Maryna Ivanauna Shkermankova ( be, Марына Іванаўна Шкерманкова; born 9 April 1990 in Hlybokaye,

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by ...

) is a

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 ...

representing

. She initially won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the – 69 kg category. In 2016, she was stripped of her Olympic medal after retests of her drug sample tested positive for the steroids

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and

turinabol 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 (dehyd ...

.Payne, Marissa
"Four Olympic weightlifters stripped of medals from London 2012"
washingtonpost.com. 27 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.

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