Natalya Aleksandrovna Zabolotnaya (; born 15 August 1985) is a Russian

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Career

Zabolotnaya competed in the women's 75 kg weight class at the

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and won the silver medal, lifting 272.5 kg in total. The result qualified as a world record, but it was also achieved by

Pawina Thongsuk Pawina Thongsuk (born April 18, 1979 in Sikhoraphum, Surin) is a Thai weightlifter. She is a Captain in the Royal Thai Army. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she won an Olympic gold medal with 122.5 kg snatching and 272.5 kg tot ...

, who won the competition. Zabolotnaya won a gold medal in the 75 kg weight class at the 2010 European Championship. She originally was awarded the silver medal at the

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in the women's 75 kg category with a total of 291 kg. This result was an Olympic record, which was also achieved by

Svetlana Podobedova Svetlana Podobedova (; born May 25, 1986, Zima, Irkutsk) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani weightlifter. 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&n ...

who was awarded the gold medal in the competition by virtue of lighter bodyweight, though Podobedova was subsequently stripped of her medal due to doping. Zabolotnaya's 131 kg snatch was a (later also nullified due to doping-related cheating) Olympic record. In November 2016, Zabolotnaya was stripped of her 2012 Olympic medal after her drug sample came back positive in a retest.

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