Ms. Boyanka Kostova is an Azerbaijani Athlete competing in the Women’s 58 kg weightlifting event at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
In 2016, the IOC decided to perform further analyses on certain samples collected during the 2012 Olympic Games. These additional analyses were performed with analytical methods which were not available in 2012.
In May 2016 the International Olympic Committee reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Athlete after her 2012 A and B samples tested positive for the prohibited substances dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol) and stanozolol.
After notification the Athlete submitted that she did not challenge the test results and she waived his right to be heard for the IOC Disciplinary Commission.
The Commission finds that the Athlete did not challenge the test results and concludes that the Athlete has committed an anti-doping rule violation consistent with the intentional use of prohibited substances specifically ingested to deliberately improve performance. The fact that the metabolites of two doping substances, which are “classical” doping substances, were found, supports this consideration.
Therefore the IOC Disciplinary Commission decides on 22 November 2016 that the Athlete, Boyanka Kostova:
1.) is found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to the IOC Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London in 2012,
2.) is disqualified from the Women’s 58 kg weightlifting event in which she participated upon the occasion of the Olympic Games London 2012,
3.) has the diploma obtained in the Women’s 58 kg weightlifting event withdrawn and is ordered to return the same.
4.) The IWF is requested to modify the results of the above-mentioned event accordingly and to consider any further action within its own competence.
5.) The National Olympic Committee of the Azerbaijani Republic shall ensure full implementation of this decision.
6.) The National Olympic Committee of the Azerbaijani Republic shall notably secure the return to the IOC, as soon as possible, of the diploma awarded in connection with the Women’s 58 kg weightlifting event to the Athlete.
7.) This decision enters into force immediately.
