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Record for pocket powerhouse Tommy
Pint-sized strongman Tommy Campion has broken the world record for being the lightest competing bodybuilder.
The window cleaner turned muscleman entered the Guinness Book of Records after weighing in at 55.5 kilos – eight-and-a-half stone.
Tommy, who lives in Presthope Road, Pennywell, travelled to Manchester this summer for an over-50s competition where he weighed in at a record light weight.
Now the dad-of-three has received his official certificate from adjudicators.
"It's a novel achievement, I know, but it's still something to get yourself in the Guinness Book of Records," Tommy said.
"I've now got the certificate to prove it."
The 51-year-old, who is also a keen runner, said his low weight, is not down to dieting, but to genes. At just 5ft 2in tall, Tommy said he takes after his "slightly built" mum.
"I'm pretty sure that's where I get it from," he said. "She was this tiny, little person.
"I was only six stone when I left school at 16 and I almost became a jockey at one point. Somehow I got into bodybuilding and I really took to it."
Tommy began bodybuilding 25 years ago and for the past eight years has been competing as a member of the British Natural Bodybuilding Federation.
In recent years he has been placed fifth and sixth in national competitions.
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