Rajinder Singh whose legs were affected by Polio in childhood won the SILVER MEDAL in the Commonwealth Games in Weightlifting category for India .
Rajinder Singh Rahelu, 2014 Athens Olympics bronze medallist, posted a best lift of 185kg to score 180.5 points and take silver medal. Nigeria’s Abudulazeeez Ibrahim lifted a massive 224kg to take gold medal, translating to 197 points.
Rajinder Singh Rahelu, 2014 Athens Olympics bronze medallist, posted a best lift of 185kg to score 180.5 points and take silver medal. Nigeria’s Abudulazeeez Ibrahim lifted a massive 224kg to take gold medal, translating to 197 points.
Rajinder Singh Rahelu was affected by polio when he was 8 months old. On Tuesday, when he returned back after the historic feat, the whole village was there at the Phillaur railway station to receive the son of the soil.
“It is a dream homecoming but life was never that easy in all these years. I was the youngest amongst the five siblings. My parents used to drop me and pick up from school. Since my father was a band master and was very poor, he didn’t even get me a tricycle,” said Rahelu. He kept studying in the village school till Class VIII but had to leave his studies in between as his family was unable to drop him to school in the nearby village every day.
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