Kazakh weightlifter Rahimov stripped of Rio Olympic gold

Updated 4 years ago · Published on 23 Mar 2022 9:50AM · 0 Comments

Nijat Rahimov of Kazakhstan holds up his medal during the awards ceremony in the men’s 77kg category at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The Court of Arbitration for Sport yesterday stripped Rahimov of his gold medal and banned him eight for eight years on charges of using a doping method. – EPA pic, March 23, 2022.

KAZAKHSTAN’S Nijat Rahimov has been stripped of his Rio Olympics weightlifting gold medal and banned for eight years on charges of using a doping method.

The now 28-year-old won the under 77kg category Olympic gold in 2016 with a then world record clean and jerk lift of 214kg.

But yesterday, sport’s top court CAS ruled that Rahimov had substituted his urine on four occasions which they deemed use of a prohibited method.

They banned him for eight years starting from January 2021, and cancelled all his results from March 2016 to and including January 2021.

This included forfeiture of any medals. – AFP, March 23, 2022.

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