Zoltán Kovács (weightlifter)

Zoltán Kovács
Personal information
Full name Zoltan Kovacs
Born (1977-08-24) 24 August 1977
Budapest, Hungary
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 102.32 kg (225.6 lb)
Sport
Country  Hungary
Sport Weightlifting
Weight class 105 kg
Club Budapest Honvéd
BKV Előre SC (Budapest)
Team National team
Updated on 28 September 2016.

Zoltan Kovacs (born 24 August 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian male weightlifter, competing in the 105 kg category and representing Hungary at international competitions. He participated at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 94 kg event and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the 105 kg event.[1] He competed at world championships, most recently at the 2001 World Weightlifting Championships.[2]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics he refused to give a sample for a doping test and was disqualified.[3][4]

Major results

3rd, bronze medalist(s) - 2001 European Championships Heavyweight class (412.5 kg)
Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Summer Olympics
2004 Greece Athens, Greece 105 kg N/A N/A DQ
2000 Australia Sydney, Australia 94 kg N/A N/A 6
World Championships
2001 Turkey Antalya, Turkey 105 kg 172.5 180 180 15 210 222.5 227.5 7 395 11
1999 Greece Piraeus, Greece 94 kg 175 175 175 11 210 210 215 8 390 10
1998 Finland Lahti, Finland 94 kg 165 170 172.5 10 210 210 210 --- 0 ---

References

  1. "Zoltán Kovács". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  2. "2001 Weightlifting World Championships – Zoltan Kovacs". iwf.net. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
  3. IOC: ANTI-DOPING RULES PROCEDURES & VIOLATIONS AT THE ATHENS 2004 OLYMPIC GAMES
  4. "Doping cases at the Athens Games – Olympic news- nbcsports.msnbc.com". MSNBC. 2004-08-29. Archived from the original on 2010-01-27. Retrieved 2012-07-24.


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