Olha Korobka
| Medal record | ||
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| Women's Weightlifting | ||
Representing Ukraine
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| Olympic Games | ||
| Disqualified | 2008 Beijing | +75 kg |
| World Championships | ||
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2003 Vancouver | +75 kg |
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2006 Santo Domingo | +75 kg |
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2007 Chiang Mai | +75 kg |
| Disqualified | 2011 Paris | +75 kg |
| European Championships | ||
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2006 Władysławowo | +75 kg |
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2007 Strasbourg | +75 kg |
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2008 Lignano Sabbiadoro | +75 kg |
| Disqualified | 2010 Minsk | +75 kg |
Olha Vasylivna Korobka(Ukrainian:Ольга Василівна Коробка;born December 7, 1985Bobrovytsia,Ukrainian SSR,Soviet Union) is aUkrainianweightlifter who was the European record holder in thesnatchwith 133 kg, and in theclean and jerkwith 164 kg.
Career[edit]
Korobka ranked 7th in the women's over 75 kg category at the2004 Summer Olympics.[1]
On April 18, 2008, Korobka won her third straight European championship overall title in the women's over 75 kg category by lifting 277 kg in total (127 kg in the snatch, 150 kg in the clean and jerk).
At the2008 Summer Olympicsshe initially won the silver medal in the +75 kg category, with a total of 277 kg. At a height of 1.81m (5' 11 ") and a weight of 167 kg (368 lbs), she was the heaviest female competitor at the Games.[2]
Korobka won silver medal as superweight in the 2010 European Championship, at a bodyweight of 170 kg. (373 lb.). In February 2012, she was banned for four years fordoping,being suspended until November 2015.[3]She had failed a drugs test after the2011 World Weightlifting Championships,where she won three bronze medals.[3]
In 2016, she was stripped of her 2008 Olympic medal after a retest of her doping sample tested positive for steroids.[4]
References[edit]
- ^"KOROBKA Olha".International Weightlifting Federation. Archived fromthe originalon 2011-05-27.
- ^"Athlete Bio:Olha Korobka".ESPN. Archived fromthe originalon October 24, 2012.
- ^abUkraine's Korobka gets four-year doping ban,Kyiv Post(18 February 2012)Archived21 February 2012 at theWayback Machine
- ^"9 Olympians, including 6 medallists, caught for Beijing doping".cbc.ca. 26 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
External links[edit]
- Athlete Biographyat theWayback Machine(archived August 10, 2008) at beijing2008
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Ukrainian female weightlifters
- Olympic weightlifters for Ukraine
- Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals
- Doping cases in weightlifting
- Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases
- European Weightlifting Championships medalists
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- Sportspeople from Chernihiv Oblast
- 21st-century Ukrainian women