Aleksey Lovchev
Aleksey Vladimirovich Lovchev (; born 13 June 1989) is a Russian weightlifter. Career He competed at the 2013 World Championships in the Men's +105 kg, winning the bronze medal and the European Championships 2014, winning the gold medal in the Snatch, Clean and Jerk and total. In the 2015 World Championships he competed in the +105kg category, winning gold medals in the Snatch, Clean and Jerk, and Total, with a 211 kg Snatch and 264 kg world record Clean and Jerk for a world record 475 kg total. However, Lovchev failed a doping test and was stripped of the World Championship gold medal and world records. In May 2016, Lovchev was banned for four years after failing A and B-samples: he tested positive for ipamorelin, a hormone growth drug. He contested this decision at Court of Arbitration for Sport, but his appeal was dismissed. Major results See also Hossein Rezazadeh References External links 1989 births Living people Russian male weightlifters World Weightlifting Championships medalists Russian sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in weightlifting Universiade medalists in weightlifting Universiade bronze medalists for Russia European Weightlifting Championships medalists Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade 20th-century Russian people 21st-century Russian people