Nadezhda Alexandrovna Evstyukhina (russian: Надежда Александровна Евстюхина; born 27 May 1988) is a Russian weightlifter.

Career

In the 69 kg category, Evstyukhina won the silver medal at the 2005 Junior World Championships, and the gold medal at the 2006 Junior World Championships. Evstyukhina participated in the women's -75 kg class at the

2006 World Weightlifting Championships The 2006 World Weightlifting Championships were held at the Handball Pavilion and Weightlifting Pavilion Dr. José Joaquín Puello in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The event took place from September 30 to October 7, 2006. Medal summary M ...

and won the silver medal, finishing behind

Cao Lei Cao Lei (; born 24 December 1983 in Qinhuangdao, Hebei) is a Chinese weightlifter. She was born in north China's Hebei Province and was raised in northeastern Heilongjiang Province. Career Cao Lei started weightlifting training at the age of 1 ...

. She snatched 122 kg and

clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ...

ed an additional 145 kg for a total of 267 kg, 1 kg behind winner Cao. At the

2007 World Weightlifting Championships The Royal World Weightlifting Championships 2007 were held at the 700th Anniversary Sports Complex in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The event took place from September 17 to September 26, 2007. Medal summary Men Women Medal table Ranking by Big (Tot ...

she won the bronze medal in the 75 kg category, with a total of 278 kg. She also initially was awarded the bronze medal in the 75 kg category at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

, with a total of 264 kg. She competed 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 ...

, but failed to snatch the initial weight. On 31 August 2016, the International Olympic Committee confirmed that Evstyukhina had been disqualified from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Reanalysis of Evstyukhina's samples from Beijing 2008 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substances

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 ...

(turinabol) and EPO. As a result, her results were expunged, the athlete was disqualified and her bronze medal removed. The fate of her other medals following the 2008 positive sample is to be decided by the IWF.

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