Luanda – Athletes Pedro Adão and Mauro Luís, both in the 49 kg category, start Tuesday the Para-weightlifting World Championship, taking place from March 17 to 25, in Cairo (Egypt), qualifying for Paris'2024.
For this purpose, the national team, led by coach António Baltazar, went on Sunday to the stage of the adapted weightlifting world championship and today carries out the medical exams and weigh-in.
After Angola's first presence in the Atlanta 1996 Paralympic Games, with athletics, there is now the possibility of a second national sport competing in the event dedicated to disabled athletes from all over the world.
Pedro Adão was a bronze medalist in the 2022 edition in Dubai, while Mauro Luís was sixth in the African Championship, in 2014, in Congo Brazzaville.
Pedro Adão is ranked 16th in the African ranking, while Mauro Luís is ranked 19th.
The Paralympic Games will be held from August 28 to September 8 this year in Paris (France), bringing together at least 4,400 of the best disabled athletes.
With ten years, Para-weightlifting is practiced in Angola in the provinces of Luanda, Benguela, Bié, Cuanza Norte, Cuanza Sul and Huambo, in a universe of 26 athletes, in both sexes. MC/CF/DOJ
