Caroline Pileggi (born 12 December 1977) is an Australian weightlifter. She competed in the

2002 Commonwealth Games The 2002 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XVII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Manchester 2002 were held in Manchester, England, from 25 July to 4 August, 2002. The 2002 Games were to be hosted in the United Kingdom to coin ...

in Manchester. Pileggi won three medals in the over 75 kg division at the

in Manchester, taking the gold in the snatch event and two silvers in the

clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ...

and overall events.Pileggi lifts Australia to gold
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 4 August 2002. On 3 June 2004, Pileggi was involved in an incident with two drug testers at a training camp in

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. The testers, working on behalf of the Australian Sports Drug Agency, approached Pileggi while she was training at a gym, after receiving information that she would "not be very interested in undergoing a drug test". The testers claimed to an Administrative Appeals tribunal in the Federal Court that Pileggi gave them a false name and then attempted to flee, nearly hitting them with her car in the process. Pileggi claimed that the testers did not identify themselves and she had fled in fear as they pursued her.Reid, David
Olympic weightlifter fled from Fiji gym, tribunal told
'' The Sydney Morning Herald'', 16 July 2004. Pileggi's appeal against the charge of refusing a drug test was unsuccessful, and she was excluded from the Australian team at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

in Athens. She was also required to pay ASDA's court costs, and faced a two-year ban from weightlifting as mandated by the

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and international rules.End of the road to Athens for Pileggi
'' The Sydney Morning Herald'', 23 July 2004.

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Portrait of Caroline Pileggi in the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
1977 births Living people Australian female weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Doping cases in weightlifting Australian sportspeople in doping cases Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Doping cases in Australian weightlifting Australian people of Italian descent Sportspeople of Italian descent Australian people of Calabrian descent Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting 20th-century Australian women 21st-century Australian women Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games {{Australia-weightlifting-bio-stub