He experienced problems with a persistent back injury between 2009 and 2011. (sportpanorama.by, 20 Feb 2012, 14 Oct 2010)
Awards and honours
He was named the 2007 Best Lifter by the International Weightlifting Federation. (IWF, 2007)
He holds the title of Honoured Master of Sport in Belarus. (mogilev.by, 28 Mar 2011)
Sport Specific Information
Name of coach
Valentin Korotkin [national]
When and where did you begin this sport?
He took up the sport in 1994 with his first coach Vasily Balakhonov.
Further Personal Information
Languages
Russian
Occupation
Athlete
General Interest
Other information
OLYMPIC MEDAL STRIPPED In October 2016 the International Olympic Committee announced that he had been stripped of the silver medal he won in the men's 85kg division at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing after a retest of the sample he provided at those Games returned positive for the banned steroid turinabol. (insidethegames.biz, 26 Oct 2016)
SUSPENSION OVERTURNED In early 2016 he tested positive for the banned substance meldonium and received a suspension. In April 2016 his suspension was lifted after the rules on meldonium were relaxed to allow minute traces of the drug in an athlete's samples. His test was one of those affected by the rule change. (olympics.nbcsports.com, 15 Apr 2016)
London
Beijing
Athens
Almaty
Wroclaw
Paris
Chiang Mai
Santo Domingo
Doha
Vancouver, BC
Kiev
Nuoro