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Marital Status: Unmarried
Age: 25 Years
Hometown: Bal Sachander, Amritsar
Some Lesser Known Facts About Lovepreet Singh
- Lovepreet Singh is an Indian weightlifter who competed within the 109 weight class on the 2022 Commonwealth Games (Birmingham), the place he secured a bronze medal making a nationwide report of 192 kg in clear and jerk.
- Lovepreet Singh first developed an curiosity in weightlifting when he was 13 after watching a bunch of youngsters in his locality lifting weights. However, for Lovepreet, who grew up watching his father sew clothes in his retailer exterior their two-room village residence, lack of cash was the largest impediment which stood his weightlifting profession.
- When Lovepreet was in school eight senior weightlifters from his village Heera Singh and Rupinder Singh began coaching him. While Heera Singh is a weightlifting coach, Rupinder Singh is in CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force)
- He has been collaborating in weightlifting occasions since his faculty days at D.A.V.
- Apart from lending a hand to his grandfather in promoting greens, Lovepreet additionally labored as a Ghodiwala at weddings, chauffeuring across the groom’s mare.
- After seven years of arduous work and dedication, he was inducted into the nationwide camp in Patiala.
- He is a member of the Chandigarh Amateur Weightlifting Association.
- At the 2021 IWF World Championships, he ranked twelfth within the 109 kg weight class with a complete elevate of 348 kg, with 161 kg in snatch and 187 kg clear & jerk.
- Lovepreet Singh’s bronze medal was India’s second-ever medal in an over-100kg weightlifting class on the Commonwealth Games after Pardeep Singh’s silver within the 105kg, which he earned at Gold Coast 2018.