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Para Powerlifting At The 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's Lightweight
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The Women's lightweight powerlifting event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games took place at the Carrara Sports and Leisure Centre on 10 April 2018. Result References Powerlifting at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Common Common may refer to: Places * Common, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland * Boston Common, a central public park in Boston, Massachusetts * Cambridge Common, common land area in Cambridge, Massachusetts * Clapham Common, originally com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrara Sports And Leisure Centre
Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre is a multi-purpose arena and sports facility located at Carrara on Queensland's Gold Coast in Australia, capable of seating 5,000 fans. The centre is located adjacent to the Carrara Indoor Stadium and forms part of the Gold Coast Sports Precinct. A section of the centre also serves as a sports administration and indoor training facility for the Gold Coast Suns with the facility being called the Austworld Centre under a naming rights partnership, who play home matches and train outdoors at the adjacent Carrara Stadium and training oval. Constructed for use in the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre hosted badminton, powerlifting, weightlifting and wrestling competitions. During the Games, it was called as Carrara Sports and Leisure Centre. On 7 July 2018 the arena hosted a 2018 Suncorp Super Netball Round 10 match between Queensland Firebirds and Melbourne Vixens. In October 2020, the Brisbane Roar moved their tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Oyema
Esther Oyema (born 20 April 1982) is a Nigerian powerlifter. Oyema competed in the women's 61 kg event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a gold medal and set a new world record by lifting 122.4 kg in the heavyweight category. In 2015, she won a gold medal at the All-Africa Games by lifting 133 kg, beating her previous record of 126 kg. In the same year, she traveled all the way to Almaty, Kazakhstan where she won another gold medal at the IPC Powerlifting Asian Open Championships by lifting 79 kg. During the 2016 Summer Paralympics she won a silver medal by beating her Mexican counterpart, Amalia Perez in the women's 55 kg lifting. She won a gold medal and created a new world record of 131 kg in the women's lightweight event at the 2018 Commonwealth games. On May 21, 2020, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) banned her for four years after failing a doping test. She competed at the 2019 International Paralympic competition held at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Ejike
Lucy Ogechukwu Ejike (born 16 October 1977) is a Nigerian Paralympic powerlifter. She has represented her country at six consecutive Paralympic Games from 2000 in Sydney through to 2021 in Tokyo. She has won medals at each, three gold, two silver and one bronze. She won a further silver medal at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth games women's lightweight category of the Para Powerlifting event behind compatriot Esther Oyema. Personal history Ejike was born in Enugu, Nigeria, in 1977. Ejike uses a wheelchair due to polio Ejike is married and she has two sons. She lives in the state of Enugu Enugu ( ; ) is the capital city of Enugu State in Nigeria. It is located in southeastern part of Nigeria. The city had a population of 820,000 according to the 2022 Nigerian census. The name ''Enugu'' is derived from the two Igbo words ''Énú ... where she works as a sports administrator. Powerlifting career Ejike began training as a powerlifter shortly before the 2000 Summer Paralymp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Newson
Zoe Newson (born 24 March 1992) is a British powerlifter. She is a two-time bronze medalist at the Summer Paralympics and she won the silver medal in her event at the 2021 World Para Powerlifting Championships. In 2012 Newson posted a European record at the IPC Powerlifting British Championships and took bronze in the under 40 kg class for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Career history Newson was born in Ipswich in 1992 and was educated at East Bergholt High School. Newson, who was born with growth hormone deficiency, tried out powerlifting for the first time in 2006, joining the Suffolk Spartans club in Colchester in 2007. Newson entered a local competition in 2007, lifting near 40 kg, but by January 2008 she had improved this to 47.5 kg, taking second place at a Paralympic competition in Cardiff. In May Newson lifted a personal best of 60 kg and repeated this feat in June at the British Finals to make her British Champion in her clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Powerlifting At The 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's 61 Kg ...
The Women's 61 kg para-sport powerlifting event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, took place at Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre on 2 August. The weightlifter from Nigeria won the gold. Result References {{DEFAULTSORT:Powerlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games - Women's 61 kg Weightlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Com Com or COM may refer to: Computing * COM (hardware interface), a serial port interface on IBM PC-compatible computers * COM file, or .com file, short for "command", a file extension for an executable file in MS-DOS * .com, an Internet top-level d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Para Powerlifting At The 2022 Commonwealth Games – Women's Lightweight
The Women's lightweight powerlifting event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games took place at the National Exhibition Centre on 4 August 2022. Schedule All times are British Summer Time During British Summer Time (BST), civil time in the United Kingdom is advanced one hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), in effect changing the time zone from UTC±00:00 to UTC+01:00, so that mornings have one hour less daylight, and ev ... (UTC+1) Result References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Powerlifting at the 2022 Commonwealth Games - Women's lightweight Powerlifting at the 2022 Commonwealth Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Commonwealth Games
The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, between 4 and 15 April 2018. It was the fifth time Australia had hosted the Commonwealth Games and the first time a major multi-sport had an equal number of events for male and female athletes. 4,426 athletes including 300 para-athletes from 71 Commonwealth Games Associations took part in the event. The Gambia, which withdrew its membership from the Commonwealth of Nations and Commonwealth Games Federation in 2013, was readmitted on 31 March 2018 and participated in the event. With 275 sets of medals, the games featured 18 Commonwealth sports, including beach volleyball, para triathlon and women's rugby sevens. These sporting events took place at 14 venues in the host city, two venues in Brisbane and one venue each in Cairns and Townsville. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paralympic Powerlifting
Paralympic powerlifting, also known as para powerlifting and para-lifting, is an adaptation of the sport of powerlifting for athletes with disabilities. The only discipline in Paralympic powerlifting is the bench press. The sport is governed by the International Paralympic Committee (World Para Powerlifting) and is open to anyone with a minimum level of disability who can extend their arms within 20° of full extension during a lift. Powerlifting has been competed Powerlifting at the Summer Paralympics, at the Summer Paralympics since 1984. Events Events:https://www.paralympic.org/sites/default/files/document/180725160956008_Appendix+1+-+WPPO+Qualification+Pathway+2017-2020.pdf Global * Powerlifting at the Summer Paralympics since 1984. * World Para Powerlifting Championships since 1994. * World Para Powerlifting World Cup (WPPO World Cup) since 2015. * Fazaa International Powerlifting Competition since 2009. (2013 not held) Regional 2013, 2015, 2018. (IPC Powerlifting Ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellen Kariuki
Hellen Wawira Kariuki (born 15 April 1992) is a Kenyan para powerlifter. She competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games where she came 4th in the lightweight event. She won a bronze medal in the lightweight event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England bet .... References 1992 births Living people Kenyan powerlifters Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Kenya Commonwealth Games medallists in powerlifting Powerlifters at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Powerlifters at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games 21st-century Kenyan women 21st-century Kenyan people {{Kenya-weightlifting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakina Khatun
Sakina Khatun (born 20 June 1989 in Bangalore, Karnataka) is an Indian powerlifter who won bronze medal in the Powerlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Women's 61 kg, women's 61 kg event at the Weightlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, 2014 Commonwealth Games. Sakina Khatun was awarded (presents by Industrialist T. Anil Jain) among 9 other women achievers at the 2016 BREW awards organised by The Brew Magazine in Chennai, on the occasion of 2016 International Women's Day. Early life Khatun was affiliated with polio since she was young. Her father worked as a marginal farmer and the family faced many difficulties financially. Khatun was passionate about sports from a very young. This passion pushed her to continue her journey with sports. She had to undergo 4 surgeries due to her health conditions and to survive polio. As swimming helps strengthen most muscles in body, she was suggested by doctors to take up swimming to recover from the medical procedure. It was then t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie Blake
Natalie Blake (born 4 December 1982) is a British powerlifter. She competed for England in the women's 61 kg event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a silver medal. She also competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games where she came 6th in the lightweight Lightweight is a weight class in combat sports and rowing. Boxing Professional boxing The lightweight division is over 130 pounds (59 kilograms) and up to 135 pounds (61.2 kilograms) weight class in the sport of boxing. Notable lightweight boxe ... event. References 1982 births Living people English female weightlifters Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Powerlifters at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Female powerlifters Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting Powerlifters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Powerlifters at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games {{UK-weightlifting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Cartwright
Kelly Cartwright (born 22 April 1989) is an Australian athlete and powerlifter. She won two medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, London 2012 Paralympics, and represented Australia in the 2008 Summer Paralympics, Beijing 2008 Paralympics. Personal Kelly Anne Cartwright was born on 22 April 1989 and is from Geelong. When she was fifteen she had a form of cancer called synovial sarcoma. Part of her right leg needed to be amputated due to the cancer because chemotherapy was not an option. She has a prosthetic leg that she started using in high school. Her regular walking leg cost Australian dollars, A$62,000 and needed to be charged every night. Before losing her leg she played netball. Cartwright climbed Mt Kilimanjaro in 2009. she worked as a receptionist. She is also an ambassador for the Australian Paralympic Committee and Make-A-Wish Foundation. In 2012 she was named one of ''Zoo Weekly''s sexiest Paralympian. Cartwright appeared on the Dancing with the Stars (Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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