Saksham Yadav

Saksham Yadav was an Indian powerlifter and former powerlifting world champion, born on 7 October 1993 in Nangloi, outer Delhi, into a middle-class family. After school he enrolled in an engineering course but left it unfinished because bodybuilding and powerlifting interested him more. He went on to win numerous state and national powerlifting championships and a gold medal at the junior powerlifting world championship in Europe, and at the 2017 Powerlifting World Championships held in Moscow he claimed a world championship and the best sportsperson trophy. He also published training videos on powerlifting, the deadlift and the bench press that were watched by thousands. He died on 7 January 2018, aged 24, of injuries from a road accident in fog at the Sindhu border on the Delhi-Panipat highway while travelling with other powerlifters to a training session.