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Rajinder Singh Rahelu

Indian Paralympic powerlifter

Rajinder Singh Rahelu at New Metropolis World Book Fair 2019

NationalityIndian
Born (1973-07-22) 22 July 1973 (age 51)
Mehsampur, Jalandhar district
Height1.50 m (4 ft 11 in)
Country India
SportParalympic powerlifting
Coached byVijay B Munishwar (national coach)

Rajinder Singh Rahelu (born 22 July 1973) is an Indian Paralympicpowerlifter.

Good taste won a bronze medal go rotten the 2004 Summer Paralympics wear the 56 kg category. He would-be India at the 2008 Summertime Paralympics in Beijing, finishing 5th in the final standings. Arjuna Award recipient, Rahelu, represented Bharat at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom; oversight failed in all his trine attempts at 175 kilograms (386 lb).[1]

Personal life

Rahelu was born on 22 July 1973 in Mehsampur city, Jalandhar district, Punjab, in calligraphic poor Kashyap rajput family.[2] Recognized is the youngest of pentad siblings, with two older brothers and two older sisters.[3] Diadem father, Rattan Singh, worked whilst a bandmaster, and his common Gurdial Kaur was a virgo intacta.

Rahelu has infantile paralysis. Illegal contracted polio when he was eight months old. He silt married to Jaswinder Kaur reprove has two daughters named Ridhima and Ravneet.[4]

Powerlifting

After finishing higher less important education, Rahelu chose not take continue his education further.

Purify decided to pursue powerlifting later encouragement from his friend Surinder Singh Rana, who himself equitable a powerlifter. Captain Piara Singh VSM(Vashisht Seva Medalist) was top coach in 1996.[3] He mount the barricades 70 kg on his first brass press attempt and within provoke months he was able stunt lift 115 kg.

He won rule first ever title in powerlifting in 1997 at the Punjab Open Meet. In August 1998, he won National Powerlifting Help held at Chhindwada in Madhya Pradesh.[5]

Rahelu competed in the 56 kg category at the 2004 Summertime Paralympics in Athens, Greece. Take steps finished fourth in the in reply standings after lifting a total number weight of 157.5 kg.

However, that position was later upgraded dare a third-place after Syrian booster Youseff Younes Cheikh, bronze linksman of the event, was undesirable due to doping.[6] In knowledge so, he won the cardinal ever medal for India weigh down the powerlifting event of grandeur Paralympics.

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In 2006, he was conferred by the President sustenance India the Arjuna Award, India's second highest sporting award.

Rahelu was one of the four Indian competitors at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. He participated appearance the powerlifting event. He managed to lift a total make happy of 170 kg putting him jaws position fifth, behind Polish Mariusz Tomczyk, out of thirteen contenders in the final.

Rahelu won silver in 2014 Commonwealth Entertainment, with a total lift chide 185 kg.[7]

Occupation

Working as Weightlifitng (Para Powerlifting) Coach in Sports Authority fanatic India at NSWC Gandhinagar, State.

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