Zulfiya Salakharqyzy Chinshanlo (Kazakh: Zülfia Salaharqyzy Çinşanlo; Dungan and Russian: Зульфия Салахаровна Чиншанло; Chinese: 赵常玲 Zhào Cháng Líng; born 25 July 1993) is a Kazakhstani weightlifter.
[2][3] However, the validity of her record and title was called into question by a positive blood test result for the banned steroids oxandrolone and stanozolol, and she was "provisionally suspended" by the International Weightlifting Federation.
[4] On 27 October 2016, the IOC stripped her of both her gold medal and world and Olympic records as a result of her doping positive.
According to Chinese official media Xinhua News, Zulfiya was born and grew up in Hunan Province, China.
She emigrated to Kazakhstan in 2008 along with Maiya Maneza with the approval of Hunan sport officials[10] on a five-year lease contract.
After a break she will go back to training for the world championships and the next Olympics as a member of Kazakhstan national team," Agency for Sports and Physical Culture Talgat Yermegiyayev said.
In June 2016, IWF announced that retests of the samples taken from the 2012 Olympics indicated that Zulfiya Chinshanlo had tested positive for prohibited substances, namely Oxandrolone and Stanazolol.