Power lifter Micky Yule became Britain’s first gold medal winner at which games last week?
Micky Yule Men's +72 kg division. He finished fourth. In the build-up to the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio, Yule started to find competition success. At the 2015 European Championships in Eger, he took the gold medal in the men's 80kg category. He followed this with another gold, this time at the 2016 Invictus Games, lifting a personal best of 190 kg to dominate the competition. His results saw him named as part of the Great Britain team that would compete in Rio that Summer. Micky Yule Michael "Micky" Yule (born 24 December 1978) is a British Paralympic powerlifter competing in the
Micky Yule Micky Yule Michael "Micky" Yule (born 24 December 1978) is a British Paralympic powerlifter competing in the -80 kg class. Yule was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1978. He grew up in wallyford, Midlothian. Yule joined the British Army at the age of 17 and in 2007 he was working as a diving instructor at the Defence Diving School on Horsea Island, Port Solent, for three years before being posted to Afghanistan. In Afghanistan he was a staff sergeant in the Royal Engineers and was posted to Helmand province. In March 2010, whilst on patrol, Yule stood on an IED.