Olha Korobka

Olha Korobka (Ukrainian Ольга Василівна Коробка; born December 7, 1985 in Bobrowyzja ) is a Ukrainian weightlifter. According to the organizers of the Olympic Games in Beijing, the 1.81 m tall athlete weighed in competition almost 167 kg, making it the heaviest participating lifter.

Career

Your biggest success so far celebrated Olha Korobka at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where they could win Mi -ran the silver medal with a total capacity of 277 kg behind the lighter by a good 50 kg Korean Jang in the weight category from 75 kg, with duel power of 326 kg at the same time represents a new world record. For Ukraine, it also won three bronze medals at the 2003 World Cup, World Cup 2006 and World Cup 2007. At the European Championships Korobka took three gold medals in 2006, 2007 and 2008. At the European Championships in 2010 she took second place with 273 kg ( = 123 kg 150 kg ) after the Russian Tatjana Kaschirina that at a lower to 76.20 kg body weight in the overall 297 kg ( = 135 kg 162 kg ) achieved. Due to the high body weight would Korobkas performance on the relative points that are specified in the official results, with only mean the 4th Place.

Your personal best Korobka reached already at the 2005 World Championships 287 kg in the total (127 kg 160 kg ), which at that time was only enough for fourth place behind the same power but lighter US-American Cheryl Haworth; However, the performance in the snatch meant the third place.

Olha Korobka has been banned by the International Weightlifting Federation ( FILA ) of 13 November 2011 to 13 November 2013 for doping.