Iryna Mykhailivna Dekha ( uk, Ірина Михайлівна Деха, born May 14, 1996 in
Kharkiv
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weightlifter. She is a two-time Olympian and
2016
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,
2021
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and
2022 European champion.
Career
Dekha started her trainings while studying at the Professional Sports College Kharkiv which graduates were, among others,
Oleksiy Torokhtiy,
Vanda Maslovska,
Oleksandr Likhvald
Oleksandr Anatoliyovych Likhvald ( ua, Олександр Анатолійович Ліхвальд; born September 9, 1978) is a retired male weightlifter from Ukraine. He competed for his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the men's b ...
,
Kamila Konotop,
Viktoriya Shaimardanova. She was disqualified for two years at the very beginning of her professional career for doping violations, namely using
stanozol
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.
Her international career after doping ban was resumed in 2015. She showed high performances in junior age, winning several medals, and managed to qualify for the national team. Her first senior championships was
2015 European Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia, where she finished 8th, but next year she would become European champion.
Dekha competed for Ukraine at the
2016 Summer Olympics
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. She lifted in total 247 kg and finished 5th.
2017 European Championships in Split, Norway, was not successful for Dekha since she failed to lift any weight in clear and jerk. Later that year, she became champion of the
2017 Summer Universiade
The 2017 Summer Universiade (), officially known as the XXIX Summer Universiade ( zh, t=第二十九屆夏季世界大學運動會, p=Dì èrshíjiǔ jiè xiàjì shìjiè dàxué yùndònghuì) and commonly called Taipei 2017 ( zh, t=台北2 ...
where she won the competition in the
−90 kg category.
In 2018, Dekha debuted at the
World Championships and finished 6th in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. In 2019, she was 5th.
Dekha was one of two Ukrainian weightlifters at the
2020 Summer Olympics
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in Tokyo, Japan. She went to Tokyo as reigning European champion after winning the title at the
2021 European Championships in Moscow, Russia. Though she finished 2nd in snatch at the Olympics, she failed to lift any weight in clear and jerk.
Dekha changed her weight category to 81 kg and won her third European title in 2022 in Tirana, Albania, where she lifted in total 253 kg and surpassed the silver medalist and her team fellow
Alina Marushchak by 18 kg.
Major results
References
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1996 births
Living people
Ukrainian female weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters of Ukraine
Weightlifters at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Universiade gold medalists for Ukraine
Universiade medalists in weightlifting
Sportspeople from Kharkiv
Doping cases in weightlifting
Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases
European Weightlifting Championships medalists
21st-century Ukrainian women