Intigam Zairov

Intigam Zairov
Personal information
Born 21 April 1985 (1985-04-21) (age 33)
Baku, Azerbaijan

Intigam Zairov (born 21 April 1985 in Baku) is an Azerbaijani weightlifter he won silver medal at 2009 European Weightlifting Championships in Bucharest.

He competed for Azerbaijan at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.[1]

In 2016, he was disqualified from the Beijing 2008 Olympics following reanalysis of his samples from the 2008 Olympics, resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance turinabol.[2]

On 12 January 2017 it was announced that because of a doping violation he had been disqualified from the 2012 Olympic Games.[3]

References

  1. "Intigam Zairov". London2012.com. Archived from the original on 2013-05-02.
  2. "IOC sanctions six athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  3. "IOC sanctions eight athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 and London 2012". IOC. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  • Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "İntiqam Zairov (Intigam Zairov)". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2013-10-02.


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