Oleksandr Bahach ( uk, Олександр Багач) born 21 November 1966 in village of
Matusiv) is a former
Ukrainian shot putter, an athlete of the
Central Sports Club of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Central Sports Club of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ( uk, Центральний Спортивний Клуб Збройних Сил України, transliteration: ''Tsentralnyi Sportyvnyi Klub Zbroinykh Syl Ukrayiny'') or CSK ZSU ( uk, ЦСК ...
.
During his career he won bronze medals at the Olympic Games and
World Championships
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. Having originally won the gold medal at the
1997 World Championships, he failed a drug test for
ephedrine
Ephedrine is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is often used to prevent low blood pressure during anesthesia. It has also been used for asthma, narcolepsy, and obesity but is not the preferred treatment. It is of unclear benefit in ...
and lost the medal. He had previously served a two-year suspension after testing positive for testosterone in 1989.
Career
*Summer Olympic Games:
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1996 Atlanta - bronze
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World Championships
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:
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1993 Stuttgart - bronze
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1999 Seville - bronze
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European Championships:
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1994 Helsinki - bronze
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1998 Budapest - gold
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European Indoor Championships:
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1992 Genoa - gold
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1994 Paris - gold
See also
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List of doping cases in sport
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Sporting Heroes
1966 births
Living people
Armed Forces sports society (Ukraine) athletes
Soviet male shot putters
Ukrainian male shot putters
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Ukraine
Olympic bronze medalists for Ukraine
Doping cases in athletics
Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases
World Athletics Championships medalists
European Athletics Championships medalists
European champions for Ukraine
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes stripped of World Athletics Championships medals
World Athletics Indoor Championships winners
Sportspeople from Cherkasy Oblast
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