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Ashleigh Hoeta recently broke all New Zealand weightlifting records just five months after suffering a stroke.
Just five months after suffering a stroke, 24-year-old Ashleigh Hoeta broke New Zealand’s weightlifting records.
The mother of two had also torn her rotator cuff in her shoulder in June and had only been playing the sport for 12 months.
“I really wanted to compete so after a month and a half I made the decision and yes, I pulled it off,” said the Taranaki woman.
“It wasn’t until I got home to my kids that I broke down because it’s not every day you’re lying in a hospital bed in March and five months later you’re the best in New Zealand.”
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Hoeta broke records at the New Zealand International Powerlifting Nationals in Hamilton on August 22.
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Hoeta, holding one of his many medals, is trying to rise to the top of the game and make his father, who is ill with emphysema, proud before it gets worse.
The squat record in her category was 130kg and Hoeta did 240kg, the bench was 85kg, she did 110kg and the deadlift was 160kg, she did 230kg.
In his first year of being in the game, Hoeta said he had increased his lifting capacity by 175kg.
An increase of this magnitude is recommended for approximately 10 years.
But Hoeta doesn’t have that time.
Her father, Ashley, is ill with emphysema and she wants to get to the top before he gets worse.
His father is his biggest supporter and the first port of call after each competition.
Not far from him in the fan club are his two children, Alaura-Jade, three, and Elijah, two.
“I called my kids after breaking the records and my daughter told her brother ‘Mom did it, mom brought another medal home’ and I cried like crazy.
“Every time I bring a medal home, they love to run and wear it.”
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Hoeta’s father and his two sons, Alaura-Jade and Elijah, are his biggest supporters.
He was supposed to have six months off after his stroke, but there is a world record in November that he wants to test.
“I have 12 weeks to train. It’s a 255kg squat, so that’s only 15kg more than what I’ve done. “
Other than that, Hoeta said that he doesn’t really have any goals.
“Just to break lots of records.”
