Anastasios Triantafyllou (; born May 30, 1987) is a Greek

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. Triantafyllou represented

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at the

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, where he competed for the men's middle-heavyweight category (94 kg), along with his compatriot Konstantinos Gkaripis. He successfully lifted 155 kg in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted 196 kg in a two-part, shoulder-to-overhead

clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without rest ...

, for a total of 351 kg, finishing behind his compatriot Gkaripis by nine kilograms in fifteenth place. In 2009 Triantafyllou was suspended for 2 years after he failed a

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for

methylhexanamine Methylhexanamine (also known as methylhexamine, 1,3-dimethylamylamine, 1,3-DMAA, dimethylamylamine, and DMAA; trade names Forthane and Geranamine) is an indirect sympathomimetic drug invented and developed by Eli Lilly and Company and marketed ...

doping.Sanctioned athletes iwf.net 2009

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Greek male weightlifters 1987 births Living people Olympic weightlifters for Greece Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Heraklion Doping cases in weightlifting 21st-century Greek sportsmen {{Greece-weightlifting-bio-stub