Ota Zaremba (22 April 1957 to 23 January 2026) was a Czech weightlifter who represented Czechoslovakia. He won the gold medal in the heavyweight I class at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and was also a world champion. After he ended his career he admitted that he had used doping throughout it, with the acknowledgment of the sport officials and coaches. In 2010 he joined the far-right Workers' Party of Social Justice. He died on 23 January 2026 at the age of 68.
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