Karenjeet Kaur Bains

Karenjeet Kaur Bains, born on 23 July 1996 in Warwickshire, England, is a British powerlifter, former track and field athlete and television personality known for appearing on the television show Gladiators as Athena. She has won the Commonwealth Powerlifting Championships junior title and became the first British Sikh woman to represent her country at both the European and World championships. Her parents are Sikhs from Punjab, her mother came from a family of wrestlers and her father was a former bodybuilder and powerlifter. She started training with weights to increase her sprinting power, found she enjoyed powerlifting in its own right, and won her first competition after three months of training.