Zulfiya Chinshanlo

Zulfiya Salakharqyzy Chinshanlo (Kazakh: Зүлфия Салахарқызы Чиншанло; Russian: Зульфия Салахаровна Чиншанло; Chinese: 赵常玲, born 25 July 1993) is a Kazakh weightlifter.[1] She set a world record in the clean and jerk on 29 July 2012 at the 2012 London Olympics by lifting 131 kg.[2][3]

Zulfiya Chinshanlo
Chinshanlo at the 2009 World Championships
Personal information
Birth name赵常玲 (Zhao Changling)
NationalityKazakhstan
Born (1993-07-25) 25 July 1993
ResidenceKazakhstan
Height1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight53 kg (117 lb)
Sport
Country Kazakhstan
SportWeightlifting
Event(s)53 kg
Coached byViktor Ni
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • Snatch: 98 kg (2014)
  • Clean and jerk: 134 kg (2014, WR)
  • Total: 232 kg (2014)
Medal record
Women's Weightlifting
Representing  Kazakhstan
Olympic Games
Disqualified2012 London-53 kg
World Championships
2009 Goyang-53 kg
2011 Paris-53 kg
2014 Almaty-53 kg
Asian Games
2010 Guangzhou-53 kg
2014 Incheon-53 kg
Youth Olympic Games
2010 Singapore-58 kg

However, the validity of her record and title was called into question by a positive blood test result for the banned steroids oxandrolone and stanozolol, and she was "provisionally suspended" by the International Weightlifting Federation.[4] Chinshanlo earned a gold medal at the 2014 World Championships. This was Kazakhstan's first podium finish at the competition.[5]

On 27 October 2016, the IOC stripped her of both her gold medal and world and Olympic records as a result of her doping positive.[6]

Athletic career

On 8 November 2012, Kazakhstan London Olympic champion Zulfiya Chinshanlo got the Olympic Council of Asia award as the best Asian athlete, along with Ilya Ilyin and Olga Rypakova.[7]

Zulfiya, according to her official profile, is an ethnic Dungan and speaks a Chinese language (Dungan language) as her first language.

According to Chinese official media Xinhua News, Zulfiya was born and grew up in Hunan Province, China, thus she has a Chinese name and can speak Chinese much more fluently than Russian. She emigrated to Kazakhstan in 2008 along with Maiya Maneza with the approval of Hunan sport officials[8] on a five-year lease contract. She returned to China in 2012.[1][9]

Chinese media wrote that the weightlifter received her Chinese ID in the Public Security Department of Changsha city on 22 October and was going to join the Chinese national team, because her 5-year contract with Kazakhstan allegedly expired.

But Kazakhstan sports authorities insist that Zulfiya Chinshanlo is a citizen of Kazakhstan:

"Zulfiya Chinshanlo is our sportswoman. I don’t know why foreign media is discussing a change of her citizenship. She is a citizen of Kazakhstan. She had been living and training in Kazakhstan since she was 14. No official claims have been submitted to our Agency or the Weightlifting Federation. Zulfiya was on vacation and decided to visit her relatives in China. After a break she will go back to training for the world championships and the next Olympics as a member of Kazakhstan national team," Agency for Sports and Physical Culture Talgat Yermegiyayev said.[10][11]

On 27 October 2012, Chinshanlo came back from China and announced:

"I would like to say that everything written about me in China is not true. I have proved it by coming back to Kazakhstan and being here right now. I would like to thank everyone who supported me. Once again, all these rumors are lies and I don’t want to return to discussing this issue again."[12]

However, according to official Kazakh records, Zulfiya was born 25 July 1993 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Her father Salakhar Chinshanlo is a businessman who speaks fluently both Russian and Dungan language.

Chinese media says her father is Guisheng Zhao (赵贵生), from Hunan Province, a baker running a bakery in her hometown - Daoxian (道县), who only speaks Mandarin Chinese, he also once said "bring my daughter back(from Kazakhstan)". And in the video we can see her contract with Kazakh. She and Yao Meili(Yao li) aka Maiya Maneza were sold to Kazakhstan,(reporters believe) for $25,000 each and then became Kazak citizens.[13] Chinshanlo rejected the claim.

2012 London Olympics
Chinshanlo on a 2013 stamp of Kazakhstan
Rank Athlete Group Body weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total
1 2 3 Result 1 2 3 Result
DSQ  Zulfiya Chinshanlo (KAZ)A52.7092929595125131135131226
 Hsu Shu-ching (TPE)A52.4191949696120123123123219
DSQ  Cristina Iovu (MDA)A52.7995999999115120125120219

Major results
Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Olympic Games
2012 London, United Kingdom53 kg92929531251311351226
World Championships
2009 Goyang, South Korea53 kg8787905120125129219
2011 Paris, France53 kg9397100120126130227
2014 Almaty, Kazakhstan53 kg959898127133134232
Asian Games
2010 Guangzhou, China53 kg90959721221301303219
2014 Incheon, South Korea53 kg93969631251321371228
Youth Olympic Games
2010 Singapore, Singapore58 kg90959721201251302225
World Youth Championships
2009 Chiang Mai, Thailand58 kg858992115123123207

In June 2016, IWF announced that retests of the samples taken from the 2012 Olympics indicated that Zulfiya Chinshanlo had tested positive for prohibited substances, namely Oxandrolone and Stanazolol. Three other Kazakhs failed the doping test: Ilya Ilyin, Maiya Maneza and Svetlana Podobedova.[14] They were disqualified and had their Olympic medals revoked on Oct 27, 2016.

See also

References
  1. Zulfiya Returns Home to Represent China. cri.cn. 24 October 2012
  2. "Zulfiya Chinshanlo". www.london2012.com. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  3. "Chinshanlo wins Olympic gold, breaks clean and jerk record". Eurosport.Yahoo.com. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
  4. "PUBLIC DISCLOSURES | International Weightlifting Federation". Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  5. Lee, Chin-wei; Wu, Lilian (11 November 2014). "Taiwanese weightlifter takes gold, two silvers at worlds". Central News Agency. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  7. "Chinshanlo and Ilyin named best athletes of Asia". Tengrinews.kz English. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
  8. "马内扎被曝辽宁出生 湖南官员称其出走经总局同意". sina.com.cn. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
  9. Weijue, Yan (30 July 2012) Skeleton in the closet of China's weightlifting hierarchy. China Daily.
  10. "Chinshanlo is a citizen of Kazakhstan: Talgat Yermegiyayev". Tengrinews.kz English. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  11. "China has not officialy [sic] requested Kazakhstan to return Chinshanlo". Tengrinews.kz English. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
  12. "Nothing China writes about me is true: Zulfiya Chinshanlo". Tengrinews.kz English. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
  13. http://sports.qq.com/original/inside/sd254.html
  14. IWF public disclosures
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