2025 World Para Powerlifting Championships

11th World Para Powerlifting Championships

Host city	Cairo
Country	Egypt
Sport	Paralympic powerlifting

The 2025 World Para Powerlifting Championships was a powerlifting competition for athletes with a disability. It was held in Cairo, Egypt from 10 to 18 October 2025.^[1]

Medalists

Seniors Best Lift

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
49 kg[2]	Abdullah Kayapınar  Turkey	179 kg	Omar Qarada  Jordan	178 kg	Marco de Oliveira Cruz  Brazil	177 kg
54 kg[3]	David Degtyarev  Kazakhstan	191 kg	Herbert Aceituno  El Salvador	190 kg	Yang Jinglang ‹See TfM› China	186 kg
59 kg[4]	Mohamed Elmenyawy  Egypt	210 kg	Mustafa Radhi  Iraq	203 kg	Qi Yongkai ‹See TfM› China	200 kg
65 kg[5]	Zhou Shiwei ‹See TfM› China	205 kg	Mohsen Bakhtiar  Iran	201 kg	Hocine Bettir  Algeria	192 kg
72 kg[6]	Bonnie Bunyau Gustin  Malaysia	230 kg	Zhang Pingkang ‹See TfM› China	222 kg	Mark Swan  Great Britain	217 kg
80 kg[7]	Gu Xiaofei ‹See TfM› China	223 kg	Bekzod Jamilov  Uzbekistan	222 kg	Rasool Mohsin  Iraq	221 kg
88 kg[8]	Yan Panpan ‹See TfM› China	244 kg	Rouhollah Rostami  Iran	243 kg	Mohamed Elelfat  Egypt	227 kg
97 kg[9]	Abdelkareem Khattab  Jordan	240 kg	Hany Abdelhady  Egypt	229 kg	Aliasghar Abareghi  Iran	227 kg
107 kg[10]	Aliakbar Gharibshahi  Iran	255 kg	Enkhbayaryn Sodnompiljee  Mongolia	243 kg	Bobby Body  United States	237 kg
+107 kg[11]	Ahmad Aminzadeh  Iran	260 kg	Gustavo Melo de Souza  Brazil	251 kg	Akaki Jintcharadze  Georgia	250 kg

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
41 kg[12]	Cui Zhe ‹See TfM› China	117 kg	Kerly Lascano  Ecuador	110 kg	Lara Aparecida de Lima  Brazil	107 kg
45 kg[13]	Guo Lingling ‹See TfM› China	125 kg	Tolulope Ogundolie  Nigeria	112 kg	Nasiba Tashpulatova  Uzbekistan	111 kg
50 kg[14]	Clara Fuentes Monasterio  Venezuela	121 kg	Esther Nworgu  Nigeria	120 kg	Rukayat Ajiboye  Nigeria	116 kg
55 kg[15]	Esther Oyema  Nigeria	125 kg	Besra Duman  Turkey	121 kg	Tamara Podpalnaya  Russia	120 kg
61 kg[16]	Rehab Ahmed  Egypt	131 kg	Ifeoluwa Alake  Nigeria	128 kg	Franca Anigbogu  Nigeria	126 kg
67 kg[17]	Cui Jianjin ‹See TfM› China	147 kg	Onyinyechi Mark  Nigeria	137 kg	Fatma Elyan  Egypt	136 kg
73 kg[18]	Tan Yujiao ‹See TfM› China	146 kg	Mariana D'Andrea  Brazil	141 kg	Chiamaka Ani  Nigeria	140 kg
79 kg[19]	Rita Ferdinand  Nigeria	153 kg	Han Miaoyu ‹See TfM› China	143 kg	Asma Issa  Jordan	136 kg
86 kg[20]	Zheng Feifei ‹See TfM› China	153 kg	Tayana Medeiros  Brazil	147 kg	Blessing Ibeh  Nigeria	136 kg
+86 kg[21]	Folashade Oluwafemiayo  Nigeria	168 kg	Zhu Wenjun ‹See TfM› China	157 kg	Nihoo Rozbahani  Iran	152 kg

Seniors Total Lift

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
49 kg[22]	Marco de Oliveira Cruz  Brazil	515 kg	Vladimir Balynets  Russia	483 kg	Chen Liuxun ‹See TfM› China	464 kg
54 kg[23]	David Degtyarev  Kazakhstan	567 kg	Herbert Aceituno  El Salvador	564 kg	Yang Jinglang ‹See TfM› China	552 kg
59 kg[24]	Mohamed Elmenyawy  Egypt	621 kg	Juan Garrido Acevedo  Chile	547 kg	Paschalis Kouloumoglou  Greece	541 kg
65 kg[25]	Jorge Carinao  Chile	547 kg	Fouad Elsayed Mohamed  Egypt	530 kg	Marek Trykacz  Poland	501 kg
72 kg[26]	Bonnie Bunyau Gustin  Malaysia	672 kg	Amir Jafari  Iran	581 kg	Carlos Alberto Betancourt  Venezuela	528 kg
80 kg[27]	Gu Xiaofei ‹See TfM› China	660 kg	Bekzod Jamilov  Uzbekistan	656 kg	Mahmoud Attia  Egypt	597 kg
88 kg[28]	Mazhar Tammam El Sayed  Egypt	615 kg	Rakhmetzhan Khamayev  Kazakhstan	592 kg	Abdullah Al Kaabi  Iraq	591 kg
97 kg[29]	Hany Abdelhady  Egypt	676 kg	Hayder al-Akdah  Iraq	601 kg	Adilzhan Bautov  Kazakhstan	555 kg
107 kg[30]	Liu Jian ‹See TfM› China	675 kg	Elshan Huseynov  Moldova	594 kg	Aleksei Golovan  Russia	571 kg
+107 kg[31]	Gustavo Melo de Souza  Brazil	739 kg	Akaki Jintcharadze  Georgia	737 kg	Konstantin Matsnev  Russia	727 kg

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
41 kg[32]	Cui Zhe ‹See TfM› China	342 kg	Kerly Lascano  Ecuador	318 kg	Anifat Ganiyu  Nigeria	297 kg
45 kg[33]	Guo Lingling ‹See TfM› China	368 kg	Tolulope Ogundolie  Nigeria	330 kg	Nasiba Tashpulatova  Uzbekistan	325 kg
50 kg[34]	Fariza Tolzhan  Kazakhstan	285 kg	Oriana del Carmen Teran Velazquez  Venezuela	284 kg	Leidy Rodriguez  Canada	282 kg
55 kg[35]	Esther Oyema  Nigeria	368 kg	Besra Duman  Turkey	354 kg	Nawal Ramadan  Egypt	339 kg
61 kg[36]	Muslima Nuriddinova  Uzbekistan	353 kg	Aml Soliman  Egypt	308 kg	Mishelle Oyague  Ecuador	300 kg
67 kg[37]	Cui Jianjin ‹See TfM› China	432 kg	Kudratoy Toshpulatova  Uzbekistan	392 kg	Rukhshona Uktamova  Uzbekistan	363 kg
73 kg[38]	Raushan Koishibayeva  Kazakhstan	330 kg	Thamar Gisele Mengue  Cameroon	321 kg	Nyx Koradi Azuara Gutiérrez  Mexico	310 kg
79 kg[39]	Rita Ferdinand  Nigeria	443 kg	Han Miaoyu ‹See TfM› China	419 kg	Asma Issa  Jordan	393 kg
86 kg[40]	Marion Serrano  Chile	397 kg	Naglaa Elshahzy  Egypt	381 kg	Belén Sánchez Domínguez  Mexico	375 kg
+86 kg[41]	Folashade Oluwafemiayo  Nigeria	480 kg	Edilandia Araújo  Brazil	434 kg	Irina Sadovnikova  Russia	404 kg

Team events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	‹See TfM› China Yang Jinglang Qi Yongkai Zhang Pingkang	Cuba Pablo Ramírez Barrientos Jesús Cuevas Cisneros Enmanuel González Rodríguez	Iraq Muslim Al-Sudani Mustafa Radhi Rahsool Mohsin
Women's team	Brazil Mariana D'Andrea Lara Aparecida de Lima Tayana Medeiros	Uzbekistan Akidakhon Akhtamova Nasiba Tashpulatova Rukhshona Uktamova	Egypt Enas Elgebaly Abdelaal Safaa Hassan Fatma Elyan
Mixed team	‹See TfM› China Guo Lingling Yang Jinglang Gu Xiaofei	Uzbekistan Khusniddin Usmanov Muslima Nuriddinova Bekzod Jamilov	Egypt Rehab Ahmed Mohamed Elelfat Hany Abdelhady

Medal table

Seniors

  *   Host nation (Egypt)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	13	4	4	21
2	Nigeria (NGR)	6	5	5	16
3	Egypt (EGY)*	5	4	4	13
4	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	4	1	1	6
5	Brazil (BRA)	2	4	2	8
6	Iran (IRI)	2	3	2	7
7	Chile (CHI)	2	1	0	3
8	Malaysia (MAS)	2	0	0	2
9	Uzbekistan (UZB)	1	3	3	7
10	Turkey (TUR)	1	2	0	3
11	Jordan (JOR)	1	1	2	4
12	Venezuela (VEN)	1	1	1	3
13	Iraq (IRQ)	0	2	2	4
14	Ecuador (ECU)	0	2	1	3
15	El Salvador (ESA)	0	2	0	2
16	Russia (RUS)	0	1	5	6
17	Georgia (GEO)	0	1	1	2
18	Cameroon (CMR)	0	1	0	1
	Moldova (MDA)	0	1	0	1
	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	0	1
21	Mexico (MEX)	0	0	2	2
22	Algeria (ALG)	0	0	1	1
	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 entries)		40	40	41	121

Team events

  *   Host nation (Egypt)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	2	0	0	2
2	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	0	1
3	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	2	0	2
4	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	0	1
5	Egypt (EGY)*	0	0	2	2
6	Iraq (IRQ)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		3	3	3	9

References

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36. "Women's Up to 61 kg – TOTAL" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 2025-10-15.
37. "Women's Up to 67 kg – TOTAL" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 2025-10-15.
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