Aleksandr Konstantinovich Ivanov (russian: Александр Константинович Иванов; born July 22, 1989) is a Russian
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 ...
.
Prior to the 2012 London Summer Olympics, his best result was 403 kg (185 snatch + 218 clean and jerk achieved in Antalya 2010).
Doping
He originally was awarded the silver medal at the
2012 Summer Olympics in the
men's 94 kg category with a total of 409 kg (185 snatch + 224 clean and jerk). On 27 July 2016, the
IWF reported that, in 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 ...
's second wave of doping re-sampling, Ivanov had tested positive for the steroid
dehydrochlormethyltestosterone
Chlorodehydromethyltestosterone (CDMT; brand name Oral Turinabol), also known as 4-chloro-17β-hydroxy17α-methylandrosta-1,4-dien-3-one, is an anabolic–androgenic steroid (AAS). It is the 4-chloro-substituted derivative of metandienone (dehy ...
. On 14 September 2016, Ivanov was stripped of his Olympic silver medal.
References
External links
the-sports.org
1989 births
Living people
Russian male weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters of Russia
Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
Doping cases in weightlifting
Russian sportspeople in doping cases
Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals
Universiade medalists in weightlifting
Universiade gold medalists for Russia
Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
20th-century Russian people
21st-century Russian people
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