Powerlifting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

See also: Weightlifting at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Powerlifting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics was held at Riocentro from September, with a maximum of 180 athletes (100 men and 80 women), competing in 20 events. According to the classification rules of the International Federation for Powerlifting athletes which cannot participate in weightlifting events because of a physical impairment affecting their legs or hips are deemed eligible to compete in powerlifting events at the Paralympics.

Powerlifting at the XV Paralympic Games
Venue	Riocentro
Dates	8–14 September 2016
Competitors	180 (100 male, 80 female)
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Events

There are twenty powerlifting events, corresponding to ten weight classes each for men and women. The weight categories were significantly adjusted after the 2012 Games so most of the weights are new for 2016.

Powerlifting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics - Weight Divisions
Men		Women
49 kg	80 kg	41 kg	67 kg
54 kg	88 kg	45 kg	73 kg
59 kg	97 kg	50 kg	79 kg
65 kg	107 kg	55 kg	86 kg
72 kg	+107 kg	61 kg	+86 kg

Qualification

Further information: Powerlifting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Qualification

There were 120 male and 80 female competitors. The bulk of the quota places will be decided by reference to the IPC Powerlifting Rankings on 29 February 2016. Subject to a quota limit of one place per National Paralympic Committee, the top 8 ranked male, and top 6 ranked female athletes in each weight division will gain a quota place for their NPC. If they are the only lifter from their NPC in that list, that lifter shall gain the place; if an NPC has two or more lifters in quota place ranking position, the choice of lifter will be for the NPC from that number.^[1]

Two further quota places per event will be awarded by the Bipartite Commission.^[1]

The following is a summary of the qualification places at the 2016 Summer Paralympic Powerlifting event.

NPC	Men										Women										Total
	49 Kg	54 Kg	59 Kg	65 Kg	72 Kg	80 Kg	88 Kg	97 Kg	107 Kg	+107 Kg	41 Kg	45 Kg	50 Kg	55 Kg	61 Kg	67 Kg	73 Kg	79 Kg	86 Kg	+86 Kg
Algeria				X																	1
Azerbaijan				X					X	X											3
Brazil		X					X														2
Chile			X																		1
China		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X		16
Chinese Taipei															X			X			2
Colombia						X															1
Ivory Coast		X																			1
Egypt			X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X			X	X	X	X	X	16
France	X																X				2
Great Britain			X	X								X		X							4
Greece		X	X	X					X	X											5
Hungary	X																				1
India	X																				1
Indonesia											X										1
Iran				X			X	X	X	X											5
Iraq					X			X													2
Jordan	X				X		X		X	X									X		6
Kazakhstan																X					1
Kyrgyzstan		X							X												2
Malaysia								X	X												2
Mexico						X		X					X	X				X	X		6
Mongolia							X														1
Netherlands																				X	1
Nigeria	X	X	X		X	X	X	X			X	X		X	X		X	X	X	X	15
Poland			X	X	X	X						X			X					X	7
Russia	X		X		X					X				X	X	X	X	X	X	X	11
South Africa															X						1
South Korea	X									X						X				X	4
Spain													X								1
Turkey						X					X					X					3
Turkmenistan					X												X				2
Ukraine		X						X			X	X	X	X	X		X				8
United Arab Emirates							X			X											2
Uzbekistan						X															1
Vietnam	X	X											X								3
Total NPCs	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	6	6	6	6	7	6	6	6	6	6	141

Schedule

OC

Opening ceremony

●

Event finals

CC

Closing ceremony

September 2016	7 Wed	8 Thu	9 Fri	10 Sat	11 Sun	12 Mon	13 Tue	14 Wed	15 Thu	16 Fri	17 Sat	18 Sun		Gold medals
Powerlifting	OC	• •	• • •	• • •	• • •	• • •	• • •	• • •					CC	20

Schedule at the Paralympic Games 2016 - Powerlifting*[2]
Date	Medal events	Date	Medal events
8 September	Men's 49 kg Women's 41 kg	12 September	Men's 80 kg Women's 73 kg Women's 79 kg
9 September	Men's 54 kg Men's 59 kg Women's 45 kg	13 September	Men's 88 kg Men's 97 kg Women's 86 kg
10 September	Men's 65 kg Women's 50 kg Women's 55 kg	14 September	Men's 107 kg Men's +107 kg Women's +86 kg
11 September	Men's 72 kg Women's 61 kg Women's 67 kg

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Nigeria (NGR)	6	2	1	9
2	China (CHN)	3	6	3	12
3	Egypt (EGY)	3	4	3	10
4	Iran (IRI)	2	0	1	3
5	Mexico (MEX)	1	0	2	3
6	Greece (GRE)	1	0	1	2
	Vietnam (VIE)	1	0	1	2
8	Turkey (TUR)	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	1	0	0	1
11	Jordan (JOR)	0	2	1	3
12	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	1	2
13	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Iraq (IRQ)	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	1	0	1
	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
18	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	1	1
	Mongolia (MGL)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		20	20	20	60

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
49 kg details	Lê Văn Công  Vietnam	Omar Qarada  Jordan	Nándor Tunkel  Hungary
54 kg details	Roland Ezuruike  Nigeria	Wang Jian  China	Dimitrios Bakochristos  Greece
59 kg details	Sherif Othman  Egypt	Ali Jawad  Great Britain	Yang Quanxi  China
65 kg details	Paul Kehinde  Nigeria	Hu Peng  China	Shaaban Ibrahim  Egypt
72 kg details	Liu Lei  China	Rasool Mohsin  Iraq	Nnamdi Innocent  Nigeria
80 kg details	Majid Farzin  Iran	Gu Xiaofei  China	Akhror Bozorov  Uzbekistan
88 kg details	Mohammed Khamis Khalaf  United Arab Emirates	Evânio da Silva  Brazil	Sodnompiljee Enkhbayar  Mongolia
97 kg details	Mohamed Eldib  Egypt	Qi Dong  China	Jose de Jesus Castillo Castillo  Mexico
107 kg details	Pavlos Mamalos  Greece	Mohamed Ahmed  Egypt	Ali Sadeghzadeh  Iran
+107 kg details	Siamand Rahman  Iran	Amr Mosaad  Egypt	Jamil Elshebli  Jordan

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
41 kg details	Nazmiye Muratlı  Turkey	Cui Zhe  China	Ni Nengah Widiasih  Indonesia
45 kg details	Hu Dandan  China	Latifat Tijani  Nigeria	Zoe Newson  Great Britain
50 kg details	Lidiia Soloviova  Ukraine	Rehab Ahmed  Egypt	Đặng Thị Linh Phượng  Vietnam
55 kg details	Amalia Pérez  Mexico	Esther Oyema  Nigeria	Xiao Cuijuan  China
61 kg details	Lucy Ejike  Nigeria	Fatma Omar  Egypt	Yang Yan  China
67 kg details	Tan Yujiao  China	Raushan Koishibayeva  Kazakhstan	Amal Mahmoud  Egypt
73 kg details	Ndidi Nwosu  Nigeria	Souhad Ghazouani  France	Amany Ali  Egypt
79 kg details	Bose Omolayo  Nigeria	Xu Lili  China	Lin Tzu-hui  Chinese Taipei
86 kg details	Randa Mahmoud  Egypt	Tharwat Alhajjaj  Jordan	Catalina Diaz Vilchis  Mexico
+86 kg details	Josephine Orji  Nigeria	Marzena Zięba  Poland	Melaica Tuinfort  Netherlands