Iryna Kulesha

Iryna Mikhailauna Kulesha (Belarusian: Ірына Міхайлаўна Кулеша, born 26 June 1986 in Brest, Belarus or in Oberovshina)^[1] is a Belarusian weightlifter.

Iryna Kulesha

Kulesha in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Iryna Mikhailovna Kulesha
Nationality	Belarus
Born	26 June 1986 (1986-06-26) (age 39)[1] Brest, Belarus
Height	5 ft 4 in (163 cm)
Weight	165 lb (75 kg)
Medal record Women's Weightlifting Representing  Belarus Olympic Games Disqualified 2012 London – 75 kg World Championships 2011 Paris 75 kg (snatch)

Career

Kulesha originally won an Olympic bronze medal in the under 75 kg weight category at the 2012 Summer Olympics.^[2][3] She was coached by Viktor Shilay.^[1] On 21 November 2016, the IOC disqualified six medal winners in weightlifting for failing doping tests at the 2012 Games, including Kulesha, who was stripped of her medal.^[4]

Four days earlier, on 17 November 2016, the IOC had disqualified Kulesha from the 2008 Olympic Games and struck her results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of her doping sample from 2008.^[5]