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| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 May 1971 Northampton, United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Powerlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | -48 kg Category | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anthony Peddle (born 11 May 1971) was a British Paralympic powerlifter. 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.
Peddle was born in Northampton in 1971. [2] He has spina bifida. [3]
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 Uppsala in the 48 kg 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 168 kg in the -48 kg, 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]
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