Ivan Zichan

Ivan Zichan
Iwan Zichan at the 2007 World Cup
nation	Belarus
birthday	24th July 1976 (age 44)
place of birth	Hloussewitschy ,  Soviet Union
size	186 cm
Weight	100 kg
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	86.73 m
society	Dynamo Hrodna
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 2 × 0 × 0 × European championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Universiade 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 Hammer throw  World championships gold Paris 2003 Hammer throw gold Osaka 2007 Hammer throw  European championships silver Amsterdam 2016 Hammer throw  Universiade gold Daegu 2003 Hammer throw
last change: January 15, 2017

Ivan Ryhorawitsch Zichan ( Belarusian Іван Рыгоравіч Ціхан ; Russian Иван Григорьевич Тихон / Ivan Grigorievich Tikhon;. English transcription Ivan Tsikhan (Tikhon) ; * 24. July 1976 in Hloussewitschy in Slonim , Byelorussian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Belarussian hammer thrower .

Career

He became world champion twice: 2003 in Paris and 2007 in Osaka . He was also U23 European champion in 1997 and fourth at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . In 2005 he threw just one centimeter below the world record of Jurij Sjedych (86.73 m). He won the silver medal at the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam . Despite several established doping sins - most recently in April 2014 - Zichan was invited to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and won silver.

Iwan Zichan is 1.86 m tall and weighs 100 kg.

doping

Olympic Games 2008

In 2008, he came third at the Beijing Olympics . In December, the IOC dismissed him from the bronze medal after testing positive for testosterone in the local doping control . Zichan appealed against this decision to the International Court of Sport (CAS), which overturned its disqualification in June 2010 due to a breakdown in the laboratory that analyzed the samples. IOC Vice President Thomas Bach announced that the IOC would conduct another analysis to overturn the CAS ruling.

2004 Olympic Games

In post-testing of doping samples from the 2004 Olympic Games in spring 2012, new test methods led to positive doping results with anabolic steroids. Zichan was then deleted from the start list for the hammer throw qualification at the 2012 Olympic Games on August 3, 2012 . In December 2012, awarded silver medal there, he was consistently denied .

World Championships 2005 and European Championships 2006

In April 2014, he was stripped of the 2005 world championship title because of doping . In this context, he also lost a first place at the European Championships in 2006 . At this event, Zichan had doped himself with testosterone again.

Web links

Commons : Iwan Zichan  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ivan Tsikhan in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Ivan Tikhon in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Doping cheater Tsikhan gets hammer silver . sport.de, August 20, 2016; Retrieved August 25, 2016
2. ^ IOC Disciplinary Commission: Decision Regarding Ivan Tsikhan, Born on July 24, 1976, Athlete, Belarus, Athletics ( Memento of May 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Doped hammer throwers lose medals . December 11, 2008
4. ↑ CAS: The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upholds the appeals of the Belarusian athletes ( Memento of March 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 165 kB). June 10, 2010
5. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Belarusians get medals back . June 10, 2010
6. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: IOC wants third analysis . June 10, 2010
7. ↑ Tichons start-up waiver: Positive follow-up test from 2004 , Focus Online, August 3, 2012
8. ^ IOC Media Relations Team: IOC disqualifies four medallists from Athens 2004 following further analysis of stored samples ( English ) IOC . December 5, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2012.
9. ↑ Revision of results following sanctions of Tsikhan and Ostapchuk , iaaf.org. Retrieved June 25, 2015.