Vita Pavlysh

Personal information

Native name

Віктоҏія Анатоліївна Павпиш

Full name

Viktoriya Anatoliïvna Pavlysh

Nationality

Ukrainian

Born

(1969-01-15) 15 January 1969

Height

174 cm (5 ft 9 in)

Weight

85 kg (187 lb)

Sport

Country

Soviet Union (1987-1991)
Unified Team (1992)
Ukraine (1993-2004)

Sport

Athletics

Event

Shot put

Turned pro

1987

Retired

2004

Achievements and titles

Personal best

21.69 m (1998)

Medal record

Women's Athletics

Representing Ukraine
World Championships
	1997 Athens	Shot put
	2001 Edmonton	Shot put
	2003 Paris	Shot put
World Indoor Championships
	1997 Paris	Shot put
Disqualified	1999 Maebashi	Shot put
Disqualified	2004 Budapest	Shot put
European Championships
	1994 Helsinki	Shot put
	1998 Budapest	Shot put
European Indoor Championships
	2002 Vienna	Shot put
	1998 Valencia	Shot put
IAAF World Cup
	1998 Johannesburg	Shot put
World Athletics Final
	2003 Monte Carlo	Shot put
IAAF Grand Prix Final
	1997 Fukuoka	Shot put
	1993 London	Shot put
European Throwing Cup
	2001 Nice	Shot put
	2002 Pula	Shot put
	2004 Marsa	Shot put

Viktoriya Anatoliïvna Pavlysh (Ukrainian: Вікторія Анатопіївна Павпиш; born 15 January 1969 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a former Ukrainian track and field athlete who specialized in the shot put.

Pavlysh was stripped of her 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships gold medal after she had tested positive for anabolic steroid stanozolol at the event in Maebashi, Japan. She claimed that she may have taken the drug to aid her recovery from injury. For this offence she received a two-year ban.

Five years later at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Budapest, Hungary she won the title again only to fail the drug test for the same reason. She was again stripped of her title and banned from athletics for life.^[1]

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