Egypt’s success on the 2024 Paralympic Video games in Paris continues with veteran para powerlifter Mohamed Elelfat successful a silver medal within the males’s as much as 88kg competitors.
Held at La Chapelle Area on 7 September 2024, the 45-year-old Egyptian athlete delivered a finest carry of 224kg, inserting him second behind China’s Panpan Yan, who secured the gold medal with a dominant carry of 242kg.
This silver medal provides to Elelfat’s adorned Paralympic profession. He beforehand received silver within the -75kg class on the 2012 London Paralympics and bronze within the males’s 80kg occasion on the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo. With 4 Paralympic appearances beneath his belt, Elelfat, who first took up para powerlfting in 1996 in Menoufiya, continues to shine on the world stage.
Elelfat’s silver medal marks one other success for Egypt on the 2024 Paralympic Video games in Paris, becoming a member of a string of spectacular outcomes by Egyptian athletes. Earlier this week, Mohamed Elmenyawy claimed Egypt’s first medal of the Video games with a gold within the males’s 59kg para powerlifting competitors. Rehab Ahmed adopted go well with with a gold within the ladies’s as much as 55kg class, and Fatma Elyan earned a silver medal within the ladies’s as much as 67kg competitors.
