Paralympic powerlifters are breaking world records and lifting three times their bodyweight at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris. Today we will discuss about Powerlifting paralympics 2024 schedule & results: Kazakhstan’s David Degtyarev won the gold medal,54-kilogram weight category.
Powerlifting paralympics 2024 schedule & results: Kazakhstan’s David Degtyarev won the gold medal,54-kilogram weight category
Powerlifting at the 2024 Paris Paralympics The tremendous athleticism of Paralympic stars is stunning spectators as competitors from around the world overcome obstacles and break world records.
Venezuela’s Clara Fuentes won the gold medal in the women’s up to 50 kg category on Thursday with an astonishing lift of 124 kg. A day earlier, China’s Guo Lingling twice broke the world record set in February by lifting 122kg and 123kg – more than three times her body weight – to win her first women’s Paralympic gold medal by 45kg.
“In these Paralympics, I am more mature. My movement is also strong and precise. Now I will take a break and then probably start preparing for Los Angeles.
For the men, Mohamed Elmenyawi won Egypt’s first gold medal at the 2024 Paralympics with a lift of 201 kg in the men’s up to 59 kg category.
Elmenyawi is participating in the Paralympic Games for the first time and has reportedly lifted three times his body weight. He finished third in the 2023 World Championships.
On Wednesday, Kazakhstan’s David Degtyarev defended his gold medal by defeating challengers from Cuba and China in the men’s up to 54 kg category, which dominates the powerlifting Paralympic schedule and tops the medal tally.
After the competition Degtyarev said: “I will not celebrate. I will go back (to the Paralympic village) to sleep.
Kazakhstan’s David Degtyarev won the gold medal
Earlier in the day, during the first session, Alex Adelaide could do no better than finishing sixth with his starting weight of 160 kg. Subsequently, the Guadeloupean failed her second attempt at 165 kg, as a slight delay in her push prevented the judges from validating the lift. For his final attempt, he took a gamble with a lift of 172 kg, which, if successful, would have put him on the makeshift podium. However, he failed again, allowing his competitors to advance.
Having previously competed at the Rio Games in Para athletics, where she won a bronze medal in the 4×400 meters relay, Adelaide had to be satisfied with this result in her first appearance in Para powerlifting. He will seek salvation in Los Angeles in 2028.
The final victory was contested between Jordan’s Omar Sami Hamadeh Qarada, Turkey’s Abdullah Kaypınar and Vietnam’s Le Van Cong. The latter faltered first, failing at 176 and then 181 kg. In contrast, his two rivals crossed the 180 kg mark. In the end, Omar Sami Hamadeh Qarada won with a lift of 181 kg. A few minutes later, he attempted to break the world record (183.5 kg) by lifting 184 kg but failed.
In the women’s under 41 kg category, Jen Cui achieved a double victory by winning the Paralympic title and breaking the Paralympic record. However, she missed breaking the world record, which remains at 123 kg. After winning silver in 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2021, the 37-year-old Chinese athlete finally broke the curse with this first gold medal. By lifting 119 kg, she defeated Nigeria’s Esther Nworgu (118 kg) and Brazil’s Lara Aparecida de Lima (109 kg).
In the other women’s category, in under 45 kg, the world record fell, beaten by China’s Lingling Guo, the Paralympic under 41 kg title holder. With a bar of 123 kg, she wiped the previous Paralympic and world records off the books. Behind her, Zoë Newson (Great Britain) and Nazmiye.
54-kilogram weight category
A Paralympic “hero” getting a 10-metre-tall statue in his honor at the entrance of his hometown? Although it would be difficult to imagine such a tribute in France, such is the case in Iran. Since 2020, a giant statue of double Paralympic powerlifting champion Siamand Rahman – on the bench press, to be exact – has been erected in Oshnavieh, a town in the northwest of the country.
He died of a heart attack at the age of 31 on March 1, 2020 Rahman, who won gold medals at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics, remains an icon in the Islamic Republic. “The World’s Strongest Paralympic Athlete,” as he was dubbed, is, to date, the only Paralympian to lift more than 300 kg.
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Alexis Queiro said, “In Iran, where there is a cult of the strong, the fame of Siamand Rahman, who lost the use of his legs due to polio, can be compared to that of Teddy Riner in France, and it lives on. ” , who is in charge of bench press performance in the French Parasport Federation (FFH).
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The Islamic Republic is not the only country where powerlifting is a major parasport discipline.
Many countries, especially considering their participation in the Paralympic Games, “decided to concentrate their efforts on some individual disciplines, such as the bench press, where they are almost certain to win a medal,” said French coach Mehdi. Orizat said. Paralympic powerlifting team.
For example, for Egypt.
