Mr. Tigran Martirosyan is an Armenian Athlete competing in the Men’s 69kg weightlifiting event at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
In 2016, the IOC decided to perform further analyses on certain samples collected during the 2008 Olympic Games. These additional analyses were performed with analytical methods which were not available in 2008.
In May 2016 the International Olympic Committee reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Athlete after his 2008 A and B samples tested positive for the prohibited substances dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol) and stanozolol. After notification the Athlete submitted that he accepted the test results, he waived his right to be heard and did not file a statement in his defence.
With the positive test results the IOC Disciplinary Commission decides on 29 August 2016 that the Athlete Tigran Martirosyan:
1.) is found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to the IOC Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing in 2008 (presence and/or use, of a Prohibited Substance or its Metabolites or Markers in an athlete’s bodily specimen),
2.) is disqualified from the Men’s 69kg weightlifting event in which he participated upon the occasion of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008,
3.) has the bronze medal, the diploma and the medallist pin obtained in the Men’s 69kg weightlifting event withdrawn and is ordered to return same.
4.) The IWF is requested to modify the results of the above-mentioned event accordingly and to consider any further action within its own competence.
5.) The National Olympic Committee of Armenia shall ensure full implementation of this decision.
6.) The National Olympic Committee of Armenia shall notably secure the return to the IOC, as soon as possible, of the medal, the medallist pin and the diploma awarded in connection with the Men’s 69kg weightlifting event to the Athlete.
7.) This decision enters into force immediately.
