page_title: Australia at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
section_title: Powerlifting
hierarchical_section_title: Australia at the 1992 Summer Paralympics / Events / Powerlifting
caption_attribution_description: English: Australian weightlifter Ramon (Ray) Epstein at the 1992 Paralympic Games in Barcelona.
context_page_description: Australia competed at the 1992 Paralympic Games in Barcelona for physically and vision-impaired athletes. Immediately after the Barcelona Games, the city of Madrid held events for athletes with an intellectual disability. The Madrid results are not included in International Paralympic Committee Historical Results Database. Australia finished 7th in the total medal count winning 76 medals. Australia competed in 13 sports and won medals in 3 sports – swimming, athletics and weightlifting. Australia finished first in the medal tally at the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap in Madrid.
context_section_description: The specific 'Powerlifting' event debuted at the 1992 Paralympics, after previously being known as 'weightlifting', and being limited to just men with spinal cord injuries, then evolving to include athletes with other disabilities and gaining rules identical to Powerlifting for able-bodied athletes. No women competed in the 1992 games, however 25 counties were involved in the competition. Powerlifting is a benchpress competition and includes 10 bodyweight divisions for each men and women.
  Australia represented by: 
  Men – Ray Epstein, Brian McNicholl, Steve Green 
  
  Australia won a gold medal through the world record breaking performance of Brian McNicholl's.
caption: Ramon Epstein lifting at the 1992 Paralympic Games
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