{"id":57437,"date":"2013-12-09T15:27:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T11:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=57437"},"modified":"2013-12-09T15:27:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T11:27:50","slug":"uks-strongest-schoolgirl-says-her-success-is-due-to-the-bendy-joint-condition-that-once-left-her-in-agony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=57437","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s strongest schoolgirl says her success is due to the bendy joint condition that once left her in agony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/o_860225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-57433\" alt=\"o_860225\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/o_860225.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/o_860225.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/o_860225-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/o_860225-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>A 16-year-old has become the UK\u2019s strongest schoolgirl \u2013 and says her success is thanks to a joint condition that used to cause her agonising pain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Laresce Browne, from Eccles, Manchester, has six British and World Champion powerlifting records under her belt &#8211; yet until just two years ago a condition called hypermobility left her in so much pain she was unable to take part in sport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rather than let her condition limit her life, Laresce took inspiration from her weight-lifting father, Adam, 39, and began pumping iron.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This put an end to her pain and she became champion in her field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She now holds a UK record for deadlifting more than twice her own bodyweight after lifting 105kg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She can also bench press her own bodyweight of 50kg (7st 12lbs).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>From birth, Laresce\u2019s toes and knees grew inward and doctors diagnosed her with metatarsus varus, commonly known as pigeon toe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The condition means her feet turned inwards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It usually corrects itself by the age of eight or nine and does not require treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old has become the UK\u2019s strongest schoolgirl \u2013 and says her success is thanks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":57433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}