Mitko Grablev
{{Infobox sportsperson | name = Mitko Grablev | image = | caption = | birth_date = September 21, 1964 (age 59) | birth_place = [[Panagyurishte))Bulgaria[1] | headercolor = lightsteelblue | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates =
|- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#eeeeee;color:inherit;" | Men's Weightlifting
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! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#eeeeee;color:inherit;" class="adr" | Representing 
Bulgaria
|- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#cccccc;color:inherit;" | Olympic Games
|- | style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;color:inherit;background-color:pink" | Disqualified|| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1988 Seoul || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 56 kg
|- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#cccccc;color:inherit;" | World Weightlifting Championships
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| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;color:inherit;" | 
|| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1986 Sofia || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 56 kg
|- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#cccccc;color:inherit;" | European Weightlifting Championships
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| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;color:inherit;" | || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1987 Reims || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 56 kg
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| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;color:inherit;" | || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1988 Cardiff || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 56 kg
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| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;color:inherit;" | 
|| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1986 Karl-Marx-Stadt || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 56 kg
|- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#cccccc;color:inherit;" | IWF World Cup
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| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;color:inherit;" | || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1987 Pazardzhik || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 60 kg
|- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#cccccc;color:inherit;" | Junior World Weightlifting Championships
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| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;color:inherit;" | || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1984 Lignano Sabbiadoro || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 56 kg
|- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#cccccc;color:inherit;" | Junior European Weightlifting Championships
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| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;color:inherit;" | || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1984 Lignano Sabbiadoro || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 56 kg
|- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#cccccc;color:inherit;" | Balkan Weightlifting Championships
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| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;color:inherit;" | || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1983 Thessaloniki || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 56 kg
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| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;color:inherit;" | || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1984 Kikinda || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 56 kg
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| style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;color:inherit;" | || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 1985 Plovdiv || style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;" | 56 kg
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Mitko Todorov Grablev (Bulgarian: Митко Тодоров Гръблев) is a Bulgarian weightlifter who competed for Bulgaria.
He is world and twice European champion and world record holder. He originally claimed the gold medal in Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 56 kg but was disqualified after he tested positive for furosemide. It became a scandal after another Bulgarian weightlifter Angel Guenchev, who also originally claimed a gold medal in weightlifting, was disqualified for failing drug testing and a positive result for the doping agent furosemide. The Bulgarian weightlifting team was forced to withdraw midway from the weightlifting competition.[2][3][4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Mitko Grablev". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^ "HE Seoul Olympics: Weight Lifting; Team Lifted After 2d Drug Test Is Failed". The New York Times. 24 September 1998. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^ "Bulgaria's weightlifters expelled from games". The Guardian. 23 September 2000. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^ "The Seoul Games / Day 8: Bulgaria's Weightlifting Team Withdraws After Drug Suspensions". Los Angeles Times. 24 September 1988. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^ "2nd Weightlifter Banned, Bulgaria Pulls Team". Washington Post. 24 September 1988. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
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