Yuliya Shymechko
{{Short description|Ukrainian weightlifter (born 1988)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|October 24, 1988}}
| birth_place = Zhdanov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
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{{MedalSport | Women's weightlifting }}
{{MedalCountry | {{UKR}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}
{{Medal|DQ | 2012 London | –58 kg }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Championships }}
{{MedalSilver | 2009 Goyang | –58 kg }}
{{MedalCompetition | European Championships }}
{{MedalGold | 2015 Tbilisi | –63 kg }}
{{MedalSilver | 2009 Bucharest | –58 kg }}
{{MedalBronze | 2014 Tel Aviv | –63 kg }}
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Yuliya Kalina ({{langx|uk|Юлія Каліна}}; born October 24, 1988) is a Ukrainian weightlifter.{{cite web |title=Yuliya Kalina |url=http://www.london2012.com/athlete/kalina-yuliya-1050895/ |work=London 2012 |publisher=The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited |access-date=19 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502123621/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/kalina-yuliya-1050895/ |archive-date=2013-05-02}} She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's 58 kg.
Career
Kalina started weightlifting at the age of 12.[https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35663891 Weightlifter's journey from teenage mother to Olympic medallist], BBC News (26 February 2016) At 13 she joined Ukraine's junior weightlifting team. 2 years later Kalina became a single parent with one daughter, Myroslava (born in 2003).{{cite web |publisher=espreso.tv |script-title=uk:Чемпіонка Європи Юлія Каліна: Коли у Маріуполі стріляють, донька жартує, що це попкорн|url=http://espreso.tv/article/2015/04/22/chempionka_yevropy_yuliya_kalina_koly_u_mariupoli_strilyayut__donka_zhartuye__scho_ce_popkorn|language=uk |date=2016-03-14}} Myroslava lives with her grandmother in Mariupol, while her mother resides in Kyiv.
On 13 July 2016, IOC announced that Yuliya Kalina has been disqualified from the 2012 Summer Olympics and ordered to return the bronze medal from the 58 kg weightlifting event. Reanalysis of Kalina's samples from London 2012 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol).[https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-ukrainian-weightlifter-yulia-kalina-for-failing-anti-doping-test-at-london-2012 IOC sanctions Ukrainian weightlifter Yulia Kalina for failing anti-doping test at London 2012] She has been disqualified for two years until 10 June 2018.{{Cite web |url=http://sport.segodnya.ua/others/734574.html |title=Украинскую тяжелоатлетку Юлию Калину отстранили от Олимпиады-2016 |access-date=2016-07-18 |archive-date=2016-08-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820061235/http://sport.segodnya.ua/others/734574.html |url-status=dead }}
Since 1 May 2017, she is married to Ukrainian weightlifter Ihor Shymechko.{{Cite web |url=http://www.segodnya.ua/sport/others/1017426.html |title=Известные украинские тяжелоатлеты Шимечко и Калина поженились - Новости спорта - Спортсмены выигрывали медали на чемпионатах мира и Европы | СЕГОДНЯ |access-date=2017-05-05 |archive-date=2018-12-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181229075638/https://www.segodnya.ua/sport/others/1017426.html |url-status=dead }}
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Category:Ukrainian female weightlifters
Category:Sportspeople from Mariupol
Category:Olympic weightlifters for Ukraine
Category:Weightlifters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Category:Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases
Category:Doping cases in weightlifting
Category:Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals
Category:European Weightlifting Championships medalists
Category:World Weightlifting Championships medalists
Category:21st-century Ukrainian sportswomen
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