Nastassia Novikava

Nastassia Novikava (Belarusian: Настасся Новікава) (born 16 November 1981 in Zhodzina, Byelorussian SSR) is a world championship winning weightlifter from Belarus.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics Novikava ranked fifth in the 53 kg class.

[1] She initially won the bronze medal in the women's 53 kg event at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

[4] In 2016, she was stripped of her 2008 Olympic medal after a retest of her doping sample tested positive for steroids.

[5] This biographical article relating to weightlifting in Belarus is a stub.