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Belarusian weightlifter
Iryna Kulesha
Kulesha in 2012
Personal information
Full nameIryna Mikhailovna Kulesha
NationalityBelarus
Born26 June 1986 (1986-06-26) (age 38)
Brest, Belarus
Height5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Weight165 lb (75 kg)
Medal record
Women's Weightlifting
Representing  Belarus
Olympic Games
Disqualified 2012 London – 75 kg
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Paris 75 kg (snatch)

Iryna Mikhailauna Kulesha (Belarusian: Ірына Міхайлаўна Кулеша, born 26 June 1986 in Brest, Belarus or in Oberovshina) is a Belarusian weightlifter.

Career

Kulesha originally won an Olympic bronze medal in the under 75 kg weight category at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was coached by Viktor Shilay. 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.

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.

References

  1. ^ Iryna Kulesha - Weightlifting - Olympic Athlete Archived 2012-08-01 at the Wayback Machine. London 2012. Retrieved on 2013-01-25.
  2. Women's 75kg - Olympic Weightlifting Archived 2012-12-09 at archive.today. London 2012. Retrieved on 2013-01-25.
  3. Irina Kulesha Archived 2012-12-13 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
  4. "IOC sanctions 12 athletes for failing anti-doping test at London 2012". International Olympic Committee. 21 Nov 2016. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
  5. "IOC sanctions 16 athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008". IOC. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
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