{"id":779002,"date":"2026-07-04T03:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/779002\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T03:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:36:29","slug":"87-year-old-oregon-woman-becomes-world-record-holder-in-powerlifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/779002\/","title":{"rendered":"87-year-old Oregon woman becomes world record holder in powerlifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) &#8211; A local athlete who didn\u2019t start going to the gym until she was 71 is now a world record holder in powerlifting at 87 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ten years into her powerlifting journey, Rosemary Nichols just set state and national records in three categories for her age group at the National Powerlifting League Western regionals in Newport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nichols became a world record holder last July at the U.S. Powerlifting Association Nationals in Pittsburgh, alongside her current trainer, Kyle Singh, who sends her custom workout plans from Eugene.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KPTV-KPDX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) &#8211; A local athlete who didn\u2019t start going to the gym until she was 71&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49,48,407,84],"class_list":["post-779002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}