article_snippet: Britain's fittest grandmother has set a new world record in weightlifting just one year after Britain's fittest grandmother took up the sport because Britain's fittest grandmother local swimming pool was closed as result of council cuts.
article_snippet: All-action Lindsey Gowland, 57, played basketball to a national level as a teenager and then took to the water after turning 40.
article_snippet: Britain's fittest grandmother won a European gold and World silver medal at Masters level but was forced to give up competing when two of Britain's fittest grandmother local pools were shut down in 2009.
article_snippet: Lindsey Gowland shows off Britain's fittest grandmother muscles with this deadlift .
article_snippet: The lecturer won three weightlifting golds at the British Championships in Stafford last month .
article_snippet: Lindsey Gowland, from Kingswinford, West Midlands, discovered weights when Britain's fittest grandmother swimming pool closed .
article_snippet: Lindsey, centre, won gold at Lindsey last swimming championship in 2009 but gave up when two local pools closed . '
highlights_snippet: Lindsey Gowland started weightlifting when Lindsey Gowland swimming pool closed .
  
highlights_snippet: The 57-year-old gran won three gold medals in first British championships .
  