Powerlifting Paralympics 2024. Parmjeet kumar, one of india’s leading para powerlifters, entered the para powerlifting men’s 49kg final at the paris paralympics 2024 with high hopes. Louise sugden won bronze at tokyo 2020, securing the medal with her final lift.

Two medals came for india in the day as praveen kumar bagged a gold in the long jump event and hokato hotozhe sema won a bronze in the shot put final. Paralympic powerlifting is a bench press competition, with athletes lying flat on a specially designed bench and then aiming to lower a horizontally weighted bar from arm’s length to the chest.