Louise Sugden
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| Full name | Louise Sugden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 July 1984 Newbury, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | louisesugden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  United Kingdom England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair Basketball and Powerlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Paralympic finals | 2008 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Louise Sugden is a British powerlifter and former international wheelchair basketball player.
Wheelchair Basketball
Sugden was born in Newbury. She started playing wheelchair basketball at age 13.
She competed in 6 Eurpoean championships, winning bronze in five of them. She brought home a gold from the 2011 Paralympic World Cup.[1] She competed in the Beijing and London Paralympic Games.[2]
She retired from international competition in 2016, then from the sport as a whole in 2017.
Powerlifting
In 2017 she started Para powerlifting. Nine months after starting in the sport, she won a silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[3]
References
- ^ Paralympic World Cup: Brits win wheelchair basketball gold, 27 May 2011, retrieved 13 April 2018
- ^ Louise Sugden, retrieved 13 April 2018
- ^ Commonwealth Games: England's Louise Sugden wins Para-powerlifting silver, 10 April 2018, retrieved 13 April 2018
Categories:
- British powerlifters
- Powerlifters at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Paralympic powerlifters of Great Britain
- Living people
- Commonwealth Games competitors for England
- British female weightlifters
- Female powerlifters
- Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- 1984 births