Azerbaijani weightlifter

Nizami Pashayev (born February 2, 1981 in Gadabay) is a retired Azerbaijani athlete in weightlifting.

Career

He won two World Weightlifting Championships *les and one European Weightlifting Championships *le, when he hauled 402:kilograms in total to take the overall gold in the men's 94:kg category.

Pashayev totalled 402:kg on May 20, 2006, but it was the 25-year-old's snatch winning effort of 186:kg that helped him gain the *le ahead of Poland's Szymon Kolecki who was second in the clean and jerk with 217:kg. Later that year Pashayev was disqualified for two years after failing a WADA drugs test. He lost his European *le and was fined $2,400.

On 17 November 2016 the IOC disqualified Pashayev from the 2008 Olympic Games and struck his results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-*ysis of his doping sample from 2008.

References

External links

• Sports-Reference.com
• Nizami Pashayev at Lift Up
• IWRP - profile
• IWF - Results profile