New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

FROM ILLNESS TO RECORD BREAKER ‘I can face anything now!’

Helena Dinissen is a force to be reckoned with. The busy personal trainer has just won gold and two silver medals on the world athletics stage. But it was a very different story just five years ago.

“I was clinically depressed, unhealthy, unfit and miserable,” admits Helena, 38, who had been a talented athlete as a teenager but gave up sport after leaving school.

Added to her woes were endometriosis, a broken

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