15 Facts About Andrei Mikhnevich

Andrei Anatolyevich Mikhnevich is a Belarusian shot putter with a personal best of 21.69 metres, set in 2003.

Andrei Mikhnevich started competing at global championships in 1999 and attended the 2000 Summer Olympics, but he was banned for a doping offence in 2001.

Andrei Mikhnevich returned after a two-year suspension and promptly became the shot put world champion at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics.

Andrei Mikhnevich took part in the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2005 World Championships but failed to reach the global podium over this period.

Andrei Mikhnevich was banned from sports for life, and the results from 6 August 2005 onwards were annulled and was stripped of all of his medals from that period.

Andrei Mikhnevich made his first major championships appearance at the 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships and he finished eighth overall.

Andrei Mikhnevich attended the 1999 World Championships in Athletics that year but did not reach the final.

Andrei Mikhnevich received a two-year suspension for a doping offence on 7 August 2001.

Andrei Mikhnevich had tested positive for Human chorionic gonadotropin at the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton and his results from the championships were annulled.

Andrei Mikhnevich's best performance in the following two years was a fifth place at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Andrei Mikhnevich followed this with a bronze medal at the 2007 World Championships.

Andrei Mikhnevich sank back down the rankings at the 2009 World Championships, finishing seventh, but he gained his second indoor silver at the 2010 World Indoors a few months later.

Andrei Mikhnevich followed that victory by winning the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona.

Andrei Mikhnevich's wife is fellow shot-putter Natallia Mikhnevich, who won a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games.

Andrei Mikhnevich was handed a two-year ban from sports after she tested positive for Stanozolol in 2013.