Kenyan Female bodybuilder Everlyne Okinyi scooped the top award at the Women bodybuilding 2019 championship title staged in Angola.
Evelyn who is a personal fitness trainer and proprietor of Eveal Health and Fitness was awarded the title by the International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness (IFBB) on Saturday.
It is not the first time that Ms. Okinyi has scooped an international award because she produced an exemplary performance during the annual Arnold Schwarzenegger Sports Festival’s held in South Africa in May. She scooped two trophies at the Sports Festival.
She has also received other awards in 2016 and 2017 having won the Ms. Kenya Figure award in 2016 and getting a runner up award in 2017 at the same competition.
She took to social media to celebrate her victory as she posted on her fitness Instagram account thanking everyone who helped her get where she is now.
“In my country, there exists good people, people like my better half Charles Owala who puts up with my prep sunny and dull days, but still kisses me on the forehead and says, it is ok. People like my siblings who go out of their way to let me be and support me where they actually don’t even understand what it means. People like Adnan who find it in their heart to go out of their way to partially sponsor a passion,” she posted on her Instagram account.
Evelyn had not thought that she will become a bodybuilder as her initial profession was banking. She quit her banking career to pursue her passion for keeping fit. She was motivated to venture into bodybuilding by her husband who had been working out ever since he finished high school.
“My husband had been training ever since he cleared form four. So, he was physically fit with muscles. After some time the synergy rubs on and you try it and you like what you see,” she said at a previous interview.
At first, her father was opposed to her decision to quit her job at a local bank, but years later he has learned to live with it. He actually loves what she does, said Everlyn.
Bodybuilding in Kenya is considered a male-dominated sport and it took a lot for Evelyn to be considered one of Kenya’s bodybuilders. She inspires other women to venture into the same through her fitness centre.
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