Toh's father was Ho Peng Khoen, a school teacher and Malayan weightlifting champion. He encouraged Ho to weightlift in order to build up her strength, rewarding her with small gifts as she lifted greater weights. Eventually she mastered the snatch-lift.
Ho also entered beauty pageants winning several times but was forced to stop following the Japanese invasion of Singapore during World War II. She tried again after the war but her boyfriend asked her to stop as she was too successful.
Personal lifeEdit
Ho married a photographer at age 28 and give birth to her first child at 29. Her husband died at age 59.[3]
ReferencesEdit
^The weight lifter and three-time Miss Singapore great-grandma. Alyssa Woo, contented, 20 April 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
^Singapore's 1940s teenage weightlifting beauty queen. Heather Chen, BBC News, 7 August 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
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