Andrei Rybakou (Belarusian: Андрэй Анатолевіч Рыбакоў) (born March 4, 1982) is a Belarusian former weightlifter, Olympian[1] and two-time World Champion who competed in the 85 kg category. In 2016, after a retest of his 2008 samples tested positive for Dehydrochloromethyl-testosterone and Stanozolol his performance at the 2008 Olympic Games was disqualified, as well as his Olympic record and World record set during the competition. He was also ordered to return his silver medal.
 Rybakou in November 2011 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  Belarus |
| Born | 4 March 1982 Mogilev, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Belarus |
| Sport | Weightlifting |
| Event | –85 kg |
Medal record | |
Career
editOlympics
editIn 2004 Rybakou made his Olympic debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he competed in the 85 kg category. During the snatch portion, after making a 180.0 kg lift, he attempted a new world record lift of 183.0 kg, he did not make the lift as the clock ran out on him, but as he was competing in the B category he had a 12.5 kg lead over the net closest competitor. During the clean & jerk portion of the competition his last successful lift of 200.0 kg gave him a total of 380.0 kg which led the second place competitor in the B group by 25.0 kg. It was not until Giorgi Asanidze's first clean & jerk of 202.5 kg in the A session that Rybakou was bumped from the gold medal position. Giorgi Asanidze ended up becoming Olympic Champion and Rybakou was awarded the silver medal.[2]
Following his silver medal finish in 2004, two World Weightlifting Championships wins in 2006 and 2007, and after setting 4 world records, he was a favorite to win gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics. In the snatch portion he set a new Olympic Record lift of 185 kg, giving him a 5 kg lead over Lu Yong. In the clean and jerk aspect, he made all three lifts finishing with a 209 kg clean & jerk, setting a new world record total of 394 kg. Lu Yong attempted, and initially made a 214 kg clean & jerk on his second attempt before the jury overruled the results and that lift was declared a no lift,[3] in his third attempt Lu made the 214 kg lift. As Lu weighed 0.28 kg less, he was awarded the gold medal, and Rybakou was again the silver medalist.[4] In 2016, after a retest of his 2008 samples tested positive for Dehydrochloromethyl-testosterone and Stanozolol[5][6][7] his performance at the 2008 Olympic Games was disqualified, as well as his Olympic record and World record set during the competition. He was also ordered to return his silver medal.[8][9]
In 2012 he competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 85 kg category, but was unable to complete a snatch, because of this he could not compete in the clean & jerk portion of the competition which resulted in a DNF.[10]
Other Championships
editIn April 2006, he won the European Championship. Later that year, during the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships he was crowned as the World Champion in the 85 kg category.[11]
He won the gold medal in the 85 kg category again at the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships,[11] setting a world record with a 187 kg snatch.[12]
Major results
edit| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | Clean & Jerk (kg) | Total | Rank | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
| Olympic Games | ||||||||||||
| 2004 |  Athens, Greece |
85 kg | 175.0 | 180.0 | 1 | 195.0 | 200.0 | 7 | 380.0 | 
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| 2008 |  Beijing, China |
85 kg | 180 | 185 | — | 200 | 204 | 209 | — | — | DSQ | |
| 2012 |  London, United Kingdom |
85 kg | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| World Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2003 |  Vancouver, Canada |
94 kg | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2005 |  Doha, Qatar |
85 kg | 180 | 183 WR | 185 WR |  |
195 | 12 | 380 | 5 | ||
| 2006 |  Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep |
85 kg | 180 | |
200 | 203 | |
383 |
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| 2007 |  Chiang Mai, Thailand |
85 kg | 180 | 185 | 187 WR | |
200 | 206 | |
393 WR[a] |
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| 2011 |  Paris, France |
85 kg | 170 | 175 | 178 | |
182 | 185 | 18 | 368 | 7 | |
| 2013 |  Wrocław, Poland |
85 kg | 175 | 179 | |
194 | 7 | 373 | 6 | |||
| 2014 |  Almaty, Kazakhstan |
85 kg | 175 |  |
182 | 191 | 19 | 366 | 8 | |||
| European Championships | ||||||||||||
| 2003 | Loutraki, Greece |
85 kg | 175.0 | 180.0 | |
190.0 | 10 | 370.0 | 6 | |||
| 2004 |  Kyiv, Ukraine |
85 kg | 175.0 | |
190.0 | 17 | 365.0 | 8 | ||||
| 2006 | Władysławowo, Poland |
85 kg | 180 | 186 WR | |
195 | 200 | 206 | |
392 |
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Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ "Olympic Profile". Olympic.org. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- ^ "85 kg Men's Results". Olympic.org. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "Men's 85 kg: A STORY OF 28 DKG". IWF.net. 15 August 2008. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "FLASH: BELARUS RYBAKOV BREAKS MEN'S 85KG WEIGHTLIFTING WORLD RECORD". Archived from the original on August 24, 2008. Retrieved 2012-07-28.
- ^ "IWF Sanctions". IWF.net. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "3 Olympic weightlifting gold medalists fail doping retests". Associated Press. 24 August 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "9 Olympians, including 6 medallists, caught for Beijing doping". cbc.ca. 26 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ^ "Doping Reanalysis". IWF.net. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "Doping in sport: 11 Beijing 2008 weightlifting medallists fail retests". BBC. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ "Men's 85 kg London Results". Reuters. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ a b "Rybakov Andrei". International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2010.
- ^ "Andrei Rybakov". Lift Up. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
- ^ "IWF eliminates World Standards from World Record list". International Weightlifting Federation. 24 June 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2017.