Source: Good News Network
A 63-year-old was diagnosed with cancer just days after the disease killed his dad—yet he has now been crowned a bodybuilding world champion after beating the illness, and thanks his estranged father for the epic timing that saved him.
Only after he was raised by his grandmother, did Denton Wilson meet his estranged birth father Benjamin Wilson for the first time.
Just two weeks after getting to know each other, however, Benjamin died of prostate cancer, which prompted Denton, in his early 40s, to get himself checked out as a precaution.To his horror, Denton was also diagnosed with the condition and warned he could only have a matter of weeks to live.
He underwent surgery to remove his diseased prostate and then took up bodybuilding to regain his strength. Now, 20 years on and a grandfather himself, he has been crowned the over-60s bodybuilding champion at the world finals in Miami, Florida.
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Denton, a former youth and community worker from Sheffield, said: “I was given a second chance at life. His death gave me life. At the time, I knew nothing at all about the disease and I was healthy.
“If I never met my dad then I would have been dead a long time ago,” he added. “It was a dream for me to meet him and his death saved my life.
“I set myself goals and set out on a dream to achieve. It was overwhelming to be the best in Britain so to become the best in the world is incredible.”
Denton was born in Jamaica and brought up by his grandmother, then moved to England to live with his mother when…
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