Vladimir Vladimirovich Sedov ( kk, Владимир Владимирович Седов; born 2 March 1988 in

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) is a

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Career

He won a gold medal for the 94 kg class at the 2009 World Weightlifting Championships in

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, with a total of 402 kg, defeating Azerbaijan's

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by fifteen kilograms. Sedov represented

at the

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, where he competed for the men's light heavyweight class (85 kg). During the competition, he successfully lifted 180 kg in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted 200 kg in the two-part, shoulder-to-overhead

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 ...

, for a total of 380 kg. Sedov, however, narrowly lost the Olympic medal to Armenia's

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by three kilograms short of his record from the clean and jerk, finishing the entire event in fourth place. On 17 November 2016 the

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disqualified him from the 2008 Olympic Games and struck his results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of his doping sample from 2008. In his last major international competition, Sedov snatched 175 kg and Clean and Jerked 211 kg for a 386 kg total and Gold medal at the 2016 Asian Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Doping

Sedov served a two-year ban for doping from 2006. The sanction ended 18 May 2008.International Weightlifting Federation
Sanctioned athletes
, iwf.net. Retrieved 16 November 2014 In 2016 he was disqualified from the 2008 Olympic Games for failing a doping re-test.

References

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* * * * * 1988 births Doping cases in weightlifting Kazakhstani sportspeople in doping cases Kazakhstani male weightlifters Living people Olympic weightlifters of Kazakhstan People from Almaty Region Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics World Weightlifting Championships medalists {{Kazakhstan-weightlifting-bio-stub