Sumeet Sharma
Vancouver-based gold medal powerlifting champion Sumeet Sharma has been spending some time out of the gym during the COVID-19 pandemic to pass on his appreciation for frontline workers.
Sharma was supposed to go to the Czech Republic for a powerlifting championship when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The competition was cancelled leaving Sharma with extra funds, which he decided to use to purchase food and supplies for healthcare workers, teachers and other frontline workers.
Sumeet Sharma
“We had a lot of family friends working in the healthcare system, and just hearing their stories of what healthcare workers had to go through during these tough times really touched myself, my parents, my wife… We really wanted to put our heads together and see what we could do as a family,” Sharma told Daily Hive in an interview.