Andrei Rybakou

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Andrei Rybakou
Rybakou in November 2011
Personal information
Nationality Belarus
Born (1982-03-04) 4 March 1982 (age 42)
Mogilev, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
CountryBelarus
SportWeightlifting
Event–85 kg
Medal record
Representing  Belarus
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens -85 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2006 Santo Domingo -85 kg
Gold medal – first place 2007 Chiang Mai -85 kg
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2006 Władysławowo -85 kg

Andrei Rybakou (Belarusian: Андрэй Анатолевіч Рыбакоў) (born March 4, 1982) is a Belarusian former weightlifter, Olympian[1] and two-time World Champion who competed in the 85 kg category. In 2016, after a retest of his 2008 samples tested positive for Dehydrochloromethyl-testosterone and Stanozolol his performance at the 2008 Olympic Games was disqualified, as well as his Olympic record and World record set during the competition. He was also ordered to return his silver medal.

Career

Olympics

In 2004 Rybakou made his Olympic debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he competed in the 85 kg category. During the snatch portion, after making a 180.0 kg lift, he attempted a new world record lift of 183.0 kg, he did not make the lift as the clock ran out on him, but as he was competing in the B category he had a 12.5 kg lead over the net closest competitor. During the clean & jerk portion of the competition his last successful lift of 200.0 kg gave him a total of 380.0 kg which led the second place competitor in the B group by 25.0 kg. It was not until Giorgi Asanidze's first clean & jerk of 202.5 kg in the A session that Rybakou was bumped from the gold medal position. Giorgi Asanidze ended up becoming Olympic Champion and Rybakou was awarded the silver medal.[2]

Following his silver medal finish in 2004, two

2008 Olympic Games was disqualified, as well as his Olympic record and World record set during the competition. He was also ordered to return his silver medal.[8][9]

In 2012 he competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 85 kg category, but was unable to complete a snatch, because of this he could not compete in the clean & jerk portion of the competition which resulted in a DNF.[10]

Other Championships

In April 2006, he won the European Championship. Later that year, during the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships he was crowned as the World Champion in the 85 kg category.[11]

He won the gold medal in the 85 kg category again at the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships,[11] setting a world record with a 187 kg snatch.[12]

Major results

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Olympic Games
2004 Greece Athens, Greece 85 kg 175.0 180.0 183.0 1 195.0 200.0 202.5 7 380.0 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
2008 China Beijing, China 85 kg 180 185 185 — 200 204 209 — — DSQ
2012 United Kingdom London, United Kingdom 85 kg 175 180 180 — — — — — — —
World Championships
2003 Canada Vancouver, Canada 94 kg 172.5 172.5 172.5 — — — — — — —
2005 Qatar Doha, Qatar 85 kg 180 183 WR 185 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 195 200 200 12 380 5
2006
Dominican Rep
 85 kg 180 187 187 1st place, gold medalist(s) 200 203 210 1st place, gold medalist(s) 383 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2007 Thailand Chiang Mai, Thailand 85 kg 180 185 187 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 200 206 209 1st place, gold medalist(s) 393 WR[a] 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2011 France Paris, France 85 kg 170 175 178 1st place, gold medalist(s) 182 185 190 18 368 7
2013 Poland Wrocław, Poland 85 kg 175 179 179 1st place, gold medalist(s) 194 194 200 7 373 6
2014 Kazakhstan Almaty, Kazakhstan 85 kg 175 175 179 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 182 191 191 19 366 8
European Championships
2003 Greece Loutraki, Greece 85 kg 175.0 180.0 180.0 1st place, gold medalist(s) 190.0 190.0 197.5 10 370.0 6
2004 Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine 85 kg 175.0 175.0 180.0 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 190.0 197.5 197.5 17 365.0 8
2006 Poland Władysławowo, Poland 85 kg 180 186 186 WR 1st place, gold medalist(s) 195 200 206 1st place, gold medalist(s) 392 1st place, gold medalist(s)

Notes

  • a Not a world record at the time of the competition, became a world record when IWF decided to eliminate the world standards from the list of World Records on 24 June 2008.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Olympic Profile". Olympic.org. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  2. ^ "85 kg Men's Results". Olympic.org. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Men's 85 kg: A STORY OF 28 DKG". IWF.net. 15 August 2008. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  4. ^ "FLASH: BELARUS RYBAKOV BREAKS MEN'S 85KG WEIGHTLIFTING WORLD RECORD". Archived from the original on August 24, 2008. Retrieved 2012-07-28.
  5. ^ "IWF Sanctions". IWF.net. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  6. ^ "3 Olympic weightlifting gold medalists fail doping retests". Associated Press. 24 August 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  7. ^ "9 Olympians, including 6 medallists, caught for Beijing doping". cbc.ca. 26 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  8. ^ "Doping Reanalysis". IWF.net. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  9. ^ "Doping in sport: 11 Beijing 2008 weightlifting medallists fail retests". BBC. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  10. ^ "Men's 85 kg London Results". Reuters. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  11. ^ a b "Rybakov Andrei". International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2010.
  12. ^ "Andrei Rybakov". Lift Up. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
  13. ^ "IWF eliminates World Standards from World Record list". International Weightlifting Federation. 24 June 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
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