Powerlifting – Women's 61 kg at the XV Paralympic Games
Venue	Riocentro Pavilion 2
Date	11 September 2012 (2012-09-11)
Competitors	8 from 8 nations
Winning lift	142.0 kg WR
Medalists
Lucy Ejike  Nigeria Fatma Omar  Egypt Yang Yan  China
←(60 kg · 67.5 kg) 2020→

Powerlifting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
	Men	Women
	49 kg	41 kg
	54 kg	45 kg
	59 kg	50 kg
	65 kg	55 kg
	72 kg	61 kg
	80 kg	67 kg
	88 kg	73 kg
	97 kg	79 kg
	107 kg	86 kg
	+107 kg	+86 kg

The women's 61 kg powerlifting event at the 2016 Summer Paralympics was contested on 11 September at Riocentro Pavilion 2. Lin Ya-hsuan, representing Chinese Taipei competed in the Games for the fourth consecutive time. The best outcome out of three attempts counted as the final results. The athlete who placed first in each event was allowed a fourth attempt to break the Paralympic or world record.

There are twenty powerlifting events, corresponding to ten weight classes each for men and women. The weight categories were significantly adjusted after the 2012 Games so most of the weights are new for 2016. As a result, no Paralympic record was available for this weight class prior to the competition. The existing world records were as follows.

Record Type	Weight	Country	Venue	Date
World record	133 kg[1]	Amalia Perez (MEX)	Toronto	10 August 2015
Paralympic record	–	–	–	–

Rank	Name	Body weight (kg)	Attempts (kg)				Result (kg)
			1	2	3	4
	Lucy Ejike (NGR)	59.13	136.0	138.0	142.0 WR PR	145.0	142.0
	Fatma Omar (EGY)	60.31	133.0	133.0	140.0	–	140.0
	Yang Yan (CHN)	59.32	120.0	128.0	134.0	–	128.0
4	Malgorzata Halas-Koralewska (POL)	59.65	100.0	100.0	103.0	–	100.0
5	Tetyana Shyrokolava (UKR)	60.40	100.0	100.0	103.0	–	100.0
6	Chantell Stierman (RSA)	60.48	75.0	80.0	88.0	–	80.0
7	Lin Ya-hsuan (TPE)	57.83	78.0	81.0	81.0	–	78.0
–	Mariana D'Andrea (BRA)	60.61	96.0	96.0	101.0	–	NMR

• "Women's -61 kg". 2016 Summer Paralympics. Archived from the original on 29 September 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2016.