Summer Paralympics 2016 / Powerlifting

Powerlifting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
information
venue	Rio de Janeiro
Competition venue	Riocentro
Nations	60
Athletes	181
date	8-14 September 2016
decisions	20th
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At the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro , medals were awarded in a total of 20 bench press competitions (also: powerlifting or weight pulling ). The decisions were made between September 8 and 14, 2016 in the Riocentro .

181 athletes took part in the men's competitions, each in ten weight classes, which were changed upwards for both sexes compared to the 2012 Summer Paralympics .

Medals

Women

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
41 kg	TUR Nazmiye Muratli PR	CHN Cui Zhe	IDN Ni Nengah Widiasih
45 kg	CHN Hu Dandan PR	NGR Latifat Tijani	GBR Zoe Newson
50 kg	UKR Lidiia Soloviova PR	EGY Rehab Ahmed	VNM Đặng Thị Linh Phương
55 kg	MEX Amalia Perez PR	NGR Esther Oyema	CHN Xiao Cuijuan
61 kg	NGR Lucy Ejike PR	EGY Fatma Omar	CHN Yang Yan
67 kg	CHN Tan Yujiao PR	KAZ Raushan Koishibayeva	EGY Amal Mahmoud
73 kg	NGR Ndidi Nwosu	FRA Souhad Ghazouani PR	EGY Amany Ali
79 kg	NGR Bose Omolayo PR	CHN Xu Lili	TPE Lin Tzu-Hui
86 kg	EGY Randa Mahmoud PR	JOR Tharwah Alhajaj	MEX Catalina Diaz Vilchis
+86 kg	NGR Josephine Orji PR	POL Marzena Zieba	NED Melaica Tuinfort

Men

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
49 kg	VNM Le van Cong PR	JOR Omar Qarada	HUN Nandor Tunkel
54 kg	NGR Roland Ezuruike PR	CHN Wang Jian	GRC Dimitrios Bakochristos
59 kg	EGY Osman Sherif PR	GBR Ali Jawad	CHN Yang Quanxi
65 kg	NGR Paul Kehinde PR	CHN Hu Peng	EGY Shaaban Ibrahim
72 kg	CHN Liu Lei	IRQ Rasool Mohsin PR	NGR Nnamdi Innocent
80 kg	IRI Majid Farzin PR	CHN Gu Xiaofei	UZB Akhror Bozorov
88 kg	UAE Mohammed Khalaf	BRA Evânio da Silva	MGL Sodnompiljee Enkhbayar
97 kg	EGY Mohammed Eldib PR	CHN Qi Dong	MEX Jose de Jesus Castillo Castillo
107 kg	GRC Pavlos Mamalos PR	EGY Mohamed Ahmed	IRI Ali Sadeghzadehsalmani
+107 kg	IRI Siamand Rahman	EGY Amr Mosaad	JOR Jamil Elshebli

Medal table (after all decisions)

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
01	Nigeria	6th	2	1	9
02	People's Republic of China	3	6th	3	12
03	Egypt	3	4th	3	10
04th	Iran	2	-	1	3
05	Mexico	1	-	2	3
06th	Greece	1	-	1	2
	Vietnam	1	-	1	2
08th	Turkey	1	-	-	1
	Ukraine	1	-	-	1
	United Arab Emirates	1	-	-	1
11	Jordan	-	2	1	3
12	United Kingdom	-	1	1	2
13	Brazil	-	1	-	1
	France	-	1	-	1
	Iraq	-	1	-	1
	Kazakhstan	-	1	-	1
17th	Poland	-	1	-	1
18th	Hungary	-	-	1	1
	Indonesia	-	-	1	1
	Mongolia	-	-	1	1
21st	China (Taiwan), Republic	-	-	1	1
	Netherlands	-	-	1	1
	Uzbekistan	-	-	1	1
Total		20th	20th	20th	60

Web links

• Paralympic Powerlifting Athletes - Athlete Bios & Results (Rio de Janeiro 2016 )