Vadim Devyatovskiy

Vadim Devyatovsky

Vadim Devyatovsky at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka
Personal information
Native name	Вадзім Анатолевіч Дзевяоўскі
Full name	Vadim Anatolyevich Devyatovsky
Born	20 March 1977 (1977-03-20) (age 47) Navapolatsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (today Belarus)
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	115 kg (254 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Hammer throw
Club	Dynamo Vitebsk
Achievements and titles
Personal best	84.90 m (2005)
Medal record Men's Athletics Representing  Belarus Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Hammer World Championships 2005 Helsinki Hammer European Championships 2006 Gothenburg Hammer Universiade 2005 İzmir Hammer

Vadim Anatolyevich Devyatovsky (Belarusian: Вадзім Анатольевіч Дзевятоўскі, Vadzim Anatoljevič Dzieviatoŭski, Russian: Вади́м Анато́льевич Девято́вский; born 20 March 1977 in Navapołacak, Belarusian SSR, USSR) is a Belarusian hammer thrower.

He finished fourth at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and in 2005 he won the World Championships after his countryman Ivan Tsikhan was stripped of his gold medal because of doping violations. In July the same year he threw 84.90 metres, which currently is his personal best. He originally won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but was later taken away for doping, but reinstated afterwards.^[1]

Since 2008 he is a coach of Estonian hammer thrower Ellina Anissimova.^[2]

On 21 August 2020, during the 2020–21 Belarusian protests against the government of Alexander Lukashenko, Devyatovsky posted a message on his Facebook page in which he stated that "Lukashenko is not my President!!!!!" and stated that his previous support for the regime was a "delusion" and "betrayal of myself".^[3][4]

He was suspended from the sport for doping violations from 18 September 2000 to 17 September 2002.^[5]

On 4 September 2008 it was reported that Devyatovsky and the bronze medalist from the Olympics, fellow Belarusian Ivan Tsikhan, were under investigation by the International Olympic Committee for doping offenses. In December 2008, the IOC found him guilty of doping and took away his medal.^[6] He appealed the IOC's findings to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.^[7]

In June 2010 CAS ruled that the Beijing National Laboratory, which carried out the tests, had violated "documentation and reporting requirements" and granted his appeal for the reinstatement of the original competition results and the metal to be returned. It said the decision "should not be interpreted as an exoneration of the athletes," and the court did not say the athletes are free of any doping suspicion. CAS said the lab had provided no "plausible explanation" for interruption of the automated testing procedure of the IRMS—isotope ratio mass spectrometry—instruments and the lab breached international standards by having the same analyst test both the "A" and "B" samples. CAS further elaborated that the departure from these international standards "justify the annulment of the tests' results for both athletes".^[1]

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  Belarus
1994	World Junior Championships	Lisbon, Portugal	5th	64.70 m
1996	World Junior Championships	Sydney, Australia	2nd	70.88 m
1999	European U23 Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	4th	73.34 m
2003	World Championships	Paris, France	7th	78.13 m
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	4th	78.82 m
	World Athletics Final	Szombathely, Hungary	5th	76.54 m
2005	World Athletics Final	Szombathely, Hungary	2nd	78.98 m
2006	European Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	2nd	80.76 m
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	5th	78.67 m
2007	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	4th	81.57 m
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	5th	77.81 m
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	2nd	81.61 m [1]

• Vadim Devyatovskiy at World Athletics
• Vadim Devyatovsky at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)