Svetlana Podobedova
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| Years active | 2003– | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Vladimir Sedov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Olympic weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | –75 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Pavel Blinov, Enver Turkileri, Alexey Ni | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Svetlana Podobedova (Russian: Светлана Подобедова; born May 25, 1986, Zima, Irkutsk[1]) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani weightlifter.
Career
Podobedova was awarded the gold medal at the
Natalia Zabolotnaya. She was awarded the medal by virtue of lighter bodyweight.[1]
In June 2016, following the Russian doping scandal, it was announced by the IWF that retests of the samples taken from the 2012 Olympics indicated that Podobedova had tested positive for prohibited substances, namely
Stanazolol. If confirmed, she faced losing her Olympic medal, and all results and medals earned from the date of the sample in 2012 to 2016.[2] In October 2016, she was stripped of her Olympic medal.[3] Zabolotnaya and the bronze medalist, Iryna Kulesha
, were disqualified and stripped of their medals as well.
References
- ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Svetlana Podobedova". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
- ^ IWF public disclosures
- ^ "9 Olympians, including 6 medallists, caught for Beijing doping". cbc.ca. 26 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
External links
- Svetlana Podobedova at the International Weightlifting Federation
- Svetlana Podobedova at the International Weightlifting Results Project
- Svetlana Podobedova at Olympics.com
- Svetlana Podobedova at Olympic.org (archived)
- Svetlana Podobedova at Olympedia
- London 2012 profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 4 August 2012)
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