Olha Korobka

Olha Korobka
Personal information
Surname:	Olha Wasylivna Korobka
Nationality:	Ukraine
Date of birth:	7th December 1985
Place of birth:	Bobrovytsia
Medal table

Olha Korobka ( Ukrainian Ольга Василівна Коробка ; born December 7, 1985 in Bobrowyzja ) is a Ukrainian weightlifter . According to the organizers of the Olympic Games in Beijing, the 1.81 m tall athlete, who was subsequently disqualified from the Games, weighed almost 167 kg in the competition and was the heaviest participating lifter. Korobka was also known as a repeat offender.

Career

For Ukraine Olha Korobka won three bronze medals at the 2003 World Cup , World Cup 2006 and World Cup 2007 . At the European Championships Korobka won three gold medals in 2006, 2007 and 2008. At the European Championships 2010 she took second place with 273 kg (= 123 kg + 150 kg) behind the Russian Tatyana Kaschirina , who was 76.20 kg lower in body weight in the overall rating 297 kg (= 135 kg + 162 kg). Due to the high body weight, Korobka's performance would only mean 4th place according to relative points, which are specified in the official result.

Korobka achieved her personal best at the 2005 World Championships with 287 kg in a duel (127 kg + 160 kg), which was only enough for 4th place behind the equally powerful but lighter American Cheryl Haworth ; however, the performance in the tear meant third place.

Repeat doping offender

At the 2011 World Championships , Olha Korobka tested positive for metandienone . Her bronze medal was revoked and she was banned from the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) from November 13, 2011 to November 13, 2013 for doping . In 2016, the IOC announced that Korobka had already been doped at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . As a repeat offender, she was subsequently disqualified and the illegally acquired silver medal was revoked .

Web links

• Results at iwf.net
• Photo Beijing 2008
• Personal information and picture, Beijing 2008 ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Photo, Beijing 2008
• Photo, World Cup 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ukrainian Korobka banned for doping kurier.at February 18, 2012
2. ↑ Sanctioned athletes iwf.net 2011 ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ IOC sanctions nine athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008. International Olympic Committee , October 26, 2016, accessed on April 21, 2018 .