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She ranked No.1 in British Columbia in the 75 kg category and made it to the national team with a highest total of 219 kg in March. She was a part of the 13-member Canadian weightlifting team for the quadrennial event. It will be a proud moment for us when she wears the Team Canada […]

She ranked No.1 in British Columbia in the 75 kg category and made it to the national team with a highest total of 219 kg in March.

She was a part of the 13-member Canadian weightlifting team for the quadrennial event. It will be a proud moment for us when she wears the Team Canada jersey at the Pan American Games. She was Canada’s only weightlifter to qualify for the Youth Olympic Games in 2010.

She also lifted a silver medal in the snatch event in the Junior World Championship in Lima, Peru, and bagged another silver in the Senior Commonwealth Championships in Malaysia in 2013. She won her first international gold medal at the Sub-Youth Pan American Championship in 2006, and repeated that win in 2007.

Her father, Harnek Singh won his last national title in Jamshedpur in 1989 where he set a national record with a lift of 189 kg in the 82.5 kg category before immigrating to Canada ,Prabdeep was born in Talwan village in 1993 .

In Canada’s Surrey, Harnek started working in tree plantations while keeping his passion for weightlifting alive, inspiring Prabdeep and her younger sister Simerdeep to choose the sport in 2002. He is now a truck driver.

~ Source: IndianExpress