Svetlana Podobedova
Template:Infobox sportsperson Svetlana Podobedova (Template:Lang-kk; born May 25, 1986, Zima, Irkutsk<ref name=":0" />) is a Kazakh weightlifter of Russian descent.
Career
Podobedova was awarded the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 75 kg category with a total of 291 kg. Her 161 kg Clean and Jerk was an Olympic record and her 291 kg total tied the Olympic record set only minutes before by Natalya Zabolotnaya. She was awarded the medal by virtue of lighter bodyweight.<ref name=":0">Svetlana Podobedova. sports-reference.com</ref>
In June 2016, following the Russian doping scandal, it was announced by the IWF that retests of the samples taken from the 2012 Olympics indicated that Podobedova had tested positive for prohibited substances, namely Stanazolol. If confirmed, she faced losing her Olympic medal, and all results and medals earned from the date of the sample in 2012 to 2016.<ref>IWF public disclosures</ref> In October 2016, she was stripped of her Olympic medal.<ref>"9 Olympians, including 6 medallists, caught for Beijing doping". cbc.ca. 26 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.</ref>
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- 1986 births
- Living people
- Russian female weightlifters
- Kazakhstani female weightlifters
- Former world record holders in weightlifting
- Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic weightlifters of Kazakhstan
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- Asian Games gold medalists for Kazakhstan
- Asian Games medalists in weightlifting
- Weightlifters at the 2010 Asian Games
- Doping cases in weightlifting
- Kazakhstani sportspeople in doping cases
- Competitors stripped of Olympic medals
- Kazakhstani people of Russian descent
- Russian expatriates in Kazakhstan
- People from Ziminsky District
- Russian emigrants to Kazakhstan
- Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
