Powerlifting at the 1996 Summer Paralympics

Powerlifting at the X Paralympic Games
Paralympic Powerlifting
Competitors	141 from 56 nations

Powerlifting at the 1996 Summer Paralympics consisted of ten men's events.

Medal table

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	2	1	1	4
	South Korea (KOR)	2	1	1	4
3	Poland (POL)	2	1	0	3
4	Egypt (EGY)	1	4	1	6
5	Nigeria (NGR)	1	1	2	4
6	United States (USA)	1	0	1	2
7	Germany (GER)	1	0	0	1
8	Iran (IRI)	0	1	2	3
9	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
10	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		10	10	10	30

Participating nations

•  Armenia (1)
•  Australia (3)
•  Azerbaijan (1)
•  Bahrain (2)
•  Belarus (1)
•  Belgium (2)
•  Brazil (1)
•  Bulgaria (1)
•  Burkina Faso (1)
•  Canada (2)
•  Chile (1)
•  China (5)
•  Chinese Taipei (1)
•  Egypt (9)
•  Estonia (1)
•  Finland (4)
•  France (7)
•  Germany (3)
•  Great Britain (4)
•  Hungary (1)
•  India (1)
•  Indonesia (1)
•  Iran (6)
•  Israel (2)
•  Japan (1)
•  Jordan (1)
•  Kazakhstan (1)
•  Kuwait (2)
•  Kyrgyzstan (2)
•  Libya (4)
•  Malaysia (2)
•  Mexico (2)
•  Moldova (1)
•  Morocco (2)
•  Netherlands (1)
•  Nigeria (5)
•  Norway (2)
•  Oman (1)
•  Peru (1)
•  Poland (10)
•  Qatar (1)
•  Romania (1)
•  Russia (4)
•  Saudi Arabia (2)
•  Slovakia (1)
•  South Korea (7)
•  Spain (2)
•  Sweden (3)
•  Switzerland (1)
•  Syria (2)
•  Thailand (1)
•  Uganda (1)
•  Ukraine (3)
•  United Arab Emirates (1)
•  United States (10)
•  Venezuela (2)

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 48 kg	Jung Yong Kwak  South Korea	Abraham Obaretin  Nigeria	Anthony Peddle  Great Britain
Men's 52 kg	Keum Jong Jung  South Korea	Jian Wang  China	Johnson Sulola  Nigeria
Men's 56 kg	Gomma G. Ahmed  Egypt	Fereydoun Karimipour  Iran	Sang Jin Yoon  South Korea
Men's 60 kg	Monday Emoghavwe  Nigeria	Metwaly Mathna  Egypt	Allahbakhsh Akbari  Iran
Men's 67.5 kg	Hai Dong Zhang  China	Emadeldin Mohamed  Egypt	Zeinal Siavoshani  Iran
Men's 75 kg	Ryszard Fornalczyk  Poland	Jong Park  South Korea	Abd Elmonem Farag  Egypt
Men's 82.5 kg	Bernd Vogel  Germany	Mostafa Hamed  Egypt	Jiahua Zhou  China
Men's 90 kg	Ryszard Tomaszewski  Poland	Brian McNicholl  Australia	Frank Gyland  Norway
Men's 100 kg	Zhiqiang Luo  China	Sherif Bakr  Egypt	Patrick Akutaekwe  Nigeria
Men's +100 kg	Kim Brownfield  United States	Leszek Hallmann  Poland	Pernell Cooper  United States

See also

• Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics

References

1. "Paralympic Results & Historical Records".

• Powerlifting at the 1996 Summer Paralympics (Atlanta) from the International Paralympic Committee (archived)