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For Para powerlifter Perez, sport is a door to “many, many dreams”
Mexico's four-time Paralympic champion Amalia Perez is ready to compete at Paris 2024, her seventh Games

Paris 2024 venue guide: Porte de la Chapelle Arena
Paris long-needed mid-size venue will host five days of Para powerlifting medal events from 4 to 8 September and will also be the home of Para badminton at this year's Paralympic Games

Paris 2024: Find out who is competing at this year's Paralympics
Here you can find the complete list of athletes who will be in action in the French capital where Para powerlifting will celebrate 40 years since the sport was introduced to the Paralympic medal programme

Q&A with Refugee Paralympic Team athlete Hadi Darvish
Hadi Darvish will compete in Para powerlifting as a member of the largest-ever Refugee Paralympic Team

World Cup 2024: Tbilisi sees record breaking shows ahead of Paralympics
Abdelkareem Khattab, Zheng Feifei, Folashade Oluwafemiayo and Rehab Ahmed set new world records as China top medals table in six-day World Cup in Georgia

World Cup 2024: Focus on qualification in final meet ahead of Paris
Strong competition on card with 313 athletes from 66 nations attempting for one last time to gain Paralympic ranking this week in Tbilisi, Georgia

World Cup 2024: Perez leads Mexico's medal charge in Acapulco
The hosts shine with four gold to top medals table followed by Egypt, Cuba and Chile in the four-day event

World Cup 2024: Regional stars focus on Paris 2024 qualification
Four-time Paralympic champion Perez to lead home challenge even as Para Pan American Games stars look to shine, while Egypt athletes aim for glory in four-day event in Acapulco

World Cup 2024: Regional and rookie world records fall in Pattaya
Teenagers from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan set new world marks even as home team take four medals. Indonesia finished on top with three gold at the third World Cup of the season

Ones to Watch in Para powerlifting
The 10 Para powerlifters you should be looking out for when the next Paralympics kick off in France

Qarada sets sights on world record triumph
Defending Paralympic powerlifting champion says he fears no one in quest for gold

Aceituno lifts El Salvador’s hopes of Paralympic glory
Para powerlifter Herbert Aceituno training for another podium finish after Tokyo breakthrough

World Cup 2024: Degtyarev, Gustin among Paralympic champions keen to showcase talent
Alongside Sodnompiljee Enkhbayar, Kazakh and Malaysian stars are the Tokyo 2020 gold medallists set to compete in Pattaya, Thailand at the third World Cup of the season

Powerlifter D’Andrea takes training to next level in quest for second Paralympic gold
Brazilian Para powerlifter Mariana D’Andrea says having the attitude of a champion is the key to Paralympic success

Introduction to Para powerlifting
The Paris 2024 Paralympics will feature up to 180 athletes competing in 20 medal events

IPC calls for Expressions of Interest in transfer of governance of Para powerlifting
Cities, national governments, sport organisations and other entities are invited to express their interest in the sport

World Cup 2024: Nigeria’s Oluwafemiayo, Mark open season in style
World record shows from Nigerian female stars propel African nation to top of medals table, Ahmed leads hosts’ medal charge, while Jordan's Abdelkareem Khattab kicks off the season with gold in Egypt

Strong line-up for first Sharm El Sheikh 2024 World Cup
Paralympic and world stars including Rehab Ahmed, Sherif Osman, Abdelkareem Khattab, Onyinyechi Mark and Kafila Almaruf in action in six-day event

World Cup 2024: Guo Lingling stamps dominance in Dubai
Chinese star breaks her own world record en route to another gold in UAE leading the way to her country's 13 triumphs out of 20 medal events; a total of 200 powerlifters from 32 nations were in action in the first World Cup of the season

World Para Powerlifting mourns passing of Lt. Cdr. Kamaruzaman Kadir
Chairperson of the World Para Powerlifting Sport Technical Committee (STC) and President of the Malaysian Para Powerlifting Association, Kadir was instrumental to the development of the sport in Asia and worldwide in the last 20 years