Olga Kuzenkova

Olga Kuzenkova

Personal information
Native name	Ольга Сергеевна Кузенкова
Nationality	Russian
Born	4 October 1970 Smolensk, Soviet Union
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	76 kg (168 lb)
Sport
Country	Russia
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Hammer throw
Club	Dynamo Smolensk
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	75.68 m (2000)
Medal record Women's athletics Competitor for  Russia Olympic Games 2004 Athens Hammer 2000 Sydney Hammer World Championships Disqualified 2005 Helsinki Hammer 1999 Seville Hammer 2001 Edmonton Hammer 2003 Paris Hammer

Olga Sergeyevna Kuzenkova (Russian: Ольга Серге́евна Кузенкова; born 4 October 1970 in Smolensk) is a Russian athlete, the first woman to throw the hammer more than 70 meters. She has tested positive for doping.

She won gold in the women's hammer throw event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

She trained with Aleksandr Seleznyov.^[1]

Doping

In 2012, her samples from the 2004 Olympics were retested, and she tested positive for anabolic steroids; subsequently she was under investigation by the International Amateur Athletics Federation.^[2] In 2013, samples from the 2005 World Championships were retested and Kuzenkova was found to have been doping there as well.^[3] In March 2013, she was banned from competitions for two years.^[4]

Notes

1. "RusAthletics page" (in Russian). Retrieved 2007-04-27.
2. "Olympic 2004 champion Kuzenkova fails drugs test". The Star. Reuters. 2012-12-15. Retrieved 2012-12-15.
3. "Russia should not hold World Championship - Jade Johnson". BBC. Retrieved March 9, 2013.
4. Fyodorov, Gennady (April 2, 2012). "Kuzenkova and Krivelyova get two-year bans for doping". Reuters. Retrieved 2 April 2013.