Iryna Kulesha
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Belarusian weightlifter
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| Full name | Iryna Mikhailovna Kulesha | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Belarus | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 June 1986 (1986年06月26日) (age 38)[1] Brest, Belarus | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (163 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 165 lb (75 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Iryna Mikhailauna Kulesha (Belarusian: Ірына Міхайлаўна Кулеша, born 26 June 1986 in Brest, Belarus or in Oberovshina)[1] is a Belarusian weightlifter.
Career
[edit ]Kulesha originally won an Olympic bronze medal in the under 75 kg weight category at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[2] [3] She was coached by Viktor Shilay.[1] On 21 November 2016, the IOC disqualified six medal winners in weightlifting for failing doping tests at the 2012 Games, including Kulesha, who was stripped of her medal.[4]
Four days earlier, on 17 November 2016, the IOC had disqualified Kulesha from the 2008 Olympic Games and struck her results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of her doping sample from 2008.[5]
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Iryna Kulesha .
- ^ a b c Iryna Kulesha - Weightlifting - Olympic Athlete Archived 2012年08月01日 at the Wayback Machine. London 2012. Retrieved on 2013年01月25日.
- ^ Women's 75kg - Olympic Weightlifting Archived 2012年12月09日 at archive.today. London 2012. Retrieved on 2013年01月25日.
- ^ Irina Kulesha Archived 2012年12月13日 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
- ^ "IOC sanctions 12 athletes for failing anti-doping test at London 2012". International Olympic Committee. 21 Nov 2016. Retrieved 2016年11月21日.
- ^ "IOC sanctions 16 athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008". IOC . Retrieved 17 November 2016.
Categories:
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Belarusian female weightlifters
- Olympic weightlifters for Belarus
- Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals
- Doping cases in weightlifting
- Belarusian sportspeople in doping cases
- Sportspeople from Brest, Belarus
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- 21st-century Belarusian sportswomen