Natalya Aleksandrovna Zabolotnaya (russian: Наталья Александровна Заболотная; born 15 August 1985) is a Russian

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 ...

Career

Zabolotnaya competed in the women's 75 kg weight class at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

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and won the silver medal, lifting 272.5 kg in total. The result qualified as a world record, but it was also achieved by

Pawina Thongsuk Pawina Thongsuk (born April 18, 1979 in Sikhoraphum, Surin) is a Thai weightlifter. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she won an Olympic gold medal with 122.5 kg snatching and 272.5 kg total in the 75 kg category. In 2005, ...

, who won the competition. Zabolotnaya won a gold medal in the 75 kg weightclass at the 2010 European Championship. She originally was awarded the silver medal 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 ...

in the women's 75 kg category with a total of 291 kg. This result was an Olympic record, which was also achieved by

Svetlana Podobedova Svetlana Podobedova (russian: Светлана Подобедова; born May 25, 1986, Zima, Irkutsk) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a spo ...

who was awarded a medal the competition by virtue of lighter bodyweight, though Podobedova's medal was also subsequently stripped of her medal due to doping. Zabolotnaya's 131 kg snatch was a (later nullified due to doping-related cheating) Olympic record. In November 2016, Zabolotnaya was stripped of her 2012 Olympic medal after her drug sample tested positive.

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* * * * 1985 births Living people Russian female weightlifters Olympic weightlifters of Russia Olympic silver medalists for Russia Olympic medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics World Weightlifting Championships medalists World record holders in Olympic weightlifting Doping cases in weightlifting Russian sportspeople in doping cases Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals People from Salsk European Weightlifting Championships medalists Sportspeople from Rostov Oblast 21st-century Russian women {{Russia-weightlifting-bio-stub