Rio Olympics men's weightlifting. Why weightlifting is a disgrace for the Olympics and Russia. Weightlifting competition calendar

Russian track and field athletes now have comrades in misfortune. Representatives of weightlifting are also unlikely to be able to compete at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The reason is the same as that of the “queen of sports” - big problems with doping.

Alarming news arrived on Wednesday evening from Tbilisi, where the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) congress is taking place. On the first day of the event, which was entirely dedicated to the problems of doping, the executive committee made a number of important decisions.

There are two news for the Russian team - bad and very bad. Let's start with the first one. The IWF has officially redistributed the Olympic quotas that were provided to countries following the results of the 2015 World Championships. Then, let us remind you, Russian athletes initially received the right to go to Rio with the largest possible team of six men and four girls.

However, it soon became known that four Russians had failed doping tests, whose results influenced the distribution of quotas. Received disqualifications, and. Six months later, the IWF decided to take away from Russia one Olympic ticket for each gender. At best, five men and three girls will now go to Rio.

But there is also very bad news. The Executive Committee decided that if representatives of any country failed at least three doping tests based on the results of the recent re-examination of samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, then they will face a one-year disqualification and automatic entry into the Rio Olympics.

Three national teams fall under this article: Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Russian athletes violated anti-doping rules at least three times. Marina Shainova and Nadezhda Estyukhina tested positive in 2008, as well as Apti in 2012. All of them were found to have various anabolic steroids. All three should lose their Olympic medals - Shainov and Aukhadov silver, and Evstyukhin bronze.

Belarusians also have three positive tests - Marina Shkermankova and. All were caught in 2012. Kazakhstan has the saddest situation - the country should lose five gold medals at once, which were won at both Olympics, as well as Zulfiya Chinshaylo and, who won in London.

However, there is still a small hope that Russian weightlifters will still go to Rio, and the IWF itself admits this. First of all, it is necessary to fully prove that all three athletes used prohibited substances.

To do this, both sample “A” and sample “B” must show a positive result. In the case of Shainova and Evstyukhina, the clarity is already complete - anabolic steroids were found in both of their analyzes. The results of the autopsy of Aukhadov’s “B” sample are still unknown. There is a tiny hope that it will give a negative result, and then the Russian team will be carried away.

There is a precedent - an athlete and a rower escaped with fright based on the results of a recheck of Beijing samples. Their “A” samples turned out to be positive, and their “B” tests were negative.

However, if it is proven that Aukhadov, the 2013 world champion and bronze medalist of the last world championship, took steroids, then the Russian weightlifting team will remain at home for the entire coming year. The probability of this is very high, and the end to this matter will be reached in the coming days. For example, it is already known that Ilyin’s “B” sample, taken in London, gave a positive result. Aukhadov should also be checked soon.

Track and field athletes also found themselves in a similar difficult situation. On June 17, the Council of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) upheld the ban on the participation of Russians in international competitions, including the Olympic Games.

However, some subjects of the “queen of sports” still have hope of getting to Rio. On June 21, the IAAF announced that the IAAF may make an exception for individual athletes who have never violated the rules and have undergone enhanced testing.

The IWF retains the same right to selective disqualification. However, there is hardly any hope that individual Russian contenders for Olympic medals, such as world champions and Russian champions, will be able to take advantage of this. The IWF has repeatedly disqualified entire countries in the past without making any exceptions.

By the way, separately, following the results of the first day of the congress, IWF members condemned the appointment of the President of the Russian Weightlifting Federation Sergei Syrtsov to the post of head of the anti-doping committee in the European Weightlifting Federation. Over the past six years that he has been in charge of Russian weightlifting, the number of athletes caught doping is growing almost every month, and it is strange that they were not removed from the Olympics even earlier, and there is still a faint hope for a different outcome.

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The official decision to suspend domestic weightlifters was published on the IWF website. The verdict on imposing such a harsh sanction was made by the executive council of the federation.

The IWF noted that eight Russian weightlifters were supposed to go to Rio, but two of them, Tatyana Kashirina and Anastasia Romanova, were excluded from the application by the Russian Olympic Committee after it stated that domestic athletes with a doping history would not be able to compete participation in the Olympic Games 2016.

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The IWF also recalled that seven Russian weightlifting medalists at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games were found to have prohibited substances in their blood.

“To date, seven positive doping samples have been detected in Russian weightlifters, studied as a result of the combined process of re-checking doping samples from the London and Beijing Games, while the second wave of re-checks of the 2008 Olympic Games has not yet been completed and is not at the stage where names and countries can be publicly disclosed,” the statement said.

The IWF specifically noted that they were forced to suspend Russia also in order not to “spoil the reputation of the sport.”

“The integrity of weightlifting as a sport has been violated many times and at various levels by representatives of Russia. Therefore, it was decided to apply appropriate sanctions to protect our sport,” the IWF says on its website.

It is reported that the quotas given to domestic representatives will be distributed among weightlifters from Albania, Georgia, Moldova, Belgium, Croatia, El Salvador, Mongolia and Serbia.

In Russia, the IWF decision was met, to put it mildly, with misunderstanding. Thus, the former head coach of the country's weightlifting team, David Rigert, accused the international federation of “banditry.”

“This is absolutely unfair. This is real banditry. They feel their impunity.

Yes, we sinned, but not enough to exclude us from the Olympics. Moreover, it is not only our country that has problems.

For a whole generation of athletes, this is it, the finish line. Some will end their careers, others may not survive. Somewhere on the ground there will be not very smart people pressing from all sides,” R-Sport quotes Rigert.

Let us note that in addition to London silver medalist Kashirina and World Championship medalist Romanova, London bronze medalist Ruslan Albegov, whose doping test from the 2012 Olympics turned out to be positive, lost his chance to go to the Olympic Games.

Information about this was actually a death sentence for the Russian weightlifting team, because earlier the IWF stated that the Russian Weightlifting Federation (FTAR), as well as other federations, faces a one-year disqualification if at least three samples from the 2008 and 2012 Games turn out to be positive after recheck.

At that time, positive doping tests “B” were detected in just three Russians: Nadezhda Evstyukhina, Marina Shainova and Apti Aukhadov.

A little later, tests from the 2012 Olympics yielded positive results for four more domestic weightlifters: Natalya Zabolotnaya, Svetlana Tsarukaeva, Alexander Ivanov and Andrey Demanov.

Despite the disappointing news, head Alexander Zhukov optimistically stated that three Russian weightlifters should go to Rio.

“There will be a small weightlifting team, probably three people,” TASS reports Zhukov’s words.

Unfortunately, the functionary’s predictions were not destined to come true, and the weightlifting team will become the first Russian team to be completely excluded from the Games, because the same athletes will be represented at least by Daria Klishina.

Let us note that the sword of Damocles hung over domestic weightlifters at the end of December last year, when four Russians were caught using prohibited substances at once, including the hero of the last world championship Alexey Lovchev.

Lovchev, who set two world records in Houston, immediately called the incident a political action.

Later, the athlete was disqualified for four years and filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, which did not help Alexey “cut off his sentence.”

Then Lovchev blamed the Canadian laboratory for everything, where, according to him, they made a mistake by mistaking the approved ecdisten for the prohibited ipamorelin.

“If I took ipamorelin, then metabolites should be detected in my analysis, they cannot be hidden, but they were not detected. There are several other factors that prove I am right and the laboratory in Montreal is wrong. Yes, the blow is strong, but we are holding it, we haven’t stopped training. We hope that justice will prevail at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne,” Lovchev told Match TV before filing an appeal.

After an unsuccessful appeal to CAS, the athlete was appointed sports advisor to the governor of the Vladimir region.

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Everything you need to know about weightlifting before the Olympics.

The Olympics (especially the summer ones) are rapidly deteriorating - the reason for this is not only doping and the total number of cheaters, but also the doping control system itself. It is controversial, imperfect and definitely kills viewer interest. Sport is cutting itself off, cutting off the heads of athletes and losing fans.

One can argue for a long time whether it is necessary to store samples for 8 years, endlessly recheck them, develop new methods of raids, but... I don’t want to watch the Games, where a lot of things are not pure, where you are deceived for your own money; or you're wasting your time on a farce.

Just imagine.

August 4, 2012. London. You bought a ticket to the weightlifting gym (what if this happened to you) or sat comfortably in front of the TV - weight category up to 94 kg. Records were set, powerful weights were lifted, medals were won, anthems were sung.

And after 4 years it turns out that 6 of the 8 best athletes in this weight category were doping. Some earlier, some later, some during the Games.

Look at this picture carefully and... be horrified:

And next time think hard: is it worth spending time on THIS, which is always not enough for much more important things?

Let's leave the talk about everyone taking doping, but not everyone gets caught, for another discussion.

Or another example. More important for us. The fate of Russian weightlifters will soon be decided - whether they will be allowed to participate in the Games in Rio. And judging by the latest news, with so many positive samples you will have to stay at home. Yesterday, after rechecking the London doping tests, we had new defendants.

Here is the list by name:

Beijing 2008

Marina Shainova (silver in weight up to 58 kg)
Nadezhda Evstyukhina (bronze in weight up to 75 kg)

London 2012

Svetlana Tsarukaeva (silver in weight up to 63 kg)
Natalya Zabolotnaya (silver in weight up to 75 kg)
Apti Aukhadov (silver in weight up to 85 kg)
Alexander Ivanov (silver in weight up to 94 kg)
Andrey Demanov (4th place in weight up to 94 kg)

Outside the Olympics

Valentina Popova

Irina Sibetova
Vasily Polovnikov

Valeria Kaverina
Yuri Selyutin

Daria Goltsova
Dmitry Lapikov
Vladislav Lukanin

Natalya Khlestkina

Anastasia Romanova
Marina Shainova
Olga Zubova

Maxim Sheiko

Olga Afanasyeva
Ilya Atnabaev
Artem Grigoryan
Denis Kekhter
Alexey Kosov
Alexey Lovchev
Olga Zubova

Finally, the third important point: the President of the Russian Weightlifting Federation Sergey Syrtsov- Chairman of the Anti-Doping Commission of the European Weightlifting Federation.

However, you already have the main news about weightlifting.

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Olympics. Weightlifting. Alexey Mzhachik: the result in Rio is the most successful in my career

2016-08-17 10:44:08

The result in Rio is the most successful in my career, said the Belarusian weightlifter, who competed in the over 130 kg category. The Pinsk resident competed in group “B” and showed a high result in the double-event total of 411 kg. In the snatch, the Belarusian lifted the barbell 187 kg, and in the clean and jerk he showed a result of 224 kg. Thanks to this performance, the 20-year-old weightlifter gained a foothold in the “400” club of Belarusian weightlifting, which includes athletes who have achieved this grandmaster mark. At the moment, of the active ones, only Evgeniy Zhernosek, who is currently serving a disqualification, and Alexey Mzhachik have conquered the 400 kg weight.

“Very pleased with the result. One of the most successful performances in my career. No. Why am I! This is the best performance since I started weightlifting. I haven’t even lifted such kilograms in training,”- as BelTA reports, the athlete noted.

The Belarusian also said that he was glad to be at the Games at the age of 20, a junior age for weightlifters.

“Initially, I went as a reserve, of course, I was happy. After all, I had already left for my native Pinsk, but on the same day I was called back. I didn’t do any special preparation for Rio. Therefore, I’m very happy about these lifted kilograms,”- the weightlifter emphasized.

Alexey Mzhachik started weightlifting in Pinsk, and then, when his results increased noticeably, he was invited to the Bobruisk Olympic Reserve School. At the moment, the young athlete is studying in his 3rd year at Polesie State University, majoring in therapeutic physical education. In 2015, at the World Junior Championships, Alexey Mzhachik took second place in the over 130 kg category with a result of 401 kg (181 kg + 220 kg). At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Belarusian weightlifter took 12th place. The winner was Lasha Talakhadze from Georgia with a world record of 473 kg (215 kg + 258 kg). The second place went to the athlete from Armenia Gor Minasyan - 451 kg (210 kg + 241 kg). Another Georgian, Irakli Turmanidze, received the bronze award - 448 kg (207 kg +241 kg).

In the weightlifting competitions in Rio de Janeiro, Chinese athletes won the largest number of medals (five gold and two silver), the team from Thailand took second place - two gold, one silver and one bronze medals. Weightlifters from Iran took third place with two gold medals. The Belarusian team, with two silver medals, took ninth place in the medal standings of the Olympic weightlifting tournament.

At the same time, the Iranian did well, he found the strength to congratulate the Georgian on his victory.

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On August 9, at the Olympic Games in Rio, weightlifters competed for two sets of medals, one each for men and women.

Women's weight category first up to 63kg the winners were determined. Here, the Chinese Deng Wei won an unconditional victory over her rivals, with a difference of 14 kg, her total was 262 kg.

Men competed for weight awards up to 69kg and here, as in the women’s competition, the Chinese athlete SHI Zhiyong won, although his total was only 1 kg higher than the result of Daniyar Ismailov, a Turkmen athlete now competing for Turkey. Ismailov is in second place with a total of 351kg.

Weightlifting, Olympic Games 2016 - results