Summer Paralympics 2012 / Powerlifting

At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London , medals were awarded in a total of 20 bench press competitions (also: powerlifting or weight pulling ). The decisions were made between August 30th and September 5th 2012 in the Exhibition Center London .

120 athletes in ten weight classes from 48 kg to over 100 kg took part in the men's competitions. 80 athletes in ten weight classes from 40 kg to over 82 kg took part in the women's competitions. The most successful nation was Nigeria with six gold, five silver and one bronze medal.

Medals

Exhibition Center London

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Nigeria	6th	5	1	12
2	Egypt	4th	3	4th	11
3	Iran	4th	1	1	6th
4th	People's Republic of China	3	6th	6th	15th
5	Turkey	1	1	1	3
6th	Mexico	1	0	1	2
7th	France	1	0	0	1
8th	Russia	0	3	1	4th
9	Iraq	0	1	0	1
10	United Kingdom	0	0	1	1
10	Greece	0	0	1	1
10	South Korea	0	0	1	1
10	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
10	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Total		20th	20th	20th	60

Women

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
40 kg	Nazmiye Muslu	Cui Zhe	Zoe Newson
44 kg	Ivory Nwokorie	Çiğdem Dede	Lidiia Soloviova
48 kg	Esther Oyema	Olesya Lafina	Shi Shanshan
52 kg	Joy Onaolapo	Tamara Podpalnaya	Xiao Cuijuan
56 kg	Fatma Omar	Lucy Ejike	Özlem Becerikli
60 kg	Amalia Pérez	Yang Yan	Amal Mahmoud
67.5 kg	Souhad Ghazouani	Tan Yujiao	Victoria Nneji
75 kg	Fu Taoying	Folashade Oluwafemiayo	Lin Tzu-hui
82.5 kg	Loveline Obiji	Randa Mahmoud	Xu Yanmei
+82.5 kg	Grace Anozie	Heba Ahmed	Perla Bárcenas

Men

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
48 kg	Yakubu Adesokan	Vladimir Balynetc	Taha Abdelmagid
52 kg	Feng Qi	Ikechukwu Obichukwu	Vladimir Krivulya
56 kg	Sherif Othman	Anthony Ulonnam	Wang Jian
60 kg	Nader Moradi	Ifeanyi Nnajiofor	Yang Quanxi
67.5 kg	Liu Lei	Rouhollah Rostami	Shaaban Ibrahim
75 kg	Ali Hosseini	Mohamed Elelfat	Hu Peng
82.5 kg	Majid Farzin	Gu Xiaofei	Metwaly Mathana
90 kg	Hany Abdelhady	Cai Huichao	Pavlos Mamalos
100 kg	Mohamed Eldib	Qi Dong	Ali Sadeghzadeh
+100 kg	Siamand Rahman	Faris Al-Ajeeli	Chun Keun-Bae

Individual evidence

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Web links

Paralympic Powerlifting Athletes - Athlete Bios & Results | London 2012