The International Weightlifting Federation has sanctioned eight nations due to their athletes testing positive for performance enhancing drugs multiple times. Overall Azerbaijan lost one male and one female quotas, Belarus lost one male quota, Kazakhstan lost one male and one female quotas, Moldova lost two male quotas, North Korea lost one male and one female quotas, Romania lost one male quota, Russia lost one male and one female quotas and Uzbekistan lost one female quota.
Sanctions could be increased to Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia for a total ban depending on the result of the investigation from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
Unsurprisingly this will cause a massive change in the World Championship Rankings for Olympic quotas. Sadly the IWF has not published the change in rankings due to wanting to finalize everything. They however, published the reallocation of those quotas lost by the offending nations along with the six women’s quotas that were not allocated from the individual rankings.
The following nations were given a reallocation quota. For the men they are; Chile, Greece, Guatemala, Israel, Kenya, Nauru, Qatar and Sri Lanka. For the women they are; Argentina, Finland, Iraq, Latvia, Mauritius, Morocco, Peru, Solomon Islands, Sweden, United Arab Emirates and Uruguay.
Net Quotas by Nations
- Argentina – 1
- Chile – 1
- Finland – 1
- Greece – 1
- Guatemala – 1
- Iraq – 1
- Israel – 1
- Kenya – 1
- Latvia – 1
- Mauritius – 1
- Morocco – 1
- Nauru – 1
- Peru – 1
- Qatar – 1
- Solomon Islands – 1
- Sri Lanka – 1
- Sweden – 1
- United Arab Emirates – 1
- Uruguay – 1
- Belarus – -1
- Romania – -1
- Uzbekistan – -1
- Azerbaijan – -2
- Kazakhstan – -2
- Moldova – -2
- North Korea – -2
- Russia – -2
References
- IWF. Strong statement by the IWF Executive Board. Access on June 23 2016.
- IWF. Second day of the IWF Executive Board meeting in Tbilisi. Access on June 23 2016.