Olha Korobka
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Olha Vasylivna Korobka (Template:Langx; born December 7, 1985 Bobrovytsia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian 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.[1]
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 Script error: No such module "convert". and weighing Script error: No such module "convert"., she was the heaviest female competitor at the Games.[2]
Korobka won silver medal as superweight in the 2010 European Championship, at a bodyweight of Script error: No such module "convert".. In February 2012, she was banned for four years, until November 2015, for doping.[3] She had failed a drug test after the 2011 World Weightlifting Championships, where she won three bronze medals.[3]
In 2016, she was stripped of her 2008 Olympic medal after reanalysis of her sample tested positive for steroids.[4]
References
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- ↑ a b Ukraine's Korobka gets four-year doping ban, Kyiv Post (18 February 2012) Template:Webarchive
- ↑ "9 Olympians, including 6 medallists, caught for Beijing doping". cbc.ca. 26 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
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External links
- Template:Webarchive 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 sportswomen