Strongwoman Red Wiard from Australia becomes 9th woman to lift the 332kg Scottish Dinnie Stones

Strongwoman Red Wiard from Queensland, Australia, becomes only the 9th woman in the world to lift the 332kg Dinnie Stones at Potarch in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This was during the Donald Dinnie Day, The Gathering VI, on Sunday 7th August 2022. Red is one of Australia's strongest women and an advocate for women wanting to improve their health and fitness. Before Red is Chloe Brennan, from Tamworth, England, also attempting to lift the world famous 332.49kg Dinnie Stones. She clears the ground with the smaller stone, a partial lift, but to be recognised as a full lift both stones must clear the ground. Guiding her was British strongman Matt Jones and local strongman Brett Nicol, who has lifted the stones himself over 400 times. In May 2019, Chloe aged 23, became England’s Strongest Women in the under 63kg lightweight category at the Lichfield Bower. The Dinnie Stones are a pair of Scottish granite lifting stones , with iron rings affixed. They were made famous by strongman Donald Dinnie, who carried the stones barehanded across the width of the Potarch Bridge, a distance of 17 ft 1.5 in 1860. They remain in use as lifting stones and have a combined weight of 332.49 kilograms (733.0 lbs), with the larger stone weighing 188.02 kilograms (414.5 lbs) and the smaller stone weighing 144.47 kilograms (318.5 lbs).