Natallia Mikhnevich (, née , Kharaneka; born May 25, 1982, in Nevinnomyssk, Russian SFSR) is a Belarusian shot putter.
Career 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."Doping-Ilyin stripped of Beijing, London weightlifting golds". reuters.com. 25 November 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016. 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.IAAF list of suspended athletes
Since March 2007 she is married to Belarusian shot putter Andrei Mikhnevich.
Achievements Representing 1999World Youth ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland 2ndShot put15.57 m2000World Junior ChampionshipsSantiago, Chile 3rdShot put16.40 m2003European U23 ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland 1stShot put17.66 mUniversiadeDaegu, South Korea5thShot put16.82 m2004Olympic GamesAthens, Greece5thShot put18.96 mWorld Athletics FinalMonte Carlo, Monaco5thShot put17.56 m2005World ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland6thShot put18.34 mUniversiadeİzmir, Turkey 1stShot put18.86 mWorld Athletics FinalMonte Carlo, Monaco 2ndShot put18.80 m2006World Indoor ChampionshipsMoscow, Russia 1stShot put19.84 PBEuropean ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden 1stShot put19.43 mWorld Athletics FinalStuttgart, Germany 1stShot put19.81 mWorld CupAthens, Greece4thShot put19.06 m2008Olympic GamesBeijing, China 2ndShot put20.28 m2009World ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany 4thShot put19.66 m2010World Indoor ChampionshipsDoha, Qatar 2ndShot put20.42 mEuropean Cup Winter ThrowingArles, France 2ndShot put19.55 mEuropean ChampionshipsBarcelona, Spain 2ndShot put19.53 m2011World ChampionshipsDaegu, South Korea11thShot put18.47 m2012Olympic GamesLondon, United Kingdom11thShot put18.42 m2015World ChampionshipsBeijing, China8thShot put18.24 m
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