Svetlana Podobedova (russian: Светлана Подобедова; born May 25, 1986, Zima, Irkutsk) is a

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...

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Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

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 ...

Career

Podobedova was awarded the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 75 kg category with a total of 291 kg. Her 161 kg Clean and jerk was an Olympic record and her 291 kg total tied the Olympic record set only minutes before by Natalia Zabolotnaya. She was awarded the medal by virtue of lighter bodyweight.Svetlana Podobedova
sports-reference.com In June 2016, following the Russian doping scandal, it was announced by the IWF that retests of the samples taken from the 2012 Olympics indicated that Podobedova had tested positive for prohibited substances, namely Stanazolol. If confirmed, she faced losing her Olympic medal, and all results and medals earned from the date of the sample in 2012 to 2016. In October 2016, she was stripped of her Olympic medal."9 Olympians, including 6 medallists, caught for Beijing doping"
cbc.ca. 26 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016. Zabolotnaya and the bronze medalist, Iryna Kulesha, were disqualified and stripped of their medals as well.

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* * * * 1986 births Living people Russian female weightlifters Kazakhstani female weightlifters World record setters in weightlifting Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters for Kazakhstan World Weightlifting Championships medalists Asian Games gold medalists for Kazakhstan Asian Games medalists in weightlifting Weightlifters at the 2010 Asian Games Doping cases in weightlifting Kazakhstani sportspeople in doping cases Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals Kazakhstani people of Russian descent Russian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan People from Irkutsk Oblast Russian emigrants to Kazakhstan Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games European Weightlifting Championships medalists Sportspeople from Irkutsk Oblast {{Russia-weightlifting-bio-stub