Mariya Grabovetskaya (born 10 April 1987) is a female

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 lift ...

from

Kokshetau Kokshetau (meaning ''Blueish Mountain'' in Kazakh, kz, Көкшетау, Kökşetau; ; rus, Кокшета́у, p=kokʂɛtaʊ) is a city in northern Kazakhstan and the capital of Akmola Region, which stretches along the southern shore of Lak ...

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

Career

She won the silver medal at the 2007 Junior World Championships, with a total of 277 kg. At the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

she initially won the bronze medal in the +75 kg category, with a total of 270 kg. On 17 November 2016 the

IOC The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...

disqualified her from the 2008 Olympic Games, stripped her Olympic medal and struck her results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of her doping sample from 2008.

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Athlete Biography
at beijing2008 1987 births Living people Sportspeople from Kokshetau People from Kokshetau Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals Kazakhstani female weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters of Kazakhstan Asian Games medalists in weightlifting Weightlifters at the 2006 Asian Games Weightlifters at the 2010 Asian Games Weightlifters at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for Kazakhstan Asian Games bronze medalists for Kazakhstan Doping cases in weightlifting Kazakhstani sportspeople in doping cases {{Kazakhstan-sport-bio-stub Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games 21st-century Kazakhstani women