Galabin Pepov Boevski is a Bulgarian weightlifter.
18 Facts About Galabin Boevski
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Galabin Boevski was born in Knezha, and was both world and Olympic champion.
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Galabin Boevski was later suspended for eight years after failing drug tests.
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Galabin Boevski was arrested in October 2011 while trying to board a plane in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to Europe with 9 kilos of cocaine.
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Galabin Boevski made his senior international weightlifting debut at World Championship in Lahti, Finland in 1998.
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Galabin Boevski finished fourth in the total narrowly missing on a medal, but winning silver in the clean and jerk.
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Galabin Boevski became World champion for the second time in 2001, and European champion in 2002 and in 2003.
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Galabin Boevski won 6 out of 8 major senior weightlifting competitions in which he took part, failing to win just twice - the World Championship in Lahti, 1999, when he finished fourth and the World Championship in Warsaw, 2002 when he bombed out in the clean and jerk.
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In 2000 at the Summer Olympics in Sydney Galabin Boevski set his sixth and last world record of 196.5 kg in the process of winning the Olympic gold medal in the 69 kg category.
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Galabin Boevski served a two-year suspension between 1996 and 1998 after being caught and confessing to the use of anabolic steroids.
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In 2004 Galabin Boevski was banned for eight years for allegedly tampering with his urine samples in 2003.
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In 1999 Galabin Boevski was awarded 1st place in the annual survey Bulgarian Sportsperson of the Year.
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Galabin Boevski was third in the year 2000, and second in 2001.
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Galabin Boevski was allegedly recruited as a mule to smuggle illegal drugs from Brazil to Western Europe.
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In May 2012, Galabin Boevski was sentenced to 9 years and 4 months in prison by the Federal Court in Brazil.
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Until the end of his trial, Galabin Boevski maintained his position that he is absolutely innocent and is not a mule or a drug trafficker.
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Galabin Boevski supposed that he might have picked up the wrong suitcases intended for someone else.
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Subsequently, it was made clear that Galabin Boevski was expulsed from prison following a usual Brazilian procedure for expulsion of foreign prisoners.