Roxana Cocoș (; born 5 June 1989 in Bucharest) is a Romanian weightlifter. On 1 August 2012, Cocoș won the silver medal at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

in the –69 kg category with a snatch of 113 kg and a clean and jerk of 143 kg, giving a total of 256 kg. She had previously finished in 7th in the -58 kg category at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

, with a snatch of 89 kg and a clean and jerk of 115 kg, giving a total of 204 kg. On 25 November 2020, the reanalysed doping tests from the 2012 Summer Olympics turned out positive for metenolone and stanozolol, and she was stripped of the medal.IOC sanctions three athletes for failing anti-doping tests at London 2012
/ref> In June 2021, a report by the International Testing Agency on doping violations between 2009 and 2019 reviewed her case and concluded that there are "strong reasons to think" the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) was aware of urine samples being swapped by weightlifters and that president of the IWF Tamás Aján and IWF vice-president Nicu Vlad allowed her to compete at the

believing that they could hide her use of a banned substance. Aján and Vlad have been charged with anti-doping rule violations.

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1989 births Living people Olympic weightlifters of Romania Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Bucharest Olympic silver medalists for Romania Olympic medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Romanian female weightlifters European Weightlifting Championships medalists Doping cases in weightlifting Romanian sportspeople in doping cases Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals 21st-century Romanian women {{Romania-weightlifting-bio-stub