![]() Svetlana Tsarukaeva, 2011 WWC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1987-12-25)December 25, 1987 (age 37) Ordzhonikidze,Russian SFSR,Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 63kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Kazbek Zoloev | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 07 October 2016 |
Svetlana Kaspolatovna Tsarukaeva (Russian:Светлана Касполатовна Царукаева) (born 25 December 1987) is a Russianweightlifter.
She won the 2006 Women's Junior World Championships in the 58 kg category, with a total of 231 kg.[1]
Tsarukaeva participated in the women's -58 kg category at the2006 World Weightlifting Championships and won the silver medal, finishing behindQiu Hongmei. Shesnatched 108 kg andclean and jerked an additional 125 kg for a total of 233 kg, 4 kg behind winner Qiu.[1]
At the2007 World Weightlifting Championships she won the silver medal in the 63 kg category, with a total of 250 kg.[1]
Tsarukaeva entered the2008 Summer Olympics as the favourite for the 63 kg event.[2][3]
Tsarukaeva was initially awarded a silver medal at the2012 Summer Olympics in theWomen's 63 kg event. However, on 27 July 2016, theIWF reported that, in the IOC's second wave of re-sampling for doping violations at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tsarukayeva had tested positive for the steroiddehydrochlormethyltestosterone.[4] If confirmed, she would be stripped of the Olympic medal. The IWF has provisionally suspended her. On 5 April 2017 it was announced that as a result of retesting samples she had been disqualified from the 2012 Olympics for a drug violation, and her silver medal withdrawn.[5]
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