Natalia Alexandrovna Sabolotnaya

Natalia Sabolotnaya
Personal information
Surname:	Natalia Alexandrovna Sabolotnaya
Nationality:	Russia
Date of birth:	August 15, 1985
Place of birth:	Salsk , Soviet Union
Medal table

Natalja Alexandrovna Sabolotnaja ( Russian: Наталья Александровна Заболотная ; born August 15, 1985 in Salsk , Russia ) is a Russian weightlifter .

Career

Natalja Sabolotnaja celebrated her greatest success so far at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , where she won the silver medal in the weight class up to 75 kg with 272.5 kg behind the equally powerful but lighter Thai woman Pawina Thongsuk . This duel was a world record at the time, as was the individual performance in the tear with 125 kg. Since then she has been able to improve the world record in snatching five times, since December 17, 2011 to 135 kg; In between, the Chinese Chunghong Liu and Podobedowa were also record holders (as of July 2012).

On November 13, 2005, at the World Championships in Doha, she set a two-way world record with 285 kg, which Svetlana Podobedowa improved by 1 kg after about half a year and on November 28, 2009 at the 2009 World Championships by Podobedowa by another 6 kg was exceeded. At the 2010 World Cup in Antalya she got the record back with 293 kg, but Podobedowa was able to increase it to 295 kg in the same competition. Since November 17, 2011, Sabolotnaja has again been the world record holder with 296 kg (as of July 2012).

Sabolotnaja has held the junior world record with 130 kg in snatch since November 13, 2005 (as of July 2012). For Russia she also won the silver medal at the 2005 World Cup with 285 kg and the silver medal at the 2007 World Cup with 281 kg. There are also four gold medals in a duel, which they won at the European Championships in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 with 278 kg, 264 kg (123 + 141) and 265 kg (120 + 145) and 285 kg (129 + 156) in the overall ranking got. This performance is also the best of all female lifters at the EM 2010 with 322.6 relative points (Sinclair).

Natalja Sabolotnaja uses the relatively seldom seen standing technique when pushing without lunge.

doping

In 2016, Sabolotnaja was convicted of doping during follow-up tests for the 2012 games and therefore subsequently disqualified . The first-placed Kazakh Swetlana Podobedowa and the third-placed Belarusian Irina Kulescha were also doped.

Web links

• Nataliya Zabolotnaya in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IOC sanctions 12 athletes for failing anti-doping test at London 2012. International Olympic Committee , November 21, 2016, accessed April 22, 2018 . 
2. ^ Doping curse: today's winners tomorrow's crooks? Mittelbayerische Zeitung , August 11, 2016, accessed on August 25, 2016 .