Ota Zaremba (born 22 April 1957) is a Czechoslovak
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 ...
, Olympic champion and world champion. He won gold medal in the heavyweight I class at the
1980 Summer Olympics in
Moscow
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.
After he ended his career, Zaremba admitted he used
doping throughout his career with the acknowledgment of the sport officials and coaches.
Olympijský vítěz Zaremba obvinil trenéra
at iDNES.cz
In 2010 Zaremba entered to the far-right Workers' Party of Social Justice
Workers' Party of Social Justice ( cs, Dělnická strana sociální spravedlnosti) is a Czech political party, often described as the major far-right extremist party in the Czech Republic. The party is not represented in any legislative body in th ...
(DSSS).
References
1957 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Havířov
Czech male weightlifters
Czechoslovak male weightlifters
Weightlifters at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Olympic weightlifters for Czechoslovakia
Olympic gold medalists for Czechoslovakia
Czech sportspeople in doping cases
Doping cases in weightlifting
Olympic medalists in weightlifting
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
Workers' Party of Social Justice politicians
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