Boyanka Kostova ( bg, Боянка Костова, born 10 May 1993) is a Bulgarian-born

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Azerbaijani weightlifter. She competed at the

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in the women's 58 kg, finishing in fifth place.

Career

In June 2016, following the Russian doping scandal, it was announced by IWF that retests of the samples taken from the 2012 Olympics indicated that Kostova had tested positive for prohibited substances, namely

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and

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, meaning she lost all results and medals earned from the date of the sample in 2012 to 2016. In November 2016 the IOC Disciplinary Commission disqualified Kostova from the 2012 Olympic Games. In May 2021, shortly after the European Championships in which she took gold, Kostova tested positive for the banned substance

again. In October 2021, she was banned for eight years as it was her second doping violation. In the beginning of 2022 she was arrested for drug traffic in Bulgaria. She was sentenced to 3 years of prison, but her sentence was shorten until November 2022 in order to start a coaching career and study to NSA under Lachezar Kishkilov, who was her coach, surveillance. Световна шампионка в Сливенския затвор за разпространение на наркотици
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In pop culture

A trap musical band from Galicia, Spain, took its name from the athlete.

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* Azerbaijani female weightlifters Living people 21st-century Bulgarian criminals Olympic weightlifters for Azerbaijan Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Bulgarian emigrants to Azerbaijan World Weightlifting Championships medalists Naturalized citizens of Azerbaijan Azerbaijani people of Bulgarian descent Weightlifters at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Bulgarian female weightlifters 1993 births Azerbaijani sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in weightlifting Youth Olympic gold medalists for Bulgaria European Weightlifting Championships medalists {{Azerbaijan-weightlifting-bio-stub