Olga Shchukina

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Olga Shchukina (born April 6, 1977 in Tashkent ) is a former Uzbek athlete .

The shot putter increased her personal best to 17.26 m in May 2004 and qualified for the Olympic Games in the same year. In Athens she hit 14.44 m in qualification. Only then did it become known that Shchukina had tested positive for Clenbuterol during a training check shortly before the games . She was disqualified and banned from the IAAF for two years.

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Individual evidence

  1. Athletes Sanctioned for a Doping Offence Committed During 2004 iaaf.org ( Memento from October 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )