Olga Nikolaevna Shchukina (; born 6 April 1977, in

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) is a retired Uzbek shot putter. Shchukina was selected to the Uzbek Olympic squad in the shot put at the

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, but her feat had been outweighed with a doping failure for testing positive on

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during the pre-competition screening, which resulted to her immediate expulsion from the Games. During her athletic career, Shchukina launched her personal best shot of 17.26 at the 2004 Asian Cup League Meeting in

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. Shchukina qualified for the Uzbek squad in the women's shot put at the

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, by posting an Olympic B-standard throw of 17.26 metres from the Asian Cup League Meeting in

. She unleashed a ball with her best throw of 14.44 metres on the third attempt of the prelims to obtain the last spot in a vast field of thirty-eight shot putters. On August 20, 2004, two days after her shot put feat at the

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, Shchukina tested positive for the banned anabolic agent

during the pre-competition screening process, and was formally expelled from the Games by the

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. Admittedly, she ingested the substance inadvertently with a cough syrup that spurred her failure to the doping test. In 2004 she completed her sports career.

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* 1977 births Living people Uzbekistani female shot putters Olympic athletes for Uzbekistan Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes from Tashkent Doping cases in athletics 21st-century Uzbekistani sportswomen {{Uzbekistan-athletics-bio-stub