Iryna Kulesha
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Full name | Iryna Mikhailovna Kulesha | |||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 26 June 1986[1] Brest, Belarus | (age 35)|||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 4 in (163 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 165 lb (75 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Iryna Mikhailauna Kulesha (Belarusian: Ірына Міхайлаўна Кулеша; born 26 June 1986 in Brest, Belarus or in Oberovshina[1]) is a Belarusian weightlifter.
Career[]
Kulesha originally won an Olympic bronze medal in the under 75 kg weight category at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[2][3] She was coached by Viktor Shilay.[1] On 21 November 2016, the IOC disqualified six medal winners in weightlifting for failing doping tests at the 2012 Games, including Kulesha, who was stripped of her medal.[4]
Four days earlier, on 17 November 2016, the IOC had disqualified Kulesha from the 2008 Olympic Games and struck her results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of her doping sample from 2008.[5]
References[]
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- ^ a b c Iryna Kulesha - Weightlifting - Olympic Athlete Archived 2012-08-01 at the Wayback Machine. London 2012. Retrieved on 2013-01-25.
- ^ Women's 75kg - Olympic Weightlifting Archived 2012-12-09 at archive.today. London 2012. Retrieved on 2013-01-25.
- ^ Irina Kulesha Archived 2012-12-13 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
- ^ "IOC sanctions 12 athletes for failing anti-doping test at London 2012". International Olympic Committee. 21 Nov 2016. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
- ^ "IOC sanctions 16 athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008". IOC. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
Categories:
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Belarusian female weightlifters
- Olympic weightlifters of Belarus
- Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals
- Doping cases in weightlifting
- Belarusian sportspeople in doping cases
- People from Brest, Belarus
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists