NURUDINOV Ruslan

General
SANCTION
In December 2018 the International Weightlifting Federation [IWF] announced that a sample he had provided at the 2012 Olympic Games in London had been retested and found to be positive for the prohibited substance dehydrochlormethyltestosterone [oral turinabol]. In April 2019 the International Olympic Committee [IOC] referred the case to the Anti-Doping Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport [CAS ADD], which found that he had committed an anti-doping rule violation. As a result, the CAS ADD disqualified him from the 2012 Olympic Games in London, where he had finished fourth in the 105kg category. The case was then referred back to the IWF for follow-up, and the IWF issued him with a two-year suspension. His period of ineligibility ended on 17 December 2020. (tas-cas, 27 May 2019; iwf, 22 Dec 2018, 03 Aug 2020; insidethegames, 27 May 2019; kun.uz, 01 May 2020)

He won Uzbekistan's first weightlifting Olympic gold medal, when he was victorious in the 105kg category at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Dec 2020)

He became the first weightlifter representing Uzbekistan to win a gold medal at the world championships when he was victorious in the 105kg category at the 2013 edition in Wroclaw, Poland. He claimed gold in the snatch, the clean and jerk, and the overall competition. (weightliftingpodcast, 08 Jul 2014; IWF, 27 Oct 2013; SportsDeskOnline, 16 Dec 2020)