Aleksey Lovchev

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Aleksey Lovchev
Personal information
Birth name Aleksey Vladimirovich Lovchev
Nationality Russian
Born (1989-06-13) 13 June 1989 (age 34)
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Weight 140.46 kg (309.7 lb)[1]
Sport
Country  Russia
Sport Weightlifting
Event(s) +105kg
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • Snatch: 212 kg (2014)
  • Clean and jerk: 264 kg (2015)
  • Total: 475 kg
Updated on 29 November 2015.

Aleksey Vladimirovich Lovchev (Russian: Алексе́й Влади́мирович Ло́вчев; born 13 June 1989) is a Russian weightlifter.[2]

Career

He competed at the 2013 World Championships in the Men's +105 kg, winning the Bronze medal and the European Championships 2014, winning the Gold medal in the Snatch, Clean and Jerk and total.[3]

In the 2015 World Championships he competed in the +105kg category, winning gold medals in the Snatch, Clean and Jerk, and Total, with a 211 kg Snatch and 264 kg world record Clean and Jerk for a world record 475 kg total.[4] This total tied the all time record total set by Leonid Taranenko in 1988.[5][6] However, Lovchev has since been found to have failed doping tests.[7]

In May 2016, Aleksey Lovchev has been banned for four years after failing A and B-samples, where he was tested positively for ipamorelin, a hormone growth drug. The sportsman will contest this decision at the Arbitrary Court in Lausanne.[8][9][10]

Major results

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
World Championships
2013 Poland Wrocław, Poland +105 kg 191 196 200 3rd 230 240 -- 5 430 3rd
2014 Kazakhstan Almaty, Kazakhstan +105 kg 205 205 205 -- 245 250 257 1st -- --
2015 United States Houston, United States +105 kg 200 206 211 1st 242 248 264 1st 475 1st
European Championships
2014 Israel Tel Aviv, Israel +105 kg 192 197 205 1st 235 245 252 1st 457 1st
Summer Universiade
2011 China Shenzhen, China 105 kg 170 176 176 3 200 205 213 3 375 3rd

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 http://ironworld.ru/articles/18089/
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  5. Taranenko lifted 476.0 kg in the total, but for the competition results, the weight was normalized to the standard interval of 2.5 kg.
  6. Taranenko's record was nullified in 1993 when the IWF restructured its weight classes.
  7. http://www.allthingsgym.com/2015wwc/
  8. Weightlifting world champion Aleksey Lovchev slapped with four-year doping ban
  9. Weight-lifter Lovchev gets four-year ban over doping abuse
  10. Champion weightlifter Lovchev slapped with doping ban

External links

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