World weightlifting champion commits suicide at 35

World weightlifting champion Vladimir Sedov from Kazakhstan has died at the age of 35, TengriSport reports, citing the press service of the Zhetysuz Oblast Police Department. The body of the athlete was found at his place of residence in the village of Dostyk, Karatal district.

According to his family, the weightlifter committed suicide. A pre-trial investigation into the suicide is being conducted under Article 105 of the Criminal Code "Driving to Suicide".

Sedov has won the Kazakhstani championship four times in his career, setting a national record in 2010 (consecutively 189kg and 191kg, 222kg - a total of 413kg). In 2008, he took part in the Summer Olympics in Beijing.

In 2009, he became the world champion at the World Championships in Korea with a total of 402 kilograms (185 kg clean and 217 kg jerk and shove).

At the 2014 World Championships, he repeated the world record set in the last century with a clean and jerk of 188 kg, won the small gold medal and also became a silver medallist. Sedov's track record includes a bronze medal at the 2013 World Championships.

In 2016, during a retest of Sedov's samples from the 2008 Olympic Games, stanozolol was found in them. As a result, all of the weightlifter's results from 2008 to 2016 were cancelled.

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