Olha Vasylivna Korobka ( uk, Ольга Василівна Коробка; born December 7, 1985
Bobrovytsia
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weightlifter who was the European record holder in the
snatch with 133 kg, and in the
clean and jerk with 164 kg.
Career
Korobka ranked 7th in the women's over 75 kg category at the
2004 Summer Olympics.
On April 18, 2008, Korobka won her third straight European championship overall title in the women's over 75 kg category by lifting 277 kg in total (127 kg in the snatch, 150 kg in the clean and jerk).
At the
2008 Summer Olympics she initially won the silver medal in the +75 kg category, with a total of 277 kg. At a height of 1.81m (5' 11") and a weight of 167 kg (368 lbs), she was the heaviest female competitor at the Games.
Korobka won silver medal as superweight in the 2010 European Championship, at a bodyweight of 170 kg. (373 lb.). In February 2012, she was banned for four years for
doping, being suspended until November 2015.
[Ukraine's Korobka gets four-year doping ban]
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History
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(18 February 2012) She had failed a drugs test after the
2011 World Weightlifting Championships
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Medal summary Men
Women
Medal table
Ranking by Big (Total result) medals
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, where she won three bronze medals.
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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.
References
External links
* at beijing2008
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1985 births
Living people
Ukrainian female weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters for Ukraine
Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals
Doping cases in weightlifting
Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases
European Weightlifting Championships medalists
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
Sportspeople from Chernihiv Oblast
21st-century Ukrainian women