Rajinder Singh Rahelu- Sikhs The Supreme

A five-time national gold medallist in general category and 6-time national gold medallist in disabled category and 7 time strongman of India Rajinder Singh Rahelu alias Sodhi has done the nation proud by winning many golds in international competitions in powerlifting. He clinched Gold Medal in Asian Bench Press Championship at New Delhi in 2002, then Bronze in the Paralympics Games at Athens in 2004, again Bronze in the 9th Fespic Games at Kuala Lumpur in 2006, a Silver Medal in the Bench Press event in World Wheel Chair and Amputer Games at Taiwan in 2007. And again a gold in IPC Powerlifting Asian Championship held at Malaysia in 2009. For his Bronze at Athens in 2004, he was awarded Arjuna Award by President APJ Abdul Kalam. Rahelu suffered from Polio at birth. In August 2014 he won silver medal in the men’s para powerlifting heavy weight even to at the CWG in Glasgow. For him physical impairment was no challenge and he lived upto the Sikh tradition of high spirit and determination.

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