Irina Nekrassova
Irina Nekrassova (born March 1, 1988)[1] is a female weightlifter from Kazakhstan.
Career
At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships she ranked 9th in the 69 kg category, lifting 228 kg in total.[1]
She initially won the silver medal in the 63 kg category at the 2008 Summer Olympics, with 240 kg in total. On 17 November 2016 the IOC disqualified her from the 2008 Olympic Games, stripped her Olympic medal and struck her results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of her doping sample from 2008.[2]
References
- ^ a b "NEKRASSOVA Irina". International Weightlifting Federation.
- ^ "Doping: 2008 Beijing Olympics medal winners among 16 athletes banned for doping". BBC. 2016-11-17.
External links
- Athlete Biography at beijing2008
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