Nastassia Novikava
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Born | 16 November 1981 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 58kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Viktor Shilay | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 27 October 2016 |
Nastassia Novikava (Belarusian: Настасся Новікава) (born 16 November 1981 in Zhodzina, Byelorussian SSR) is a world championship winning weightlifter from Belarus.
Career
[edit]At the 2004 Summer Olympics Novikava ranked fifth in the 53 kg class.[1] At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships she won the silver medal in the 53 kg class, lifting a total of 213 kg.[1]
She initially won the bronze medal in the women's 53 kg event at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[2]
After 2008, Novikava moved up to the -58 kg category.
She won the 2010 European Championship with a personal best of 238 kg. In 2011, she won the world championship with a total of 237 kg.[3]
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished 7th with a total of 230 kg.[4]
In 2016, she was stripped of her 2008 Olympic medal after a retest of her doping sample tested positive for steroids.[5]
Notes and references
[edit]- ^ a b "NOVIKAVA Nastassia". International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 2011-05-27.
- ^ "NOVIKAVA Nasstasia". International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 2011-05-27.
- ^ "2011 World Championship Results" (PDF). www.iwf.net. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ^ "London 2012 - Weightlifting - Women's -58 kg". www.sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 9 October 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ^ "9 Olympians, including 6 medallists, caught for Beijing doping". cbc.ca. 26 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
External links
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- 1981 births
- Living people
- People from Zhodzina
- Belarusian female weightlifters
- Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic weightlifters for Belarus
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- Belarusian sportspeople in doping cases
- Doping cases in weightlifting
- Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals
- European Weightlifting Championships medalists
- Sportspeople from Minsk Region
- European weightlifting biography stubs
- Belarusian sportspeople stubs