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Olesya Lafina (russian: Оле́ся Лафина) is a 34-year-old
Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
n Paralympic
powerlifter Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athlete attempting a maximal weight single-lift effor ...
who won the 2014 IPC Powerlifting World Championships which were held in
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on 7 April 2014. There, she competed against Lidiia Soloviova of
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and Gihan Abdelaziz of
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who won silver and bronze respectively. In 2012 she won silver medal at the 2012 London Paralympic games in , and weightlifting and in 2013 won the European title. On May 23 she won a gold medal in
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, Russia for her participation in the IPC Powerlifting Open European Championships.


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Living people Russian female powerlifters Paralympic silver medalists for Russia Powerlifters at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Paralympic powerlifters for Russia Year of birth missing (living people) Paralympic medalists in powerlifting {{Russia-weightlifting-bio-stub