Egypt’s golden day of success on the 2024 Paralympic Video games in Paris continues with Rehab Ahmed claiming the gold medal within the ladies’s as much as 55kg para powerlifting competitors. Held at La Chapelle Area, the 33-year-old Egyptian athlete dominated the occasion, lifting a better of 121kg to safe her spot on the prime of the rostrum.
Rehab Ahmed’s elevate was nicely forward of her competitors, with Turkey’s Besra Duman incomes the silver medal with a greatest elevate of 113kg, and Thailand’s Kamoplan Kraratpet securing bronze with a elevate of 108kg. Ahmed’s distinctive efficiency reaffirmed her standing as one of many world’s premier para powerlifters.
This victory comes simply hours after Mohamed Elmenyawy gained Egypt’s first medal on the 2024 Paralympic Video games—a gold medal within the males’s 59kg para powerlifting competitors.
Rehab Ahmed’s gold provides to an already illustrious profession. A two-time silver medalist on the Summer time Paralympics, she beforehand gained silver on the 2016 Video games in Rio de Janeiro and on the 2020 Video games in Tokyo, the place she set a Paralympic file with a elevate of 117kg, which she then improved to 120kg.
Past the Paralympics, she is a three-time World Champion, having secured gold within the ladies’s 50kg class on the World Para Powerlifting Championships in 2017 (Mexico Metropolis), 2019 (Nur-Sultan), and 2021 (Tbilisi).
With this newest triumph in Paris, Rehab Ahmed additional solidifies her place as considered one of Egypt’s most adorned Paralympic athletes.