Irina Nekrassova
Irina Nekrassova (born 1 March 1988) is a female weightlifter from Kazakhstan. Career At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships she ranked 9th in the 69 kg category, lifting 228 kg in total. She initially won the silver medal in the 63 kg category at the 2008 Summer Olympics, with 240 kg in total. On 17 November 2016 the IOC disqualified her from the 2008 Olympic Games, stripped her Olympic medal and struck her results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of her doping sample from 2008. References External links Athlete Biography at beijing2008 Living people 1988 births Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals Kazakhstani female weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Kazakhstan Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 2006 Asian Games Doping cases in weightlifting Kazakhstani sportspeople in doping cases Asian Games competitors for Kazakhstan 21st-century Kazakhstani women