Mitko Grablev
Mitko Todorov Grablev () is a Bulgarian weightlifter who competed for Bulgaria. He is world and twice European champion and world record holder. He originally claimed the gold medal in Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 56 kg but was disqualified after he tested positive for furosemide. It became a scandal after another Bulgarian weightlifter Angel Guenchev, who also originally claimed a gold medal in weightlifting, was disqualified for failing drug testing and a positive result for the doping agent furosemide. The Bulgarian weightlifting team was forced to withdraw midway from the weightlifting competition. References Bulgarian male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Bulgaria Weightlifters at the 1988 Summer Olympics Bulgarian sportspeople in doping cases 1964 births Doping cases in weightlifting Living people Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals 20th-century Bulgarian people 21st-century Bulgarian people