Roxana Cocoș (Romanian pronunciation: [rokˈsana koˈkoʃ]; born 5 June 1989 in Bucharest)[1] is a Romanian weightlifter.
[3] On 25 November 2020, the reanalysed doping tests from the 2012 Summer Olympics turned out positive for metenolone and stanozolol, and she was stripped of the medal.
[4] In June 2021, a report by the International Testing Agency on doping violations between 2009 and 2019 reviewed her case and concluded that there are "strong reasons to think" the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) was aware of urine samples being swapped by weightlifters and that president of the IWF Tamás Aján and IWF vice-president Nicu Vlad allowed her to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics believing that they could hide her use of a banned substance.
[5][6] Aján and Vlad have been charged with anti-doping rule violations.
[7] In 2022 the International Weightlifting Federation annulled her results from between 20 July 2010 and 10 February 2020 and banned her from the sport for life [8] This biographical article relating to weightlifting in Romania is a stub.