Valentina Vadimovna Popova

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Valentina Popova Wadimowna ( Russian Валентина Вадимовна Попова ., Scientific transliteration Valentina Popova Vadimovna * 25. September 1972 in Bratsk / Siberia ) is a former Russian weightlifter.

Career

Valentina started doing gymnastics as a girl and then switched to acrobatics . In both sports, however, she did not achieve any outstanding success. After graduating from high school, she studied at the Moscow Institute of Physical Culture and Sports. After she married the former weightlifter Sergei Popov, the 1.64 m tall athlete, who now lives in Voronezh , also began lifting weights . Her husband also became her trainer. In 1997 she was accepted into the Russian national team and from 1998 she won medals at almost all major international events. At the 2006 European Championships in Władiławowo, Poland, where Walentina originally came in second, she was convicted of doping . She was disqualified and banned from international competitive sport for two years by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). Valentina Popova's two-year ban would have expired on May 4, 2008. Shortly before, however, she was tested positive again during a training control. For this reason, the international weightlifting association has now banned her for life.

International successes / all-around

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship)

  • 1997, 10th place , World Championships in Chiangmai / Thailand , up to 59 kg, with 177.5 kg, winner: Patmawati, Indonesia , 212.5 kg ahead of K. Suta, Thailand, 210 kg;
  • 1998, 2nd place , EM in Riesa , up to 63 kg, with 202.5 kg, behind Gergana Kirilowa , Bulgaria , 207.5 kg and in front of Josefa Perez, Spain , 190 kg;
  • 1998, 3rd place , World Championships in Lahti , up to 63 kg, behind Chen Jui-Lien, Taiwan , 225 kg and Shi Lihua, China, 225 kg;
  • 1999, 1st place , EM in A Coruña , up to 63 kg, ahead of Ioanna Chatzioannou, Greece , 210 kg and Kirilowa, 205 kg;
  • 1999, 3rd place , World Championships in Athens , up to 63 kg, with 232.5 kg, behind Chen Jui-Lien, 240 kg and Meivin Xiong, China, 237.5 kg;
  • 2000, 1st place , EM in Sofia , up to 63 kg, ahead of Perez, 190 kg and Veronika Burunowa, CSSR , 182.5 kg;
  • 2000, silver medal , OS in Sydney , up to 63 kg, with 235 kg, behind Xiaomin Chen , China, 242.5 kg and in front of Chatzioannou, 222.5 kg;
  • 2001, 1st place , EM in Trencin , up to 63 kg, with 230 kg, ahead of Dominika Misterska, Poland , 227.5 kg and Natalya Skakun, Ukraine , 225 kg;
  • 2001, 1st place , World Championships in Antalya , up to 69 kg, with 257.5 kg, ahead of Swetlana Habirowa, Russia , 250 kg and Eszter Krutzler, Hungary , 240 kg;
  • 2002, 1st place , EM in Antalya, up to 69 kg, with 252.5 kg, ahead of Habirowa, 247.5 kg and Maria Tatsi, Greece, 212.5 kg;
  • 2002, 2nd place , World Championships in Warsaw , up to 69 kg, with 257.5 kg, behind Pawina Thongsuk , Thailand, 260 kg and ahead of Nahla Ramadan , Egypt , 245 kg;
  • 2003, 1st place , EM in Loutraki , up to 69 kg, with 245 kg, ahead of Milena Trendafilowa , Bulgaria, 237.5 kg and Zarema Kasajewa, Russia, 235 kg;
  • 2003, 3rd place , World Championships in Vancouver , up to 69 kg, with 257.5 kg, behind Liu Chunhong, China, 270 kg, and Krutzler, 262.5 kg;
  • 2004, bronze medal , OS in Athens, up to 75 kg, with 265 kg, behind Thongsuk, 272.5 kg and Natalja Zabolotnaja, Russia, 272.5 kg;
  • 2005, 2nd place , EM in Sofia , up to 75 kg, with 260 kg, behind Swetlana Podobedowa , Russia, 262.5 kg and in front of Rumiana Petkowa, Bulgaria, 235 kg;
  • 2006, 2nd place , EM in Władisławowo / Poland, up to 75 kg, with 272 kg, behind Zabolotnaja , 278 kg and in front of Chripsime Kurschudjan, Armenia , 264 kg; subsequently disqualified for doping !

Medals individual disciplines

(World Cup medals are no longer awarded at the Olympic Games)

  • World Championship gold medals: 2001, snatch, 115 kg - 2001, push, 142.5 kg - 2002, snatch, 115 kg
  • World Cup silver medals: 1998, tear, 100 kg - 1999, tear, 105 - 2002, push, 142.5 kg - 2003, tear, 117.5 kg
  • World Championship bronze medal: 2003, push, 140 kg
  • EM gold medals: 1998, push, 115 kg - 1999, snatch, 95 kg - 2000, snatch, 102.5 kg - 2000, push, 125 kg - 2001, snatch, 105 kg - 2002, snatch, 112.5 kg - 2002, push, 140 kg - 2003, snatch, 110 kg - 2003, push, 135 kg - 2005, snatch, 117.5 kg
  • European Championship silver medals: 1998, snatch, 97.5 kg - 1999, push, 117.5 kg - 2005, push, 142.5 kg - 2006, snatch, 122 kg - 2006, push, 150 kg
  • European Championship bronze medal: 2001, pushing, 125 kg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sanctioned Athletes iwf.net 2008
personal data
SURNAME Popova, Valentina Vadimovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Попова, Валентина Вадимовна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratsk , Russian SFSR, Soviet Union