Natallia Mikhnevich

Personal information

Native name

Наталла міхневіч

Birth name

Natallia Kharanenka

Full name

Natallia Mikhneich

Nationality

Belarusian

Born

May 25, 1982 (age 34)
Nevinnomyssk, Soviet Union

Height

1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)

Weight

96 kg (212 lb)

Sport

Country

Belarus

Sport

Athletics

Event(s)

Shot Put

Achievements and titles

Personal best(s)

20.70 m (2008)

Medal record

Women's Athletics
Representing Belarus
Olympic Games
Disqualified	2008 Beijing	Shot put
European Championships
	2006 Gothenburg	Shot put
	2010 Barcelona	Shot put
Universiade
	2005 İzmir	Shot put

Updated on 25 November 2016.

Natallia Mikhnevich (Belarusian: Наталля Міхневіч, née Belarusian: Харанэка, Kharaneka; born May 25, 1982 in Nevinnomyssk, Russian SFSR) is a Belarusian shot putter.

Mikhnevich finished third at the 2000 World Junior Championships, but first appeared on the international athletics scene at the 2004 Olympics, where she finished fifth. She was also fifth at the World Athletics Final later that year, and in 2005 won the bronze medal. In 2006 she won the World Indoor Championships in Russia with a new personal best indoor throw of 19.84 metres. Her outdoor personal best is 20.70 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Grodno.

She originally won a silver medal in women's shot put at the 2008 Summer Olympics but in November 2016 was stripped of that medal after re-analysis of her drug sample tested positive for prohibited substances methandienone and stanozolol. Mikhnevich had previously served a two-year competition ban for the use of a prohibited substance, Stanozolol, lasting from 12 April 2013 to 11 April 2015.

Since March 2007 she is married to Belarusian shot putter Andrei Mikhnevich.

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