Alexandru Bratan (born 23 August 1977) is a male

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lif ...

from

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. He twice competed for his native country at the

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: 2000 and 2004. He is best known for winning the silver medal in the men's heavyweight division (– 105 kg) at the 2005 World Weightlifting Championships. His brother is Eugen Bratan. In 2006 the

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(IWF) banned Alexandru Bratan for life, for the second doping violation.

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* 1977 births Living people Moldovan male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters of Moldova Doping cases in weightlifting Moldovan sportspeople in doping cases Sportspeople banned for life European Weightlifting Championships medalists World Weightlifting Championships medalists 20th-century Moldovan people 21st-century Moldovan people {{Moldova-weightlifting-bio-stub