Louise Sugden
Louise Sugden is a British powerlifter and former international wheelchair basketball player.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. She competed in the Beijing and London Paralympic Games.
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.
