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Louise Sugden

Para powerlifting

Date of Birth

20 July 1984

Age

40

Place of Birth

Newbury

Club

Loughborough

Commonwealth Appearances
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Louise Sugden is a star across two sports, having won gold for Great Britain's wheelchair basketball team at the 2011 Para World Cup. 

She represented Great Britain at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics and again at London 2012 before making the switch to para-powerlifting. 

And the 37-year-old has not looked back since her wheelchair basketball retirement in 2017

Sugden won silver on Australia's Gold Coast back in 2018 in the heavyweight category. 

At 86kg, she picked up bronze during the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games. 

Para powerlifting
Para powerlifting sees the strongest athletes in the Commonwealth Games compete to raise the heaviest possible weights into the air.

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