Nizami Pashayev

Nizami Pashayev
Medal record
Men's Weightlifting
Representing  Azerbaijan
World Championships
2001 Antalya 94 kg
2002 Warsaw 94 kg
2005 Doha 94 kg
2009 Goyang 94 kg
European Championships
2001 Trenčín 94 kg
2002 Antalya 94 kg
Islamic Solidarity Games
2005 Mecca 105 kg

Nizami Pashayev (born February 2, 1981 in Gadabay) is a retired Azerbaijani athlete in weightlifting.

Career

He won two World Weightlifting Championships titles and one European Weightlifting Championships title, when he hauled 402 kilograms in total to take the overall gold in the men's 94 kg category.[1][2]

Pashayev totalled 402 kg on May 20, 2006, but it was the 25-year-old's snatch winning effort of 186 kg that helped him gain the title ahead of Poland's Szymon Kolecki who was second in the clean and jerk with 217 kg. Later that year Pashayev was disqualified for two years after failing a WADA drugs test. He lost his European title and was fined $2,400.[3]

On 17 November 2016 the IOC disqualified Pashayev from the 2008 Olympic Games and struck his results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of his doping sample from 2008.[4]

References

Olympic Games
Preceded by
Namig Abdullayev
Flagbearer for  Azerbaijan
Athens 2004
Succeeded by
Farid Mansurov


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