her early weightlifting days she still says that there is common misconception with the sport. “They weren’t really aware of what olympic weightlifting was, they thought I was a bodybuilder asked me to show my guns. I don’t have any and don’t really need them.”
Noorin states that despite the misconception there a lot more women wanting to engage in weightlifting. After trying to get other girls involved last year she was amazed at the turnaround, stating that more women had joined her club than men.
Courtesy of: Buzz