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Born |
Cahul, Moldova |
14 September 1988 |||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 94 kg (207 lb; 14.8 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Anatolie Cîrîcu (born September 14, 1988 in Cahul) is a Moldovan weightlifter.
Cîrîcu is the champion of the 2012 European Weightlifting Championships for the 94 kg category. He also participated in the 2011 European Weightlifting Championships, where he won the silver medal.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics he originally won the bronze medal in the men's 94kg category, lifting a total of 407 kg. On 27 July 2016, the IWF reported that, in the IOC's second wave of doping re-sampling, Cîrîcu had tested positive for the steroid dehydrochlormethyltestosterone. In November 2016, he was stripped of his Olympic medal.