Svetlana Tsarukayeva

Svetlana Kaspolatovna Tsarukaeva (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.

Tsarukaeva entered the 2008 Summer Olympics as the favourite for the 63 kg event.

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. 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result of retesting samples she had been disqualified from the 2012 Olympics for a drug violation, and her silver medal withdrawn.

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