Valentin Hristov (weightlifter born 1956)
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Valentin Hristov (Bulgarian: Валентин Христов, born 16 March 1956) is a retired Bulgarian heavyweight weightlifter. He is best known for being the first weightlifter to be disqualified from the modern Olympic Games for doping after anabolic steroid testing was introduced at the 1976 Games. (Correction, Valentin Hristov is not the first weightlifter stripped from his gold medal at the 1976 Olympics. The first gold medalist stripped at that Olympics was the Polish weightlifter in the 67.5 kg. class Zbignew Kaczmarek.) later went on to claim the silver at the 1980 Olympics. Hristov won the world and European titles in 1975 and 1977 and placed second in 1979. In 1975–76 he set nine ratified world records: three in the snatch, four in the clean and jerk and two in the total.
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16 March 1956 (age 69) Pernik, Bulgaria
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