Anthony Peddle
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| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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11 February 1971 Northampton, United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Powerlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | -48 kg Category | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Anthony Peddle (born 11 February 1971) was a British Paralympic weightlifter. Peddle competed in seven Summer Paralympic Games a record number for a British athlete.[1] He won gold at the 2000 Games in Sydney and a bronze medal in both the 1992 and 1996 Games.
Personal history
Peddle was born in Northampton in 1971.[2] He has spina bifida.[3]
Sporting career
Peddle took up weightlifting whilst a teenager. At the age of 17 he was selected to compete for the Great Britain team at the 1988 Summer Paralympics at Seoul.[4] Four years later he won his first Paralympic medal, a bronze in the 52kg weightlifting at Barcelona.[5] In 1994 Peddle won silver at the IPC Powerlifting World Championships in Upsalla in the 48kg category.[5] He then added a second Paralympic bronze medal at the 1996 Game in Atlanta.[5] He continued his run of medals with another second place at the 1998 IPC Powerlifting World Championships.[5]
At the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Peddle set a new world record of 168kg in the -48kg, winning the gold medal in the process.[2] This would be his last major medal though Peddle would go on to compete in three more Paralympics ending his career on home soil at the 2012 Games in London.[4] As well as representing Great Britain, Peddle took part in one Commonwealth Games as part of the England team. There he competed in the Bench Press, finishing eleventh.[5]
References
- ↑ "Meet GB's Powerlifting Team". channel4.com. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- 1 2 "Anthony Peddle". paralympics.org.uk. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ↑ "Peddle to the medal". thescottishsun.co.uk. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- 1 2 "Paralympics 2012: Powerlifter Anthony Peddle hangs up his stretch suit". thescottishsun.co.uk. 30 August 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Peddle, Anthony". ipc.infostradasports.com. Retrieved 6 December 2015.