Andrei Michnewitsch

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Andrej Michnewitsch at the 2011 World Cup in Daegu

Andrej Michnewitsch ( Belarusian Андрэй Міхневіч ; English transcription Andrei Mikhnevich ; born July 12, 1976 in Babrujsk ) is a former Belarusian shot putter who was banned for life because of multiple doping sins.

career

Michnewitsch was at the indoor world championships in 1999 with 19.44 m eighth in the shot put. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , he finished ninth with 19.48 m. In his first competition after the end of his first doping ban in 2003, he hit the ball to 21.66 m. A fortnight later he became world champion 2003 in Paris / Saint-Denis with a personal best of 21.69 m . In the same year he also won the Universiade .

In 2004 he was sixth with 20.50 m at the World Indoor Championships in Budapest . At the 2004 Olympic Games , he finished fifth with 20.60 m. In 2005 Michnewitsch became Belarusian champion for the second time after 2000.

Andrej Michnewitsch is 2.02 m tall and weighed 127 kg at competition times. He has been married to the 2006 European shot put champion, Natallja Michnewitsch (formerly Charaneka), since March 17, 2007 . He lives in Vitebsk with her and their son .

doping

At the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton , Michnewitsch was first convicted of doping and banned for two years. At the beginning of March 2013, traces of the prohibited substances Clenbuterol , Metandienone & Oxandrolone were found in a sample from the 2005 World Championships in a subsequent doping test . The IAAF confirmed a lifelong ban in July 2013, which was then imposed by the Disciplinary Commission of the Belarusian Anti-Doping Agency and canceled all results since August 2005, which also resulted in the withdrawal of the bronze medal from Beijing.

Personal best

  • Shot put: 21.69 m, 23 August 2003, Saint-Denis
    • Hall: 20.85 m, January 30, 2004, Minsk

The width of 22.10 m achieved in 2011 was canceled, as was the 21.81 m set up in the hall in 2010.

literature

  • Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2006. The international Track and Field Annual. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2006, ISBN 1-899807-34-9 .

Web links

Commons : Andrei Mikhnevich  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ IAAF: Helsinki 2005 re-tests reveal six adverse findings . March 8, 2013
  2. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Positive doping tests from WM 2005 confirmed . March 8, 2013
  3. ^ Andrei Mikhnevich (BLR) - results annulled from August 2005. IAAF , November 26, 2016, accessed on April 21, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Michnewitsch, Andrei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Міхневіч, Андрэй; Mikhnevich, Andrei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian shot putter
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Babruysk