SHE’S a Hampshire mum, a school teacher and she pulls transit vans for fun.

And now Jenny Warner, 33, from Hamble has just won the title of Britain’s Strongest Woman.

No one is more surprised that Jenny – a PE teacher at The Petersfield School, who took all of last year off from training with a back injury.

“I thought I might make the top three but I didn’t expect to win. I was pretty chuffed”, she told the Daily Echo.

In fact Jenny wasn’t always a strength athlete and only joined a gym four years ago to get back into shape after her daughter was born.

She only started competing in 2014 and before taking up weights her main sport was swimming.

To win the title of Britain’s Strongest Woman she first she took part in a Southern Qualifier round in Basingstoke in April then the top five went through to the qualifier for England in June in Tamworth and again the top five of that round went on to the Britain’s Strongest, which involved five gruelling events.

The first event, max dead lift, was to lift the maximum amount from the floor. Jenny was disappointed by her effort: “I only managed to lift 140 kilos, that was my worst event.”

But she made up for it. Next was the monster dumbbell lift from the floor to overhead. Jenny had to do as many as possible in a minute. She managed eight in a minute with five by the right arm and three on the left.

“I’m quite equal strength on both side so this was to my advantage,” she said.

“I was second overall in this event. The winner managed to do ten overhead.”

Event three, the yoke, is where the contestant carries a 190kg weight on their back and runs 15 metres. They then pick up and bring back a ‘farmers walk’ which is two 80 kilogram weights in each hand.

Event four involves sitting down and pulling a transit van with a large man inside – weighing a total of one and a half tonnes – for 15 metres. This has to be done within a minute and Jenny won this with seconds to spare.

“I was the first to finish and in the quickest time. That’s what got me to the top three. By the last event I was just half a point behind the first place”

Finally, the Atlas stones event in Northampton involved picking up four concrete stones and placing them on a 4ft platform. The stones are 60, 70, 80 and 95 kilos.

“I was the second quickest girl in this but the lead came third so I overtook her by one point and won the whole event.”

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After taking a week off Jenny – who is nicknamed ‘Muscles’ by her pupils – is now back in training for the Europe’s Strongest Woman title in December.

Students at her school are fascinated by her hobby and often ask how much she can lift.

The staff have even put up a pull up bar in the door way to the office and Jenny competes against some of the other teachers to see how many pull ups they can do.

Jenny’s partner, New Zealander David Swete, 32 – a professional yachtsman who has twice sailed round the world – was sailing off the coast of Australia when she won her title but was kept up to date on Skype.

The couple met when she was working in New Zealand as a PE teacher. Each week there is a sailing race in Auckland called the Rum Race, where the winners win a bottle of rum and David was on her boat and they won.

David said: “I am immensely proud of Jenny and her commitment to her sport. What she has achieved is incredible and is an absolute inspiration to others. Jenny is lifting superhuman weights in the gym and ‘Supermum’ is my nickname for her, while our four-year-old daughter Ella thinks Jenny is the strongest mummy in the world. She could be right.”

Ella has already shown a talent for weightlifting too. She sometimes goes to the gym with Jenny and once picked up a 25 kilo dumbbell. Ella only weighs 20 kilos herself.

Jenny is quite small for a ‘strength athlete’ at five foot six inches high and weighing 63 kilos.

There are three categories for strongest woman, under 63 kilos, under 82 kilos and open weight for larger women Weighing 63 kilos she is the ideal weight for the under 63kg category.

This is the second time a woman from the Southampton area has won the contest.

Last year Kat Bartlett from Southampton won and occasionally she and Jenny train together.

Jenny currently trains at the Pinnacle Performance and Training gym at Hamble boatyard and says none of this would have been possible without her coach Dan Smith.

Europe’s Strongest Woman will be held in Ash, Kent, on December 10 and if she reaches the top two she could enter the Strongest Woman in the World held in America in 2017.