Ilya Aleksandrovich Ilyin (Russian: ???? ????????????? ?????; born 24 May 1988) is a Kazakhstani weightlifter who has won four world championships.
On 12 December 2015 at the President's Cup in Grozny, Russia, Ilyin set two world records in the -105 kg class: in the clean and jerk (246 kg) and in the total of (437 kg).
Ilyin was named IWF World Weightlifter of the Year four times: in 2005, 2006, 2014 and 2015.
Originally a double Olympic champion from 2008 and 2012, Ilyin was officially stripped of, and ordered to return, both gold medals on 25 November 2016, as a result of his anti-doping samples from both competitions being retested and being found to contain banned anabolic steroids, namely stanozolol.
Author: Post of Kazakhstan
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