Anatolie Cîrîcu (born 14 September 1988) is a Moldovan weightlifter. Cîrîcu is the champion of the

2012 European Weightlifting Championships The 2012 European Weightlifting Championships was held at Kepez Basket Hall in Antalya, Turkey from 9 April to 15 April 2012. It was the 91st edition of the event. Doping + Doping test: 13 weightlifters (one or multiple prohibited anabolic stero ...

for the 94 kg category. He also participated in the

2011 European Weightlifting Championships The 2011 European Weightlifting Championships was held in Kazan, Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with ...

, where he won the silver medal.

Doping

At the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

he originally won the bronze medal in the men's 94kg category, lifting a total of 407 kg. 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, Cîrîcu 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 ...

. In November 2016, he was stripped of his Olympic medal. He is banned by the IWF until 11 May 2023.

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* 1988 births Living people Moldovan male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters of Moldova European champions in weightlifting Doping cases in weightlifting Moldovan sportspeople in doping cases Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals People from Cahul European Weightlifting Championships medalists 20th-century Moldovan people 21st-century Moldovan people {{Moldova-weightlifting-bio-stub