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Rio champion Nurudinov DQ’d from London Olympics for doping
Ruslan Nurudinov, of Uzbekistan, competes in the clean and jerk portion of the men's 105 kg weightlifting event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Aug. 15, 2016. (Mike Groll/AP)
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — A weightlifting gold medallist at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics has been disqualified from the 2012 London Games for doping.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport’s new anti-doping tribunal stripped Ruslan Nurudinov of fourth place in London in the 105-kilogram weight class, the CAS said Monday .
Nurudinov, from Uzbekistan, later won the 105-kilogram world title in 2013, Olympic gold in 2016 and the 2018 Asian Games title.
He tested positive for the anabolic steroid oral turinabol in re-analysis of London samples.
The 27-year-old lifter now faces a ban from the International Weightlifting Federation, which provisionally suspended him in December.
The 105-kilogram gold medallist in London, Oleksiy Torokhtiy of Ukraine, was also provisionally suspended in December. CAS did not announce a ruling in his case Monday.
CAS also disqualified Mikalai Novikau of Belarus from the 85-kilogram class in London. Novikau, who originally placed eighth, tested positive for two anabolic steroids.
The CAS anti-doping tribunal was created to judge cases on behalf of the IOC and sports governing bodies. Verdicts can be challenged at the separate and long-standing appeals division of sport’s highest court.
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