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Sport
  
Swimming

Name
  
Vitaly Melnikov

Role
  
Swimmer


Vitaly Melnikov (swimmer) Russian swimmer Vitaly Melnikov banned for doping ZwemZa

Born
  
20 March 1990 (age 34) (
1990-03-20
)
Voronezh, Russia

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Vitaly Viktorovich Melnikov (Russian: Виталий Викторович Мельников; born 20 March 1990) is a Russian backstroke swimmer.

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Career

At the 2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships, he won an individual silver medal in the 100 m backstroke and two medley relay gold medals, in the men's and mixed competitions, breaking world records in both medley events. Those results were annulled after a positive doping test of his samples taken during those European Championships. Melnikov was suspended from competitions in April 2014, and banned in March 2015 until 12 December 2015.

References

Vitaly Melnikov (swimmer) Wikipedia