Paramjit Sharma
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| Nationality | Indian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1957 or 1958 (age 68–69) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Paramjit Sharma is an Indian weightlifter. He won three gold medals in the 1990 Commonwealth Games in the lightweight category.[1][2] He later became a weightlifting coach, and was the coach of the multiple Commonwealth Games medalist Harjinder Kaur.[3] He was awarded the Arjuna Award, India's second highest sporting honour, by the Government of India in 1997.[4]
References
- ↑ "Commonwealth Games 1990". Indian Olympic Association. Archived from the original on 19 May 2026. Retrieved 1 June 2026.
- ↑ "Commonwealth Games: Indian weight-lifters bag 27 medals". India Today. 15 December 1990. Retrieved 1 June 2026.
- ↑ "CWG silver translates for some more farmland for lifter Harjinder Kaur's family". The Indian Express. 29 July 2026. Retrieved 1 August 2026.
- ↑ "Arjuna awardees" (PDF). Indian Weightlifting Federation. March 2025. Retrieved 1 June 2026.
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Categories:
- 1964 births
- Living people
- Indian male weightlifters
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for India
- Weightlifters at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century Indian people
- 21st-century Indian people
- Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in weightlifting
- Recipients of the Arjuna Award
- Weightlifters at the 1994 Commonwealth Games