For the Mobberley-raised mum of five will next month pit herself against the world's most powerful women.

Mighty Mom - as 42-year-old Jacqueline is known - is currently the strongest woman in her adopted Canada.

The statistics are mind-boggling. She has broken four national records, has a lifting weight of 108lbs and can squat lift 275 lbs.

But throw out any images of the pumped-up bodybuilder.

Jacqueline, whose dad Brian Caveney still lives in Mobberley, weighs less than 9st and is just 5ft 2.

"There are a lot of misconceptions that we all look like one of those Russian javelin throwers that wouldn't pass the sex test," she said.

Instead, it's all about sheer strength and nothing else.

"It's wonderful," she said. "It's given me some kind of inner strength.

"It makes you feel very strong personally and it's good for your mind, especially if you're a woman."

If she lifts well at the World Masters title in Argentina in October she could become the strongest woman in the world.

Jacqueline moved to British Columbia in 1989. She had first visited a gym only a few months before while living in Germany.

"When I arrived here I started going back into the gym," she said.

"The guy who owned the gym was a powerlifter and he looked at me and said 'you can do this thing'.

"I didn't believe him at first but I tried it and it was amazing."

After a year of instant success in competitions in and around her home town of Chilliwack, she left the sport to add three more children to her family.

When she came back into the sport in 1997 she found she had lost none of her natural talent - and promptly finished first in four major competitions.

One was the national title which is why she will compete with the world's strongest women in Buenos Aires next month.

Where does her strength come from?

"I think it's genetic," she said. "I think I'm gifted that way."

The training schedule is surprisingly light - with Jacqueline spending four two-and-a-half hour sessions in the gym every week with trainer and husband Dee.

But the work is demanding once she gets there.

"When you get to a competition you start to pick up and go up each week in weight," she said.

"It's quite tough."

Diet is no problem either. She eats plenty of low-protein, low-fat foods such as white meat and chicken supplemented with high-protein drinks.

"I don't have a diet as such," she said. "I just don't eat a lot of junk food."

Jacqueline knows quite a lot about the women she will be facing - and some of the methods.

"The only problem when you get to this level of competition is you get the chemical people," she said.

"Those who you can tell are 'cranking' and on steroids.

"I'm totally clean and healthy - that's the way I do it."

Sponsorship is always a problem in a sport which differs slightly from its Olympic equivalent and is therefore not financed by the Canadian government.

"In Europe it's a big thing," she said.

"We do it so we get the satisfaction but we have got to pay for everything ourselves."

But on October 7 Jacqueline thinks she stands a good chance of beating the rest of the world.

"I'm just going to do my best, knowing I did it clean," she said.

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