Daniel Godelli (born January 10, 1992, in Peqin) is an Albanian weightlifter, and Olympian competing in the 69 kg and 77 kg categories until 2018 and 81 kg starting in 2018 after the

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reorganized the categories. He has won various medals, most notably the gold medal at the 2014 World Championship in

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, but his results at Almaty were later disqualified due to testing positive for doping.

Career

The most notable achievement during Godelli's youth activities was winning the gold medal on the World Junior Championships in 2011. In this year, also he won bronze medal at

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in Kazan. In 2013 he won a silver (big) medal in the 2013 European Weightlifting Championships in

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, Albania. He had silver in Snatch and gold in Clean&Jerk. In 2014 he repeated himself with a silver (big) medal, but in the 77 kg category, and lost the gold medal to

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only for a slightly heavier body weight, as he had lifted the same combined weight as Qerimaj, 349 kg. He initially won a gold medal at the

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in the 77 kg category, and in doing so became Albania's first World Champion. The results were later disqualified as Godelli failed an anti-doping test for the steroid

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, as a result he was banned from competition until December 10 2016.

Major results

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* 1992 births Living people Albanian male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Albania Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Elbasan {{Albania-weightlifting-bio-stub Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Albania Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in weightlifting European Weightlifting Championships medalists World Weightlifting Championships medalists 21st-century Albanian people