POWERLIFTER Shachar Head smashed three world records at a world championships event in the US.

But Shachar, 16, a student at Newton Abbot College, was forced to make a quick exit after the World Drug Free ­Powerlifting ­Championships in Boston to escape the ravages of superstorm Sandy, which devastated the Eastern Seaboard.

Her success at her first competition abroad was the result of months of hard training and made all the more poignant as she was watched by her grandparents who live in the US.