{"id":25961,"date":"2026-07-24T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=25961"},"modified":"2026-07-24T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:21:00","slug":"records-tumble-as-nigeria-confirm-para-powerlifting-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=25961","title":{"rendered":"Records tumble as Nigeria confirm Para Powerlifting dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Veteran lifter Folashade Oluwafemiayo defended her Women’s Heavyweight title on a night of Para Powerlifting world records and Nigerian pride at the SEC Armadillo on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The two-time Paralympic champion justified her top billing by setting a world best mark for lifters 86kg and over before bettering even that with her final attempt of the competition.<\/p>\n
“If you have passion for something, there’s no other way,” Oluwafemiayo (pictured), 41, said. “You go with your whole heart. It’s about the passion, but also the resilience and the discipline.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oluwafemiayo piled the pressure on the rest of the field from the outset, going after her own Commonwealth Games record of 165kg on her opening lift, and making it look easy.<\/p>\n
She followed up with an audacious shot at 172kg – four kilogrammes more than she lifted at the 2025 world championships in Egypt last October – and nailed that, too.<\/p>\n
The gold medal secured, she pushed the bar to 175kg and recorded her third successful lift of the night – each one a record.<\/p>\n
“175 is not easy,” she said. “I was not expecting it, I was just calculating based on my training.<\/p>\n