Tokyo Bronze Medallist Weightlifter Igor Son Handed Eight-year Ban for Doping

Kazakh weightlifter Igor Son, who gained bronze on the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, has been banned for eight years for doping however won’t be stripped of his medal, the nation’s weightlifting federation (WFRK) mentioned on Wednesday.

Son, who gained bronze within the males’s 61kg class, was amongst six weightlifters to obtain doping bans after they’d examined constructive for banned substances in March 2022. No substances have been specified however the WFRK mentioned it could examine internally.

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“This out-of-competition testing was taken after six months from these worldwide competitions the place the athletes took half, so there is no such thing as a query of cancelling their outcomes or returning medals,” WFRK general secretary Aldiyar Nuralinov said.

“I would especially like to stress this with regard to Igor Son’s Olympic medal.”

Son, 24, served a seven-month suspension in 2015 after testing constructive for prohibited steroid methandienone and was stripped of his Youth World Championship gold medal.

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Kazakhstan has been stripped of Olympic weightlifting medals, together with six golds, from the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Games for varied anti-doping rule violations.

It was amongst a number of nations to be allotted solely two locations in weightlifting on the Tokyo Olympics due to its historic doping file.

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