Vladimir Vladimirovich Sedov (Kazakh: Владимир Владимирович Седов; 2 March 1988 – 26 June 2023) was a Kazakh weightlifter, who competed in men's 94 kg weight category.
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| Full name | Vladimir Vladimirovich Sedov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Kazakhstan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 March 1988 Ushtobe, Alma-Ata Region, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 June 2023 (aged 35) Dostyk, Karatal District, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 94 kg (207 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | –94 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editSedov won a gold medal for the 94 kg class at the 2009 World Weightlifting Championships in Goyang, South Korea, with a total of 402 kg, defeating Azerbaijan's Nizami Pashayev by fifteen kilograms.[1]
Sedov represented Kazakhstan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's light heavyweight class (85 kg). During the competition, he successfully lifted 180 kg in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted 200 kg in the two-part, shoulder-to-overhead clean and jerk, for a total of 380 kg. Sedov, however, narrowly lost the Olympic medal to Armenia's Tigran Vardan Martirosyan by three kilograms short of his record from the clean and jerk, finishing the entire event in fourth place.[2][3] On 17 November 2016, the IOC disqualified him from the 2008 Olympic Games and struck his results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of his doping sample from 2008.[4]
In his last major international competition, Sedov snatched 175 kg and clean and jerked 211 kg for a 386 kg total and gold medal at the 2016 Asian championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[5][circular reference]
Doping
editSedov served a two-year ban for doping from 2006. The sanction ended on 18 May 2008.[6] In 2016 he was disqualified from the 2008 Olympic Games for failing a doping re-test and all results were invalidated from 2008 Summer Olympics to 2016 Summer Olympics.
Results
editWeightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 85 kg – he finished fourth, but was disqualified after he tested positive for stanozolol. In 2019, his sample was re-analyzed and due to being positive, all his results from 2008 to 2016 were declared invalid.
| Year | Venue | Weight | Rank | |||
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| Snatch | Cl&Jerk | Total | Team Points | |||
| World Championships | ||||||
| 2009 |  South Korea |
94 kg |  |
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81 |
| 2013 |  Poland |
94 kg |  |
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69 |
| 2014 | Kazakhstan |
94 kg | |
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76 |
| Asian Championships | ||||||
| 2009 | Kazakhstan |
94 kg | |
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84 |
| 2011 |  China |
94 kg | |
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76 |
| 2016 |  Uzbekistan |
94 kg | |
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84 |
Death
editVladimir Sedov died by suicide on 26 June 2023, at the age of 35.[7][8]
References
edit- ^ "Kazakh weightlifters dominate World Championships". Central Asia Online. 29 November 2009. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
- ^ "Men's 85kg (187 lbs)". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
- ^ "Chinese lifters take two more golds in never-win categories". China Org. 16 August 2008. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
- ^ "IOC sanctions 16 athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008". IOC. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
- ^ 2016 Asian Weightlifting Championships
- ^ International Weightlifting Federation: Sanctioned athletes Archived 27 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine, iwf.net. Retrieved 16 November 2014
- ^ "Известный казахстанский тяжелоатлет Владимир Седов покончил с собой; Tengrinews.kz". www.tengrinews.kz. 27 June 2023.
- ^ "Известный казахстанский тяжелоатлет Владимир Седов покончил жизнь самоубийством". prosports.kz (in Russian). Retrieved 23 June 2023.
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