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Olga Zubova (born 9 December 1993) is a Russian weightlifter.
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Career
After coming back from a 2 year suspension and not having been defeated for gold in any competition until the World Weightlifting Championships in Houston, USA 2015, this immensely talented athlete was the prime candidate to lead the Russian women's 75kg class for gold in the 2016 Olympics until she was suspended for drug violations once again.
She competed in the 2013 World Weightlifting Championships – Women's 75 kg convincing winning the Gold medal but then got disqualified for using a banned substance, Clomiphene, in competition that resulted in her 1st suspension
She returned to competition at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships in Houston, Texas and took bronze in women's 75 kg, where she failed a doping control again.
In May 2016, Olga Zubova has been banned for eight years for doping.