Mitko Grablev

Bulgarian weightlifter

{{Infobox sportsperson | name = Mitko Grablev | image = | caption = | birth_date = September 21, 1964 (1964-09-21) (age 59) | birth_place = [[Panagyurishte))Bulgaria^[1] | headercolor = lightsteelblue | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates =

|- ! colspan="3" | Men's Weightlifting

|- ! colspan="3" | Representing Bulgaria

|- ! colspan="3" | Olympic Games

|- | | Disqualified|| | 1988 Seoul || | 56 kg

|- ! colspan="3" | World Weightlifting Championships

|- | | || | 1986 Sofia || | 56 kg

|- ! colspan="3" | European Weightlifting Championships

|- | | || | 1987 Reims || | 56 kg

|- | | || | 1988 Cardiff || | 56 kg

|- | | || | 1986 Karl-Marx-Stadt || | 56 kg

|- ! colspan="3" | IWF World Cup

|- | | || | 1987 Pazardzhik || | 60 kg

|- ! colspan="3" | Junior World Weightlifting Championships

|- | | || | 1984 Lignano Sabbiadoro || | 56 kg

|- ! colspan="3" | Junior European Weightlifting Championships

|- | | || | 1984 Lignano Sabbiadoro || | 56 kg

|- ! colspan="3" | Balkan Weightlifting Championships

|- | | || | 1983 Thessaloniki || | 56 kg

|- | | || | 1984 Kikinda || | 56 kg

|- | | || | 1985 Plovdiv || | 56 kg }} Mitko Todorov Grablev (Bulgarian: Митко Тодоров Гръблев) is a Bulgarian weightlifter who competed for Bulgaria. He is world and twice European champion and world record holder. He originally claimed the gold medal in Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 56 kg but was disqualified after he tested positive for furosemide. It became a scandal after another Bulgarian weightlifter Angel Guenchev, who also originally claimed a gold medal in weightlifting, was disqualified for failing drug testing and a positive result for the doping agent furosemide. The Bulgarian weightlifting team was forced to withdraw midway from the weightlifting competition.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

References

^ "Mitko Grablev". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
^ "HE Seoul Olympics: Weight Lifting; Team Lifted After 2d Drug Test Is Failed". The New York Times. 24 September 1998. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
^ "Bulgaria's weightlifters expelled from games". The Guardian. 23 September 2000. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
^ "The Seoul Games / Day 8: Bulgaria's Weightlifting Team Withdraws After Drug Suspensions". Los Angeles Times. 24 September 1988. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
^ "2nd Weightlifter Banned, Bulgaria Pulls Team". Washington Post. 24 September 1988. Retrieved 23 August 2016.