Raushan Koishibayeva (, born 7 March 1966) is a Kazakhstani Paralympic powerlifter. She won a silver medal in the 67 kg category at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, aged 50.

Personal life

Koishibayeva is married and has three children. Both of her legs were amputated in 1990 due to an injury. She took up

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 ...

in 2010.

References

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