Natallia Mikhnevich

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| fullname = Natallia Mikhneich

| birth_name = Natallia Kharaneka

| native_name = Наталла міхневіч

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|5|25}}

| birth_place = Nevinnomyssk, Soviet Union

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| weight = {{convert|96|kg|lb|abbr=on}}

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| sport = Athletics

| event = Shot Put

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| pb = 20.70 m (2008)

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Natallia Mikhnevich ({{langx|be|Наталля Міхневіч}}, née {{langx|be|Харанэка}}, 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.[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-doping-olympics-idUSKBN13K1Y6 "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.[http://www.iaaf.org/download/download?filename=9e9fcae7-9424-4289-9bdd-5f18c9568cb2.pdf&urlslug=List%20of%20athletes%20currently%20serving%20a%20period%20of%20ineligibility%20as%20a%20result%20of%20an%20Anti-Doping%20Rule%20Violation%20under%20IAAF%20Rules IAAF list of suspended athletes]

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

Achievements

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colspan="6"\|Representing {{BLR}}
1999	World Youth Championships \|Bydgoszcz, Poland \|bgcolor="silver" \| 2nd \|Shot put \|15.57 m
2000 \|World Junior Championships \|Santiago, Chile \|bgcolor="CC9966" \| 3rd \|Shot put \|16.40 m
rowspan=2\|2003 \|European U23 Championships \|Bydgoszcz, Poland \|bgcolor="gold" \| 1st \|Shot put	17.66 m
Universiade \|Daegu, South Korea \|5th \|Shot put \|16.82 m
rowspan=2\|2004 \|Olympic Games \|Athens, Greece \|5th \|Shot put \|18.96 m
World Athletics Final \|Monte Carlo, Monaco \|5th \|Shot put \|17.56 m
rowspan=3\|2005 \|World Championships \|Helsinki, Finland \|6th \|Shot put \|18.34 m
Universiade \|İzmir, Turkey \|bgcolor="gold" align="center" \| 1st \|Shot put \|18.86 m
World Athletics Final \|Monte Carlo, Monaco \|bgcolor=silver align="center" \| 2nd \|Shot put \|18.80 m
rowspan=4\|2006 \|World Indoor Championships \|Moscow, Russia \|bgcolor="gold" align="center" \| 1st \|Shot put \|19.84 PB
European Championships \|Gothenburg, Sweden \|bgcolor="gold" align="center" \| 1st \|Shot put \|19.43 m
World Athletics Final \|Stuttgart, Germany \|bgcolor="gold" align="center" \| 1st \|Shot put \|19.81 m
World Cup \|Athens, Greece \|4th \|Shot put \|19.06 m
2008 \|Olympic Games \|Beijing, China \|bgcolor="silver" align="center" \| 2nd \|Shot put \|20.28 m
2009 \|World Championships \|Berlin, Germany \|bgcolor="ffffff" \| 4th \|Shot put \|19.66 m
rowspan=3\|2010 \|World Indoor Championships \|Doha, Qatar \|bgcolor="silver" \| 2nd \|Shot put \|20.42 m
European Cup Winter Throwing \|Arles, France \|bgcolor="silver" \| 2nd \|Shot put \|19.55 m
European Championships \|Barcelona, Spain \|bgcolor="silver" \| 2nd \|Shot put \|19.53 m
2011 \|World Championships \|Daegu, South Korea \|11th \|Shot put \|18.47 m
2012 \|Olympic Games \|London, United Kingdom \|11th \|Shot put \|18.42 m
2015 \|World Championships \|Beijing, China \|8th \|Shot put \|18.24 m

colspan="6"|Representing {{BLR}}

1999

World Youth Championships

|Bydgoszcz, Poland

|bgcolor="silver" | 2nd

|Shot put

|15.57 m

2000

|World Junior Championships

|Santiago, Chile

|bgcolor="CC9966" | 3rd

|Shot put