Galabin Boewski

Galabin Pepow Boewski ( Bulgarian Гълъбин Пепов Боевски ; born December 19, 1974 in Knescha , Bulgaria ) is a former Bulgarian weightlifter . He was a lightweight Olympic champion in Athens in 2000 .

Career

Galabin Boewski began lifting weights as a teenager. He became a member of "Ladimex" Pernik and was trained by Plamen Asparuchow. He started mainly in the lightweight category, at that time up to 69 kg body weight and was relatively tall for this weight class at 1.75 m. His international career began at the European Championships in Valencia in 1993 , where he took 6th place in the weight class up to 64 kg body weight with 277.5 kg in a duel. As early as the next year he reached 300 kg in a duel at the World Championships in Djakarta and thus reached 4th place. At the 1994 European Championships in Rome he won with 297.5 kg in the weight class up to 64 kg body weight with the 2nd place his first medal at an international championship.

In 1995, Galabin Boewski was proven to have taken anabolic steroids and thus convicted of doping. He was then banned from all competitions for two years. In 1998 he returned to the international weightlifting stage. He started now in the weight class up to 69 kg body weight and was more successful than ever. He was world champion 1998 in Lahti with 337.5 kg, European champion 1999 in La Coruna with 352.5 kg, world champion 1999 in Athens with 357.5 kg, Olympic champion 2000 in Sydney with 357.5 kg, world champion 2001 in Antalya with 340 kg , European Champion 2002 in Antalya with 350 kg and European Champion 2003 in Loutraki / Greece with 347.5 kg. In addition, he set various world records in tearing and pushing.

Shortly before the 2003 World Cup in Vancouver , the Bulgarian national weightlifting team was subjected to a doping test. It was found that Galabin Boewski and two other lifters from this team had given the same urine sample for them. These three weightlifters must have been manipulated and acted with fraudulent intent. Galabin Boewski, who was also a professional weightlifting player for AC Soest in the German Bundesliga, was then banned from all competitions for eight years as a repeat offender.

On October 27, 2011, Boewski was arrested in São Paulo while trying to board a plane to Europe with nine kilograms of cocaine . After being sentenced to nine years in prison, he served two years in a Brazilian prison and was then released to his homeland in Bulgaria.

The white prisoner

On December 21, 2013, a biography by Boewski was published by the Trud publishing house under the title The White Prisoner. The Secret Story of Galabin Boewski (Bulgarian: Белият затворник. Тайната история на Гълъбин Боевски). The book was written by journalist Ognian Georgiev, who works as a sports editor for the daily Bulgaria Dnes. The book sheds light on Boewski's career as well as his arrest for cocaine smuggling, conviction and subsequent release.

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1. ↑ Боевски остава в ареста. on: topsport.ibox.bg (bulg.)
2. ↑ novinite.com: The Mysterious Boevski , October 24, 2013
3. ↑ Шокиращата тайна на Гълъбин Боевски разкрита! . Zasada.bg. Archived from the original on January 12, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 12, 2014. 

• Athletics magazine from 1993 to 2003, especially athletics no. 12 of December 2003, p. 11.
• Database weightlifting of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig .

Web links

• Portrait of Galabin Boewski
• Galabin Boewski in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )