Men's -49kg | Powerlifting | Rio 2016 Paralympic Games
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Men's 49kg
Plus Victory Ceremony
Gold: Van Cong Le (VIE) world record
Silver: Omar Qarada (JOR)
Bronze: Nandor Tunkel (HUN)
Start list:
Aliou Bawa (TOG)
Hiroshi Miura (JPN)
Pia (LAO)
Basha Farman (IND)
Keunjin Choi (KOR)
Patrick Ardon (FRA)
Nandor Tunkel (HUN)
Omar Qarada (JOR)
Van Cong Le (VIE)
The surprise withdrawal of London 2012 Paralympic champion, Nigeria’s Yakubu Adesokan, in the men’s up to 49kg event saw Vietnam’s Van cong Le crowned the new champion, breaking the world and Paralympic records in the process.
He was made to work extremely hard, however, with Jordan’s Omar Qarada applying plenty of pressure, but Le finished with the gold medal and a new world record of 183kg.
Le broke the Paralympic record with his first attempt at 175kg but Qarada snatched the lead and the record back with a 177kg lift with his second attempt.
The pressure was then on Le as he failed with his second attempt of 179kg to remain in the silver medal position going into the final round.
However, Le lifted for the occasion with a successful 181kg effort to propel himself back into the lead and regain the Paralympic record.
Qarada then attempted to match Le’s mark at 181kg, but was unsuccessful which handed Vietnam its first gold medal of the Paralympics.
Le returned to the stage moments later to break his own world record of 182kg with a perfect lift of 183kg and was overcome with emotion as he did so.
Qarada had to settle for silver, while the bronze medal went to crowd favourite Nandor Tunkel who produced a lift of 155kg with his second attempt.
A delighted Tunkel said it was a dream come true to win the bronze medal.
“When I came to Rio at the start of the year I was sixth in the rankings, but before the Paralympics I was fourth so I hoped I could get a medal,” he said.
Tunkel’s bronze was the first medal for Hungary in the Rio 2016 Paralympics and he hopes it can inspire the rest of the team to perform well.
“I will first rest for a little while, but every Hungarian athlete is into supporting the team when they are not competing so I will be doing that,” he added.
For more information on the Rio 2016 Paralympic Game, please visit http://www.paralympic.org/rio-2016
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The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games were held from 7-18 September 2016. Athletes from more than 160 countries competed in 528 medal events in 22 different sports.
Plus Victory Ceremony
Gold: Van Cong Le (VIE) world record
Silver: Omar Qarada (JOR)
Bronze: Nandor Tunkel (HUN)
Start list:
Aliou Bawa (TOG)
Hiroshi Miura (JPN)
Pia (LAO)
Basha Farman (IND)
Keunjin Choi (KOR)
Patrick Ardon (FRA)
Nandor Tunkel (HUN)
Omar Qarada (JOR)
Van Cong Le (VIE)
The surprise withdrawal of London 2012 Paralympic champion, Nigeria’s Yakubu Adesokan, in the men’s up to 49kg event saw Vietnam’s Van cong Le crowned the new champion, breaking the world and Paralympic records in the process.
He was made to work extremely hard, however, with Jordan’s Omar Qarada applying plenty of pressure, but Le finished with the gold medal and a new world record of 183kg.
Le broke the Paralympic record with his first attempt at 175kg but Qarada snatched the lead and the record back with a 177kg lift with his second attempt.
The pressure was then on Le as he failed with his second attempt of 179kg to remain in the silver medal position going into the final round.
However, Le lifted for the occasion with a successful 181kg effort to propel himself back into the lead and regain the Paralympic record.
Qarada then attempted to match Le’s mark at 181kg, but was unsuccessful which handed Vietnam its first gold medal of the Paralympics.
Le returned to the stage moments later to break his own world record of 182kg with a perfect lift of 183kg and was overcome with emotion as he did so.
Qarada had to settle for silver, while the bronze medal went to crowd favourite Nandor Tunkel who produced a lift of 155kg with his second attempt.
A delighted Tunkel said it was a dream come true to win the bronze medal.
“When I came to Rio at the start of the year I was sixth in the rankings, but before the Paralympics I was fourth so I hoped I could get a medal,” he said.
Tunkel’s bronze was the first medal for Hungary in the Rio 2016 Paralympics and he hopes it can inspire the rest of the team to perform well.
“I will first rest for a little while, but every Hungarian athlete is into supporting the team when they are not competing so I will be doing that,” he added.
For more information on the Rio 2016 Paralympic Game, please visit http://www.paralympic.org/rio-2016
Like us: https://www.facebook.com/Paralympics and follow us: https://www.twitter.com/paralympics
The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games were held from 7-18 September 2016. Athletes from more than 160 countries competed in 528 medal events in 22 different sports.