2025 World Para Powerlifting Championships

11th World Para Powerlifting Championships

Host city	Cairo
Country	Egypt
Sport	Paralympic powerlifting
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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   China	186 kg
59 kg [4]	Mohamed Elmenyawy   Egypt	210 kg	Mustafa Radhi   Iraq	203 kg	Qi Yongkai   China	200 kg
65 kg [5]	Zhou Shiwei   China	205 kg	Mohsen Bakhtiar   Iran	201 kg	Hocine Bettir   Algeria	192 kg
72 kg [6]	Bonnie Bunyau Gustin   Malaysia	230 kg	Zhang Pingkang   China	222 kg	Mark Swan   Great Britain	217 kg
80 kg [7]	Gu Xiaofei   China	223 kg	Bekzod Jamilov   Uzbekistan	222 kg	Rasool Mohsin   Iraq	221 kg
88 kg [8]	Yan Panpan   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   China	117 kg	Kerly Lascano   Ecuador	110 kg	Lara Aparecida de Lima   Brazil	107 kg
45 kg [13]	Guo Lingling   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   China	147 kg	Onyinyechi Mark   Nigeria	137 kg	Fatma Elyan   Egypt	136 kg
73 kg [18]	Tan Yujiao   China	146 kg	Mariana D'Andrea   Brazil	141 kg	Chiamaka Ani   Nigeria	140 kg
79 kg [19]	Rita Ferdinand   Nigeria	153 kg	Han Miaoyu   China	143 kg	Asma Issa   Jordan	136 kg
86 kg [20]	Zheng Feifei   China	153 kg	Tayana Medeiros   Brazil	147 kg	Blessing Ibeh   Nigeria	136 kg
+86 kg [21]	Folashade Oluwafemiayo   Nigeria	168 kg	Zhu Wenjun   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   China	464 kg
54 kg [23]	David Degtyarev   Kazakhstan	567 kg	Herbert Aceituno   El Salvador	564 kg	Yang Jinglang   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   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   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   China	342 kg	Kerly Lascano   Ecuador	318 kg	Anifat Ganiyu   Nigeria	297 kg
45 kg [33]	Guo Lingling   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   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   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	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	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.
38. "Women's Up to 73 kg – TOTAL" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 2025-10-13.
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41. "Women's Over 86 kg – TOTAL" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 2025-10-16.