Nassima Saifi wins discus gold for Algeria in Paris
A 35.55m winning mark put the Algerian thrower at the top of the women’s discus F57 podium.
Nassima Saifi in the women’s discus F57 final at Stade de France during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, 31 August 2024. Original Wikimedia Commons photograph; no AI editing.
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Algeria’s Nassima Saifi won the women’s discus F57 gold medal at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games on 31 August. The IPC’s published morning-session report confirmed the podium, with China’s Xu Mian taking silver and Uzbekistan’s Mokhigul Khamdamova winning bronze at the Stade de France.
African participation across the final
The official results archive records Saifi’s winning distance as 35.55m. Xu reached 32.81m, while Khamdamova finished just six centimetres further back at 32.75m. Saifi’s winning margin over the silver medallist was therefore 2.74m.
The final also featured Algeria’s Safia Djelal, eighth with 29.17m. Cameroon’s Arlette Mawe Fokoa finished eleventh with 23.94m and Ghana’s Zinabu Issah twelfth with 23.85m. Their participation adds a wider African dimension to the record of a final headed by Saifi.