The strongest women in Wales are set to descend on Cardiff's International Sports Stadium this weekend in a bid to be crowned the best in the country.
Eight competitors will bid for the crown in the capital, with the competition getting underway at 11am on Sunday, July 17 - just before the Wales' Strongest Man event.
Here's the running order of the events: D1 . Truck Pull Harness+ Rope x2 D2 .Circus 42kg Dumbell x2 D3 .Tyre Flip x2 D4 . 100kg Sack Shouldering.
The eight competitors on the bill are as follows:
Anwen Jenkins (Glamorgan)
The Openreach fibre engineer only started training strongwoman just under a year ago, and is a relative newcomer to the sport, with this her first national competition.
Becca Roberts (Gwynned)
Undoubtedly the favourite. Roberts is the reigning World and UK Strongest Woman champion. The 27-year-old is already one of the biggest names in the sport, and will be eyeing further glory this time around. At 142kg, she's comfortably the heaviest competitor on the bill, and will be highly fancied to take home the title again.
Kelly Proctor (Denbighshire)
The 43-year-old has been a regular competitor since taking up the sport in 2019. She has previously run half marathons, trekked to Everest Base Camp, and has even climbed Kilimanjaro. However, strongwoman is her preferred sport, with the Chirk local recently finishing sixth at another Wales' Strongest Woman event held last month.
Sam Taylor (Rhondda Cynon Taff)
Finished third at last year's Official Strongman World Strongest Woman competition at Daytona Beach. The Newport City Council worker, who recently admitted to WalesOnline that competing helped save her from her lowest ebb back in 2015, where problems with alcohol and unprescribed medication nearly cost her everything. She's now one of the sport's most respected names.
Sarah-Jayne Wells (Torfaen)
The 39-year-old previously competed as a powerlifter. She won last year's WPC Championships in Manchester and came second at the European Championships in Portugal. Both were in the 90+kg category. This is the first national strongwoman competition for Wells, who works as a Senior Design Engineer for Torfaen County Borough Council.
Claire Myler (Powys)
At 50-years-old, Myler is the oldest competitor in the line-up, and is something of a seasoned veteran on the strongwoman scene. She won Wales' Strongest Master in 2020, picking up second place at Wales' Strongest Woman in the same year. She also reached the 2022 final of UK's Strongest Woman, eventually finishing 10th. A keen motorcycle enthusiast, she used to also compete on the race track.
Mel Smith (Powys)
The 35-year-old only really started training seriously around four years ago, but came fourth in Kaos Strength Promotions' Wales' Strongest Woman event last month. Away from the sport, Smith is a keen classical musician and regularly plays with the Roath Chamber Orchestra and Sororitas female choir.
Jade Presley (Carmarthenshire)
The mum of three from Llanelli has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the sport, which she only took up nearly three years ago. Searching for a way to recover from her battle with depression, Presley was competing just eight months after her first training session, winning the 63kg weight category at Wales' Strongest Woman, beating a number of experienced powerlifters along the way. She has since won three more titles and is also the Welsh record holder for axel, log, deadlift.
You can buy tickets for the event here.
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