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| fullname       = Vladimir Vladimirovich Sedov
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{{MedalCompetition|[[World Weightlifting Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2009 World Weightlifting Championships|2009 Goyang]] | [[2009 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 94 kg|&ndash;94 kg]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2014 World Weightlifting Championships|2014 Almaty]]| [[2014 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 94 kg|&ndash;94 kg]]}}
{{MedalBronze |[[2013 World Weightlifting Championships|2013 Wrocław]]| [[2013 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 94 kg|&ndash;94 kg]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Asian Weightlifting Championships|Asian Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2009 Asian Weightlifting Championships|2009 Taldykorgan]] | &ndash;94 kg}}
{{MedalSilver |[[2011 Asian Weightlifting Championships|2011 Tongling]]| &ndash;94 kg}}
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'''Vladimir Vladimirovich Sedov''' ({{lang-kk|Владимир Владимирович Седов}}; born March 2, 1988 in [[Ushtobe]], [[Almaty Region]]) is a [[Kazakhstan]]i [[weightlifter]].<ref>{{cite sports-reference|Vladimir Sedov|http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/se/vladimir-sedov-1.html|30 December 2012}}</ref>

==Career==
He won a gold medal for the [[2009 World Weightlifting Championships – Men's 94 kg|94 kg]] class at the [[2009 World Weightlifting Championships]] in [[Goyang]], [[South Korea]], with a total of 402&nbsp;kg, defeating Azerbaijan's [[Nizami Pashayev]] by fifteen kilograms.<ref>{{cite news|title=Kazakh weightlifters dominate World Championships|url=http://centralasiaonline.com/en_GB/articles/caii/features/sports/2009/12/03/feature-02?change_locale=true|publisher=Central Asia Online|date=29 November 2009|accessdate=30 December 2012}}</ref>

Sedov represented [[Kazakhstan]] at the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] in [[Beijing]], where he competed for the [[Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 85 kg|men's light heavyweight]] class (85&nbsp;kg). During the competition, he successfully lifted 180&nbsp;kg in the single-motion [[snatch (weightlifting)|snatch]], and hoisted 200&nbsp;kg in the two-part, shoulder-to-overhead [[clean and jerk]], for a total of 380&nbsp;kg. Sedov, however, narrowly lost the Olympic medal to Armenia's [[Tigran Vardan Martirosyan]] by three kilograms short of his record from the clean and jerk, finishing the entire event in fourth place.<ref>{{cite news|title=Men's 85kg (187 lbs)|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/weightlifting/resultsandschedules/rsc=WLM085000/standings.html|publisher=[[NBC Olympics]]|accessdate=30 December 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Chinese lifters take two more golds in never-win categories|url=http://www.china.org.cn/olympic/2008-08/16/content_16237847.htm|publisher=China Org|date=16 August 2008|accessdate=30 December 2012}}</ref> On 17 November 2016 the [[IOC]] disqualified him from the 2008 Olympic Games and struck his results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of his doping sample from 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=IOC sanctions 16 athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008|url=https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-16-athletes-for-failing-anti-doping-tests-at-beijing-2008|publisher=[[IOC]]|accessdate=17 November 2016}}</ref>

== Doping ==
Sedov served a two-year ban for doping from 2006. The sanction ended 18 May 2008.<ref>International Weightlifting Federation: [http://www.iwf.net/anti-doping/sanctioned-athletes/ Sanctioned athletes] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327032059/http://www.iwf.net/anti-doping/sanctioned-athletes/ |date=March 27, 2013 }}, iwf.net. Retrieved 16 November 2014</ref>  In 2016 he was disqualified from the 2008 Olympic Games for failing a doping re-test.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.iwf.net/results/athletes/?athlete=sedov-vladimir-1988-02-03&id=2613 IWF Profile]
*[http://iwrp.net/?view=contestant&id_zawodnik=12029 IWRP Profile]
*[http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=66235/bio/index.html NBC Olympics Profile]




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[[Category:1988 births]]
[[Category:Doping cases in weightlifting]]
[[Category:Kazakhstani sportspeople in doping cases]]
[[Category:Kazakhstani male weightlifters]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Olympic weightlifters of Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:People from Almaty Region]]
[[Category:Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:World Weightlifting Championships medalists]]


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