How a tailor’s son, vegetable loader Lovepreet Singh bagged silver
At 4 a.m., while most teenagers were asleep, Lovepreet Singh was already at the vegetable market in Amritsar. The son of a tailor from Bal Sachander village in Punjab, Lovepreet spent his mornings unloading sacks and helping wholesale vendors before heading home to prepare for school and training. The ₹300 he earned each day wasn’t pocket money. It paid for his diet, equipment, and the dream of becoming a weightlifter. On Thursday night in Glasgow, that dream reached another milestone. The Indian heavyweight clinched the silver medal in the men’s +110kg event at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, lifting 176kg in the snatch and 212kg in the clean and jerk for a national record total of 388kg. The effort also bettered the bronze medal he won in Birmingham four years ago. “This medal has boosted my confidence for the Asian Games. I have been preparing for this moment for the last two to two-and-a-half years, and I am feeling great,” Lovepreet said after the win. The Punjab lifter, who had claimed bronze at the previous Commonwealth …
