Esther Oyema
Esther Oyema is a Nigerian powerlifter. She competed in the women's 61 kg event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a gold medal and set a new world record by lifting 122.4 kg in the heavyweight category. In 2015 she won a gold medal at the All-Africa Games by lifting 133 kg and beating her previous record 126 kg. In the same year she traveled all the way to Almaty, Kazakhstan where she won another gold medal at the IPC Powerlifting Asian Open Championships by lifting 79 kg. During the 2016 Summer Paralympics she won a silver medal by beating her Mexican counterpart Amalia Perez in the women's 55 kg lifting.
She won gold medal and created a new world record of 131 kg in the women's lightweight category of Para Powerlifting at the Gold Cost 2018 Commonwealth games.
On May 21, 2020, the International Paralympic Committee banned her for four years after failing a doping test. She competed at the 2019 International Paralympic competition held at the Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, where she won gold medal. Her urine sample was collected by the IPC during the competition and she was said to have tested positive to 19-norandrosterone.
