Amal Mahmoud Osman (born 21 October 1978), also known as Amal Mahmoud Hanafy, is an

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who competes on behalf of her country. She has won medals at three successive

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Career

Mahmoud competed in her first

at the 2008 Games in

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, China. She won the silver medal in the

powerlifting Powerlifting is a competitive strength athletics, strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: Squat (exercise), squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athle ...

category behind China's

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. Jianxin broke the World and Paralympic records twice in successive lifts to win the gold medal. At the

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in London, England, Mahmoud competed once again in the same category, this time winning the bronze medal following a lift of .

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won gold for Mexico, with a new Paralympic record of . At the

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, Brazil, Mahmoud won the bronze medal in the with a lift of . China's Yujiao Tan secured the gold medal, while

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won the silver for

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. Following the games, Mahmoud was one of the medal winners who was invited to meet

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mahmoud Osman, Amal Living people Egyptian powerlifters Powerlifters at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Powerlifters at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Powerlifters at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Paralympic silver medalists for Egypt Paralympic bronze medalists for Egypt African Games bronze medalists for Egypt African Games bronze medalists in weightlifting Weightlifters at the 2015 African Games Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics 1978 births Paralympic medalists in powerlifting Paralympic powerlifters for Egypt Powerlifters at the 2020 Summer Paralympics