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Name
  
Mariya Grabovetskaya


Role
  
Olympic athlete

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Olympic medals
  
Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's +75 kg

Mariya Grabovetskaya (born April 10, 1987) is a female weightlifter from Kazakhstan.

Career

She won the silver medal at the 2007 Junior World Championships, with a total of 277 kg.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics she initially won the bronze medal in the +75 kg category, with a total of 270 kg. On 17 November 2016 the IOC disqualified her from the 2008 Olympic Games, stripped her Olympic medal and struck her results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of her doping sample from 2008.

References

Mariya Grabovetskaya Wikipedia