Rauli Tsirekidze
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Born | 24 May 1987 Kutaisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union | (age 37)|||||||||||
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Rauli Tsirekidze or Raul Tsirek'idze (Georgian: რაულ ცირეკიძე; born 24 May 1987, in Kutaisi, Georgian SSR) is a Georgian weightlifter competing in the 85 kg category. He participated in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.[1]
On 21 November 2016 the IOC disqualified him from the 2012 Olympic Games and struck his results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of his doping sample from 2012.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Raul Tsirek'idze". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
- ^ "IOC sanctions 12 athletes for failing anti-doping test at London 2012" (PDF). IOC. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
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- Male weightlifters from Georgia (country)
- Olympic weightlifters for Georgia (country)
- Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Kutaisi
- Doping cases in weightlifting
- Sportspeople from Georgia (country) in doping cases
- European Weightlifting Championships medalists
- 21st-century people from Georgia (country)
- European weightlifting biography stubs
- Georgia (country) sportspeople stubs