Aleksey Vladimirovich Lovchev (russian: Алексе́й Влади́мирович Ло́вчев; born 13 June 1989) is a Russian
weightlifter
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.
Career
He competed at the
2013 World Championships in the
Men's +105 kg, winning the bronze medal and the European Championships 2014, winning the gold medal in the
Snatch,
Clean and Jerk
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and total.
In the
2015 World Championships he competed in the
+105kg category, winning gold medals in the Snatch, Clean and Jerk, and Total, with a 211 kg Snatch and 264 kg
world record
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Clean and Jerk for a world record 475 kg total. However, Lovchev failed a doping test and was stripped of the World Championship gold medal and world records.
In May 2016, Lovchev was banned for four years after failing A and B-samples: he tested positive for
ipamorelin
Ipamorelin ( INN) (developmental code name NNC 26-0161) is a peptide selective agonist of the ghrelin/growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHS) and a growth hormone secretagogue. It is a pentapeptide with the amino acid sequence Aib-His-D-2-Na ...
, a hormone growth drug. He contested this decision at
Court of Arbitration for Sport
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, but his appeal was dismissed.
Major results
See also
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Hossein Rezazadeh
Hossein Rezazadeh ( fa, حسین رضازاده, born 12 May 1978) is an Iranian politician and retired weightlifter. Rezazadeh is a two-time Olympic champion, four-time World Weightlifting champion, and five-time Asian champion. Rezazadeh has w ...
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1989 births
Living people
Russian male weightlifters
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
Russian sportspeople in doping cases
Doping cases in weightlifting
Universiade medalists in weightlifting
Universiade bronze medalists for Russia
European Weightlifting Championships medalists
Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade
20th-century Russian people
21st-century Russian people
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