Svetlana Tsarukaeva
Svetlana Tsarukaeva, 2011 WWC
Personal information
Born (1987-12-25) December 25, 1987
Ordzhonikidze, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Country Russia
SportWeightlifting
Event63kg
Coached byKazbek Zoloev
Medal record
Women's Weightlifting
Representing  Russia
Olympic Games
Disqualified 2012 London 63 kg
World Weightlifting Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Paris63 kg
Silver medal – second place 2006 Doha58 kg
Silver medal – second place 2007 Chiang Mai63 kg
Silver medal – second place 2009 Goyang63 kg
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2011 Kazan63 kg
Updated on 07 October 2016.

Svetlana Kaspolatovna Tsarukaeva (Russian: Светлана Касполатовна Царукаева) (born 25 December 1987) is a Russian weightlifter.

Career

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 the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships and won the silver medal, finishing behind Qiu Hongmei. She snatched 108 kg and clean and jerked an additional 125 kg for a total of 233 kg, 4 kg behind winner Qiu.[1]

At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships she won the silver medal in the 63 kg category, with a total of 250 kg.[1]

Tsarukaeva entered the 2008 Summer Olympics as the favourite for the 63 kg event.[2][3]

Tsarukaeva was initially awarded a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's 63 kg event. However, on 27 July 2016, the IWF 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 steroid dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.[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result of retesting samples she had been disqualified from the 2012 Olympics for a drug violation, and her silver medal withdrawn.[5]

Achievements

2006 World Weightlifting Championships, -58 kg
2007 World Weightlifting Championships, -63 kg

References

  1. 1 2 3 "TSARUKAEVA Svetlana". International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011.
  2. ↑ "Russian weightlifting favourite hits the wall", ABC, August 12, 2008
  3. ↑ "Defeat, Then Agony", The New York Times, August 12, 2008
  4. ↑ "Eleven London 2012 weightlifters fail doping tests". Reuters. 27 July 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "IOC sanctions three athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 and London 2012". IOC. 5 April 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
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