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Powerlifting At The 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women's 61 Kg
The women's 61 kg powerlifting event at the 2016 Summer Paralympics was contested on 11 September at Riocentro, Riocentro Pavilion 2. Lin Ya-hsuan, representing Chinese Taipei at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, Chinese Taipei competed in Paralympic Games, the Games for the fourth consecutive time. The best outcome out of three attempts counted as the final results. The athlete who placed first in each event was allowed a fourth attempt to break the Paralympic powerlifting, Paralympic or world record. Records There are twenty powerlifting events, corresponding to ten weight classes each for men and women. The weight categories were significantly adjusted after the Powerlifting at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, 2012 Games so most of the weights are new for 2016. As a result, no Paralympic record was available for this weight class prior to the competition. The existing world records were as follows. Results References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Powerlifting at the 2016 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riocentro
Riocentro is an exhibition and convention center located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Built in 1977, it is the largest exhibition center in Latin America. Notable events 1981 May Day attack On April 30, 1981, during a May Day music concert, Riocentro was the target of a terrorist attack by hardliner members of the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964–1985). Sergeant Guilherme Pereira do Rosário and then-Captain Wilson Dias Machado, nowadays a Colonel, were responsible for detonating two bombs at the venue. Around 9 p.m., however, one of the bombs exploded in the lap of Sergeant Rosário, killing him and seriously wounding Machado. A second bomb exploded a few miles away at a powerhouse responsible for providing electrical energy to Riocentro; it was thrown over the fence and exploded on the ground, and the electric power supply was never interrupted that evening. The government immediately blamed left-wing radicals for the attack. This theory had no support at the time of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paralympic Powerlifting
Paralympic powerlifting, also known as para powerlifting and para-lifting, is an adaptation of the sport of powerlifting for athletes with disabilities. The only discipline in Paralympic powerlifting is the bench press. The sport is governed by the International Paralympic Committee ( World Para Powerlifting) and is open to anyone with a minimum level of disability who can extend their arms within 20° of full extension during a lift. Powerlifting has been competed at the Summer Paralympics since 1984. History # 1964-1984: Wheelchair Powerlifting # 1984-2016: Paralympic Powerlifting / IPC Powerlifting # 2017-Ongoing: Para Powerlifting Best and Total Medals In 2022, WPPO initiated a new Total Lift Medal, the sum of all good lifts from the three attempts. Before 2022 medal awarded only in Best lifts. Since 2022 medal awarded in best lifts and total lifts. The World Para-powerlifting 2022 Asia Oceania Open Championships was held in Pyeongtaek, Korea from 15 – 20 June, 2022. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariana D'Andrea
Mariana D'Andrea (born 12 February 1998) is a Brazilian Paralympic powerlifter. She won the gold medal in the women's 73kg event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan. She is the first competitor representing Brazil to win a gold medal in powerlifting at the Paralympics. A few months later, she won the silver medal in her event at the 2021 World Para Powerlifting Championships held in Tbilisi, Georgia. Career D'Andrea competed in the women's 61kg event at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She did not register a successful lift at this event. She also competed in the women's 61kg event at the 2017 World Para Powerlifting Championships held in Mexico City, Mexico without registering a successful lift. At the 2019 World Para Powerlifting Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, D'Andrea won the silver medal in the mixed team event. At the 2019 Parapan American Games held in Lima, Peru, she won the gold medal in the women's 61 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantell Stierman
Chantelle can refer to: People * Chantelle Anderson (born 1981), American basketball player * Chantelle Barry (born 1980), Australian singer and actress * Chantelle Eberle (born 1981) Canadian curler * Chantelle Fiddy, British journalist * Chantelle Handy (born 1987), British basketball player * Chantelle Houghton (born 1983), English model and non-celebrity winner of ''Celebrity Big Brother 4'' in 2006 * Chantelle Kerry (born 1996), Australian figure skater * Chantelle Newbery (born 1977), Australian diver, 2004 Olympic champion * Chantelle Nickson-Clark (), American politician * Chantelle Paige (1988) American singer-songwriter and actress Places * Chantelle, Allier, a commune of the Allier département in France * Canton of Chantelle, an administrative division in central France * Chantelle, Pretoria, South Africa, a suburb of Pretoria Other uses * Chantelle Atkins, a character in the soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Chantelle (band) Chantelle was a popular all-female M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetyana Shyrokolava
Tetiana or Tetyana ( ) is the Ukrainian variation on the female Slavic name Tatiana. Sportspeople Athletics *Tetyana Bonenko (born 1976), Ukrainian sprinter *Tetyana Dorovskikh (born 1961), retired middle distance runner *Tetyana Filonyuk (born 1984), Ukrainian long-distance runner *Tetyana Hamera-Shmyrko (born 1983), Ukrainian long-distance runner *Tetyana Hladyr (born 1975), Ukrainian long-distance runner *Tetyana Holovchenko (born 1980), Ukrainian middle- and long-distance runner *Tetyana Kryvobok (born 1972), Ukrainian middle distance runner *Tetyana Lyakhovych (born 1979), Ukrainian javelin thrower *Tetiana Petlyuk (born 1982), Ukrainian middle-distance runner *Tetyana Skachko (born 1954), Soviet-Ukrainian long-jumper *Tetyana Tereshchuk-Antipova (born 1969), Ukrainian 400 m hurdler *Tetyana Tkalich (born 1975), Ukrainian sprinter *Tetyana Yakybchuk (born 1968), Ukrainian Paralympic thrower Other sports *Tetyana Antypenko (born 1981), Ukrainian cross-country skier *Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the List of North American cities by population, fourth-most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. As of 2024, the census metropolitan area had an estimated population of 7,106,379. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multiculturalism, multicultural and cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amalia Perez
Amalia may refer to: People *Amalia (given name), feminine given name (includes a list of people so named) *Princess Amalia (other), several princesses with this name Films and television series * ''Amalia'' (1914 film), the first full-length Argentine film * ''Amalia'' (1936 film), an Argentine remake of the 1914 movie * ''Amália'' (film), a 2008 Portuguese film biography of singer Amália Rodrigues *''Amalia'', a South African television series *Amalia Sheran Sharm, one of the main protagonists in the animated television series ''Wakfu'' Places *Amalia, New Mexico, US *Amalia, North West, South Africa Other uses * ''Amalia'' (novel), an Argentine novel written by José Mármol * "Amalia" (Schubert), D 195, Op. 173 No. 1, song by Franz Schubert, based on a text by Schiller *''Amalia'' (steamship), a general cargo steamship built by J&G Thomson for the Papayanni Brothers in 1861 * 284 Amalia, a large main belt asteroid *''Laelia'', a genus of orchids, formerl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Paralympic Committee
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC; ) is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and functions as the international federation for nine sports. Founded on 22 September 1989 in Düsseldorf, then part of West Germany, its mission is to "enable Paralympic athletes to achieve sporting excellence and inspire and excite the world". Furthermore, the IPC aims to promote the Paralympic values and to create sport opportunities for all persons with a disability, from beginner to elite level. The IPC has a democratic constitution and structure and is composed of representatives from 183 National Paralympic Committees (NPCs), four international organizations of sport for the disabled (IOSDs) and five regional organizations. The IPC's headquarters is located in Bonn, Germany. Overview On the basis of being able to organize the Paralympic Games more efficiently and to give the Paral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Powerlifting At The 2012 Summer Paralympics
Powerlifting at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was held at ExCeL London from 30 August to 5 September, with a maximum of 200 athletes (120 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. Events There were twenty powerlifting events, corresponding to ten weight classes each for men and women. Participating nations There were 114 male and 80 female competitors. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Medal summary Medal table Women's events Men's events References {{Paralympic Games Powerlifting Events at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Paralympics 2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paralympic Games
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disability, disabilities. There are Winter Paralympic Games, Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, have been held shortly after the corresponding Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The Paralympics began as a small gathering of British World War II veterans in Stoke Mandeville Games, 1948. The 1960 Summer Paralympics, 1960 Games in Rome drew 400 athletes with disabilities from 23 countries, as proposed by doctor Antonio Maglio. Currently it is one of the largest international sporting events: the 2020 Summer Paralympics featuring 4,520 athletes from 163 National Paralympic Committees. Paralympians strive for equal treatment with non-disabled Olympic athletes, but there is a large funding gap between Olympic and Paralympic athletes. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Ejike
Lucy Ogechukwu Ejike (born 16 October 1977) is a Nigerian Paralympic powerlifter. She has represented her country at six consecutive Paralympic Games from 2000 in Sydney through to 2021 in Tokyo. She has won medals at each, three gold, two silver and one bronze. She won a further silver medal at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth games women's lightweight category of the Para Powerlifting event behind compatriot Esther Oyema. Personal history Ejike was born in Enugu, Nigeria, in 1977. Ejike uses a wheelchair due to polio Ejike is married and she has two sons. She lives in the state of Enugu where she works as a sports administrator. Powerlifting career Ejike began training as a powerlifter shortly before the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia. At the Sydney Games she competed in the 44 kg weight class taking the silver medal with a lift of 102.5 kg, behind Fatma Omar of Egypt. Four years later at the Athens Games, while competing at the same weight class, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
