Nastassia Novikava ( be, Настасся Новікава) (born 16 November 1981 in
Zhodzina,
Byelorussian SSR) is a world championship winning
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 ...
from
Belarus
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.
Career
At the
2004 Summer Olympics Novikava ranked fifth in the 53 kg class.
At the
2007 World Weightlifting Championships she won the silver medal in the 53 kg class, lifting a total of 213 kg.
She initially won the bronze medal in the
women's 53 kg event at the
2008 Summer Olympics.
After 2008, Novikava moved up to the -58 kg category.
She won the 2010 European Championship with a personal best of 238 kg. In 2011, she won the
world championship
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
with a total of 237 kg.
At the
2012 Summer Olympics, she finished 7th with a total of 230 kg.
In 2016, she was stripped of her 2008 Olympic medal after a retest of her doping sample tested positive for steroids.
"9 Olympians, including 6 medallists, caught for Beijing doping"
cbc.ca. 26 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
Notes and references
External links
Athlete bio at official Olympics site
1981 births
Living people
People from Zhodzina
Belarusian female weightlifters
Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic weightlifters of Belarus
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
Belarusian sportspeople in doping cases
Doping cases in weightlifting
Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals
European Weightlifting Championships medalists
Sportspeople from Minsk Region
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