NJ - 10-Year-Old Orthodox Champion Weightlifter Keeps On Breaking Records

Fair Lawn, NJ - The basement is cramped. The tiled ceiling is low and the carpet worn. The washer and dryer hum in the next room. The only natural light comes through a window near the ceiling.

Walking across the room means walking along the walls to avoid all the weightlifting equipment.

This is where Naomi Kutin trains three times a week.

Naomi is a world record holder in her weight class, squatting 215 pounds on her 95-pound frame. A simple spreadsheet taped to the wall tracks her progress.

Most weightlifting champions train in glitzier gyms. But Naomi trains here, in this Spartan setting — the basement of her parents’ home in Fair Lawn.

She has no choice.

The world’s strongest girl is too young to join a gym.

Naomi is 10 years old, a fifth-grader at Yeshivat Noam, a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school in Paramus.

Source:  Star Ledger