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Ilya Ilyin

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Ilya Aleksandrovich Ilyin is a retired Kazakhstani weightlifter, born on 24 May 1988, who won four world championships and was regarded as one of the greatest weightlifters of all time. He was named IWF World Weightlifter of the Year four times, in 2005, 2006, 2014 and 2015. In December 2015 at the President's Cup in Grozny he set two world records in the 105 kg class, lifting 246 kg in the clean and jerk and 437 kg in the total. He was originally a two-time Olympic gold medallist in 2008 and 2012 but was stripped of both golds on 25 November 2016 for doping violations found in retests. The English Wikipedia lead supports these facts.

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1988 1
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2-4 1
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