A teenager who had a heart transplant 18 months ago has wowed doctors - by becoming a champion bodybuilder.
Brave Pete Wallis suffered a heart attack when he was just 13 and waited two years for the life saving surgery.
He underwent the gruelling five-hour operation to give him a new heart at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Now 16-year-old Pete, from Gosport, Hants, is in great shape and is one of the top young bodybuilders in the country.
He took second place in a regional event and has been invited to the National Amateur Bodybuilding Association competition, which is in Birmingham in November.
Born with a four-fold heart defect called Tetralogy of Fallot's, Pete had survived two major operations and a heart attack by the age of 13.
He took a dramatic turn for the worse in 2006 and in November 2007 was told a transplant was his only hope.
After the operation he had to stay in hospital for six weeks as doctors monitored his recovery.
He said: 'I was scared and worried that I might not make it through the operation but I knew it was something that would be good for me.
'When the operation was over, all I could think about was getting out and getting fit.'
With four members of his extended family involved in bodybuilding, he decided to get training.
At first Pete could only lift light
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