Strong Women's Story Set To Hit Screens!

Sam Taylor came 3rd in the 'World's Strongest Woman' back in November and wife Sue is 6th in World ranking. Last year the couple set a Guinness World Record when they pulled a 48-tonne Airbus A320 plane across a runway.

Sam and Sue are keen to share their story with the world. They've invested in the filming of a documentary which captures them training for the plane pull, preparing for Daytona and competing at the event in November.

Sam told us "Journey to become the World Strongest Couple, is obviously focusing on the fact that we're strong women and then we compete at the 'World's Strongest Woman.' But the background story is overcoming mental health issues, domestic abuse, suicide and going on to become strongest women in the world.

"We've done all the filming. We've completed all that, we're just in the editing stage now and we're hoping it's going to go out sometime this year and we don't know. Sort of where it's going to go out yet. But fingers crossed."

Sam is also pushing for the 'World's Strongest Woman' to be brought back on TV screens in the UK. She says their fan base is growing and supporters really want to see the women's competition on screen.

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She told us: "World's Strongest Woman was on TV up until I think about 2003 and would be aired around the same time as the men's event. I think those old shows you can now find on YouTube.

"I thing there's this big thing within the sport and within the strength community that it's not mainstream enough. People don't want to see a strong muscly women and so yeah, it sort of died a death.

"Then in around, I think 2015/16, World's Strongest Woman got resurrected and it's sort of grown from there really. But yeah, we're still not at the stage where everyone that we're on the telly with the men."

Pulling a plane!

Exactly a year ago, when we were in lockdown - Guinness World Records asked Sam and Sue if they wanted to pull an aeroplane. Sam told us: "I was upstairs working, Sue was downstairs. Sue got the call, came upstairs to see me and said 'I've put our name forward to pull an aeroplane for Guinness World Record.'

"I was like 'right? OK great. How do we train for that? No gyms, no access to an aeroplane.' We just kind of went with it and decided that we would turn up on the day. And if we could do it we could do it. If we couldn't, we couldn't. That's what Guinness World Records is all about.

"I think we were the first Welsh, first married couple and I'd have to check out if we were the first British couple, but we might very well have been the first British couple to pull an aeroplane. So it was an Airbus A320 and 48 tonnes. I think it we did it in something like 36 seconds over 20 metres.

"It's not until after you've done it, that it sinks in, because we literally did not know we could do it until it actually started moving. So all that sort of hype, and you know, all the excitement surrounding it, we really didn't know if we could do it. And I remember somebody saying to me, I'll tell you when it's moving. And I and I can't remember anyone telling me it was moving and the only thing I can remember is my hands were moving up the rope.

"So I thought, well, it must be moving because I am moving. And then we when we did it, we didn't realise we've done it. So the plane stopped suddenly and they put the brakes on and we were a bit like why did you put the brakes on? But we'd actually finished it. Actually completed it, so it was over much quicker than we thought it was going to be."

Empowering girls and young women

Sam is keen to use her platform to promote how strong women can be. Both she and Sue volunteer at the charity The Gloves Are On. It provides opportunities for children, young people and empowers families through education, guidance and support.

She says "Young people feel such a pressure to live up to a certain way that society expects women and young girls to live up to and then here we are doing all these sort of amazing things and when you go to competitions and shows - with parents and young people coming up to you and saying 'my daughter she wants to try it, and that's that's just phenomenal' - that's the best thing I could ask for.

"It makes the trophies not really matter that much when somebody comes up to me and says because I saw you pull a plane or because they watched you lifting something, I'm having a go. I'm doing my first competition or you know, my daughter wants to have a go with this, that's just brilliant!