Svetlana Kaspolatovna Tsarukaeva (Russian: Светлана Касполатовна Царукаева) (born 25 December 1987) is a Russian weightlifter.
 Svetlana Tsarukaeva, 2011 WWC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | December 25, 1987 Ordzhonikidze, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 63kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Kazbek Zoloev | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Career edit
She won the 2006 Women's Junior World Championships in the 58 kg category, with a total of 231 kg.[1]
Tsarukaeva participated in the women's -58 kg category at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships and won the silver medal, finishing behind Qiu Hongmei. She snatched 108 kg and clean and jerked an additional 125 kg for a total of 233 kg, 4 kg behind winner Qiu.[1]
At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships she won the silver medal in the 63 kg category, with a total of 250 kg.[1]
Tsarukaeva entered the 2008 Summer Olympics as the favourite for the 63 kg event.[2][3]
Tsarukaeva was initially awarded a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's 63 kg event. However, on 27 July 2016, the IWF reported that, in the IOC's second wave of re-sampling for doping violations at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tsarukayeva had tested positive for the steroid dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.[4] If confirmed, she would be stripped of the Olympic medal. The IWF has provisionally suspended her. On 5 April 2017 it was announced that as a result of retesting samples she had been disqualified from the 2012 Olympics for a drug violation, and her silver medal withdrawn.[5]
Achievements edit
References edit
- ^ a b c "TSARUKAEVA Svetlana". International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011.
- ^ "Russian weightlifting favourite hits the wall", ABC, August 12, 2008
- ^ "Defeat, Then Agony", The New York Times, August 12, 2008
- ^ "Eleven London 2012 weightlifters fail doping tests". Reuters. 27 July 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ "IOC sanctions three athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 and London 2012". IOC. 5 April 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
External links edit
- Athlete Biography at beijing2008
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