{"id":78280,"date":"2026-08-23T05:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T05:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/78280\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T05:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T05:56:19","slug":"meet-the-50-year-old-strong-woman-making-waves-in-rural-town-of-tullamore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/78280\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the 50-year-old strong woman making waves in rural town of Tullamore"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Sherrie Williams ever finds herself between a rock and a hard place, it is likely she will simply pick up the rock and throw it aside.<\/p>\n

The 50-year-old strongwoman’s feats are the stuff of legend around the small Central West NSW community of Tullamore, where she can often be found pulling a 10-tonne truck.<\/p>\n

“The truck pull is a flatbed truck, so something that would come and help you on the side of the road when you break down,” she said.<\/p>\n

\"Sherrie<\/p>\n

The events involve a number of different tasks, including lifting concrete rocks.\u00a0 (Supplied: Sherrie Williams)<\/p>\n

“Instead of it loading vehicles, you’re \u2026 pulling it.<\/p>\n

“It’s a lot of technique, funnily enough, more so than human power versus the weight of a truck.”<\/p>\n

Ms Williams’s journey towards super strength began 10 years ago when she decided to get out from behind her work desk and hit the gym.<\/p>\n

Not being a person to do things by halves, she soon started running marathons.<\/p>\n

“I went back into the gym, lost a lot of weight \u2026 did a bit of body building, just doubled with [marathon running] and at 40, learned how to Olympic lift,” she said.<\/p>\n

“That kind of led me to the people that were in that vicinity of doing strongman.”<\/p>\n

Loading…’Strongman’ for a strong woman<\/p>\n

For the uninitiated, the sport of strongman is far from your average weightlifting competition.<\/p>\n

“If you can imagine picking up and moving the weirdest objects over a really long distance or for a really fast amount of time,” Ms Williams said.<\/p>\n

“I love it, it’s challenging, it’s empowering and the options are limitless, you can’t get bored because there are so many different events.”<\/p>\n

So when a car accident left Ms Williams temporarily without the use of one of her arms, she discovered one arm dead-lifting, an offshoot of the strongman sport.<\/p>\n

\"Sherrie<\/p>\n

Sherrie Williams attempted the Guinness World Record in 2025.\u00a0 (Supplied: Anytime Fitness Forbes)<\/p>\n

Ms Williams attempted the Guinness World Record for the most weight lifted in an hour by a one arm deadlift.<\/p>\n

The record sat at a mind-boggling 20,000 kilograms.<\/p>\n

When the hour was up, Ms Williams had eclipsed that mark by 3,950kg.<\/p>\n

“I attempted that last year and I’m waiting to hear back from them to confirm that it’s all legit and above board,” Ms Williams said.<\/p>\n

“I’m actually planning to do my next one as we speak, which is just a max one-arm deadlift.”<\/p>\n

\"Sherrie<\/p>\n

In the 10 years since beginning competitions, Sherrie Williams has consistently been smashing records.\u00a0 (Supplied: Sherrie Williams)<\/p>\n

Showtime for the ‘human pull’<\/p>\n

Moving to the small town of Tullamore a few years ago, and pursuing her career as a gym trainer, Ms Williams knew she had found her place.<\/p>\n

But to make her mark, she decided to join the local show committee, and introduced the strongman sport to the program.<\/p>\n

Naturally one of the highlights of this year’s event was the ‘human pull’.<\/p>\n

Ms Williams said a few young guns and second-timers turned out to give it a go, but there was always room for more.<\/p>\n

“I highly, highly would suggest a woman who’s never done anything like this before to give it a try, because you just might surprise yourself and you just might open a door,” she said.\"Two<\/p>\n

The senior and junior human pull winners at the 2026 Tullamore Show.\u00a0 (Supplied: Sherrie Williams)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Sherrie Williams ever finds herself between a rock and a hard place, it is likely she will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,118903,54475,118899,15119,118901,118902,118900],"class_list":["post-78280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-sherrie-williams","tag-strong","tag-strongman","tag-truck","tag-truck-pull","tag-tullamore","tag-weights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}