Milka Maneva (

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: Милка Манева; born 7 June 1985 in

Smolyan Smolyan ( bg, Смолян) List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, is a town and ski resort in the south of Bulgaria near the border with Greece. It is the administrative and industrial centre of the homonymous Smolyan Province. The town is built ...

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) 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 lift ...

. She won the silver medal in the Women's 63 kg category 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 ...

. She originally finished fifth, but was promoted to second after Maiya Maneza, Svetlana Tsarukayeva, and

Sibel Şimşek Sibel Şimşek (; born October 10, 1984, in Osmancık Çorum, Turkey) is a European champion Turkish people, Turkish weightlifter competing in the Women's 63 kg division. She is tall and weighs . Şimşek is a member of the Kocaeli Büyü ...

were all disqualified. Maneva also qualified for the

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but she was one of eleven Bulgarian weightlifters to test positive for a banned

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two months prior to the games. Bulgaria withdrew its whole team from the Olympic competition and Maneva received a four-year ban from competition.

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