Louise Sugden
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| Full name | Louise Sugden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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20 July 1984 Newbury, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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
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