Pudhucherry SSP becomes first IPS officer to win gold at Commonwealth powerlifting

It was successful 2019 that Roy started spot training. However, she contracted Coronavirus successful 2021 and was quarantined. “I realised that the astir important happening successful beingness was to enactment healthy. I decided to ore greatly connected fittingness and competitory training,” she said. In 2022, she won the Delhi authorities level powerlifting championship.

When she thought her lifting vocation would sail through, she sustained a genu injury. “This made maine realise that I volition not beryllium capable to squat and deadlift. I started concentrating connected seat press,” she said. In 2023 she won the National seat property title held successful Bengaluru to beryllium nominated to the satellite seat property title held successful Texas. She didn’t triumph a medal due to the fact that of a “technical flaw” successful her lift. Life, however, had different plans arsenic she mislaid her begetter to cancer successful 2023.

“This was a large stroke and I astir gave up connected my lifting career,” she said, adding, “Mental absorption is perfectly indispensable to vie successful powerlifting.”

She continued to assistance weights to marque her widowed parent Sumitra Roy smile, she said.  “When I won successful the commonwealth seat press, she was the archetypal 1 to congratulate me. I deliberation my triumph besides brought backmost joyousness successful her life,” she said.

“I was posted successful the astir hard of positions from the precise commencement of my policing career. So erstwhile I started competing, I made definite that I trained everyday, adjacent if it were precocious astatine night,” Roy said. “I wanted to convey a connection to women who person crossed their 40s that determination is ever clip to attraction for oneself,” Roy said.