Sergey Anatolyevich Fedorovtsev (russian: Сергей Анатольевич Федоровцев, born 31 January 1980) is a Russian

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Career

Competing in quadruple sculls, he won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics and the European title in 2011 and 2015. His teams placed seventh and eighth at the 2008 and 2012 Games, respectively. He was disqualified from competing at the 2016 Olympics after a positive out-of-competition drug test (

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), and subsequently given a 4-year ban.

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* 1980 births Russian male rowers Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers of Russia Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in rowing Olympic gold medalists for Russia Doping cases in rowing Russian sportspeople in doping cases Sportspeople from Rostov-on-Don Living people European Rowing Championships medalists {{Russia-rowing-bio-stub