Nastassia Novikava

Nastassia Novikava
	Nastassia Novikava (centre), on a pre-stamped envelope of Belarus
Personal information
Born	16 November 1981 (age 43)
Height	1.5 m (4 ft 11 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Country	Belarus
Sport	Weightlifting
Event	58kg
Coached by	Viktor Shilay
Medal record
Women's Weightlifting
Representing Belarus
Olympic Games
World Championships
European Championships
	Updated on 27 October 2016

Nastassia Novikava (Belarusian: Настасся Новікава) (born 16 November 1981 in Zhodzina, Byelorussian SSR) is a world championship winning weightlifter from Belarus.

Career

At the 2004 Summer Olympics Novikava ranked fifth in the 53 kg class.^[1] At the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships she won the silver medal in the 53 kg class, lifting a total of 213 kg.^[1]

She initially won the bronze medal in the women's 53 kg event at the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[2]

After 2008, Novikava moved up to the -58 kg category.

She won the 2010 European Championship with a personal best of 238 kg. In 2011, she won the world championship with a total of 237 kg.^[3]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished 7th with a total of 230 kg.^[4]

In 2016, she was stripped of her 2008 Olympic medal after a retest of her doping sample tested positive for steroids.^[5]

^ ^a ^b "NOVIKAVA Nastassia". International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 2011-05-27.
^ "NOVIKAVA Nasstasia". International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original on 2011-05-27.
^ "2011 World Championship Results" (PDF). www.iwf.net. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
^ "London 2012 - Weightlifting - Women's -58 kg". www.sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 9 October 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
^ "9 Olympians, including 6 medallists, caught for Beijing doping" Archived 2016-12-30 at the Wayback Machine. cbc.ca. 26 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.