Romanian weightlifter
Gabriel Sîncrăian
![]() Sîncrăian (right) at the 2016 Olympics |
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Born | (1988-12-21) 21 December 1988 (age 35) Cluj-Napoca, Romania |
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Height | 174 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1] |
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Sport | Weightlifting |
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Club | SCM Bistrita |
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Gabriel Sîncrăian (born 21 December 1988) is a Romanian weightlifter who competes in the 85 kg weight division.
Career
He took part in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics and won a bronze medal in the same 85-kg event in 2016.[2] Sîncrăian won two more medals at the European championships in 2012 and 2016.[3]
On 13 October 2016, the IWF reported that Sincraian had tested positive for excess testosterone in a test connected to the Rio Olympics, and he was stripped of the medal.[4]
In November 2020, the reanalysed doping tests from the 2012 Summer Olympics turned out positive for metenolone and stanozolol as well.[5]
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