Zalina Marghieva (russian: Залина Сослановна Маргиева; born 5 February 1988) is a female

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er who competes for

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. Born in Russia, she is the sister of Marina Marghieva and

Serghei Marghiev Serghei Marghiev (russian: Маргиев, Сергей Сосланович; born 6 November 1992) is a Moldovan athlete specialising in the hammer throw. He competed for Moldova at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Born in Russia, he is the younger bro ...

, and is coached by her father Soslan. As a junior, she finished fifth at the 2005 World Youth Championships, fourth at the 2006 World Junior Championships and fifth at the 2007 European Junior Championships. She then competed at the

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without reaching the final. At the 2009 European U23 Championships she won the gold medal. She threw a personal best of 71.56 metres in January 2009 in Chişinău to break the national record. She improved this further at the 2011 national winter throws meeting in Chişinău, winning the event with a mark of 72.74 m.

Doping

Similarly to her sister, Marina, she served a two-year ban from athletics after testing positive for prohibited substances

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and stanozolol back in 2009. She resumed competition when her ineligibility ended on 23 July 2015.IAAF list of athletes sanctioned for doping.
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