Mohamed Elmenyawy has captured Egypt’s first medal, a gold, on the 2024 Paralympic Video games in Paris, with an unbelievable efficiency within the males’s 59kg powerlifting competitors.
The occasion, held at La Chapelle Enviornment, noticed the 25-year-old Egyptian athlete ship an distinctive efficiency, lifting 201kg in his finest try to say the highest spot on the rostrum.
In a fiercely contested last, Elmenyawy narrowly edged out China’s Yongkai Qi, who managed a finest raise of 200kg, whereas Iran’s Mohsen Bakhtiar secured bronze with a raise of 197kg. The competitors, the primary Paralympics for Elmenyawy, was a testomony to the unbelievable power, dedication, and ability on show, with Elmenyawy rising victorious by the narrowest of margins.
Elmenyawy’s journey to this gold medal is a narrative of perseverance and progress. On the 2023 World Championships, he completed in third place. In 2021, competing on the World Championships in Tbilisi, he positioned eighth.
