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

[3] He took part in the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2005 World Championships but failed to reach the global podium over this period.

In 2012 IAAF retested doping samples from the 2005 World Athletics Championships and Mikhnevich was found positive for 3 anabolic steroids: Clenbuterol, Methandienone and Oxandrolone.

[6] He set a national indoor record of 21.81 m in Mogilev, Belarus, and continued his good form with a win at the 2010 European Cup Winter Throwing meeting.

[8] All his results from August 2005 and onwards were later disqualified after re-tests showed he had doped at the 2005 World Athletics Championships, and in 2013 the IAAF banned him for life.

[1] His wife is fellow shot-putter Natallia Mikhnevich, who won a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games.