Louise Sugden
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| Full name | Louise Sugden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 July 1984 Newbury, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Great Britain England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair Basketball and Powerlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Paralympic finals | 2008 20122020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Louise Sugden is a British powerlifter and former international wheelchair basketball player.
Wheelchair Basketball[edit]
Sugden was born in Newbury. She started playing wheelchair basketball at age 13.
She competed in 6 European 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[edit]
In 2017 she started Para powerlifting. Nine months after starting in the sport, she won a silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[3] She was due to compete at the 2022 Commonwealth Games but withdrew due to a shoulder injury.[4]
At the 2020 Paralympic Games, Sugden won powerlifting bronze in the women's 86 kg category, securing the medal with her final lift. The Newbury lifter successfully made 131 kg in the last round to claim the bronze.[5]
Sugden was a guest on The Last Leg of Tokyo 2020 a few hours after landing in London.
References[edit]
- ^ Paralympic World Cup: Brits win wheelchair basketball gold, 27 May 2011, retrieved 13 April 2018
- ^ Louise Sugden, archived from the original on 14 April 2018, retrieved 13 April 2018
- ^ "Commonwealth Games: England's Louise Sugden wins Para-powerlifting silver", BBC Sport, 10 April 2018, retrieved 13 April 2018
- ^ "Louise Sugden has withdrawn from the 2022 Commonwealth Games". Team England. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ Sugden surges to powerlifting bronze, 1 September 2021, retrieved 1 September 2021
- British powerlifters
- Powerlifters at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Paralympic powerlifters for Great Britain
- Living people
- British female weightlifters
- Female powerlifters
- Commonwealth Games medallists in powerlifting
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- 1984 births
- Powerlifters at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- British women's wheelchair basketball players
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- 21st-century British women
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games