More sport Of the heaven to the hell she went. Mary Gregory, a transgender from the American Virginia, swept past month, just about all records of the tables in the powerlifting for women. Only were her top performance ongeldigd explained because… dopingtests showed that she is still in the transition was from male to female.

Gregory did the previous month, more than excellent on a national powerliftevent. So broke they are no less than four world records: the squat, the bench press, the deadliften and the total puntenrecord in her weight class. Afterwards, she thanked the ‘RAW Powerlifting Federation than to let her participate in the competition as a female athlete, but the federation was less in the clouds with the penalty performance of Gregory…

This message view on Instagram

A photo posted by null (@75marylifts)

Because, as it turned out after Gregory had actually must participate at the men. That, says Paul Bossi, the president of the federation. “The lifter has the current world records broken on the women in her age and weight class. Such exceptional performance will automatically be associated with dopingtests, at the end of the event will be decreased. Our rules, and the basis for men and women to separate for the competition, are based on physiological classification, not identification. On the basis of all information provided to the board in this case was submitted, we conclude that Mary Gregory was actually still in the transition was from male to female and so would have had to participate at the men,” said Bossi. Result: the records can therefore not be validated.