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Born | 7 August 1982 |
Sport | |
Country | France |
Sport | Paralympic powerlifting |
Disability | Paraplegia |
Souhad Ghazouani (born 7 August 1982) is a French powerlifter born with paraplegia. She started lifting weights at age six. At the 2004 Summer Paralympics she won silver and in that same year was made a Knight of the National Order of Merit. At the 2008 Summer Paralympics she won a bronze. [1] At the 2012 Summer Paralympics she won gold at the 67.5 kg. She also has a world record in her discipline. [2] She is also a wheelchair racer. [3]
She won the bronze medal in the women's 73 kg event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan. [4]
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Maria de Lourdes Mazzoleni Portela is a Brazilian middleweight judoka. She won bronze medals at the 2011 and 2015 Pan American Games, and competed at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. At the 2012 Olympics, she lost her first match to Yuri Alvear. At the 2016 Games, she beat Assmaa Niang in the first round, before losing to Bernadette Graf in the second.
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