Khadzhimurat Akkaev

Khadzhimurat Magomedovich Akkaev (Хаджимурат Магомедович Аккаев; born March 27, 1985, in Tyrnyauz, Kabardino-Balkaria, USSR) is a Russian weightlifter.

Career
Akkaev competed in the men's 94 kg category at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he won a silver medal. He is 178 cm/5 ft 10 tall and weighs 105 kg/231 lb.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he originally was awarded the bronze medal in the 94 kg category, with a total of 402 kg. In 2016, he was stripped of the medal after his sample tested positive for steroids.

Akkaev has moved up into −105 kg weight category as a replacement for Dmitry Lapikov and Dmitry Klokov. He won the 2011 European Weightlifting Championships in Kazan, with a total of 425 kg.

He became the 2011 World Champion in Paris, beating his compatriot Dmitry Klokov by 2 kg with a total of 430 kg.

Akkaev was scheduled to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 105 kg class but was forced to withdraw due to a back injury. On January 13, 2012, Akkaev was found to have failed a doping test prior to 2012 Olympic Games. He was provisionally suspended in January 2017, and finally in January 2019 he was disqualified for eight years, starting from 2 August 2016 until 1 August 2024.