Asset Sekenovich Mambetov (born 10 June 1982, in Altyn-Shoky, Kazakhstan) is a Kazakh

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, who initially won a bronze medal at the

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. He is a trainer for heavyweight wrestlers in Kazakhstan. On 17 November 2016 the

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disqualified him from the 2008 Olympic Games, stripped his Olympic medal and struck his results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of his doping sample from 2008.

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