The information was revealed by the Ukrainian Weightlifting Federation (UWF): Oleksandr Pielieshenko, double European champion in the 85 kg category, was killed on Monday May 6 while fighting in the ranks of the army . He was 30 years old. “ It is with great sadness that we inform you that the heart of the deserving master of sports of Ukraine…. Oleksandr Pielieshenko stopped beating today », announced the body in a message published on its Facebook page. The former weightlifter, crowned European champion in 2016 and 2017, took 4th place at the Rio 2016 Games. But he was banned by the international federation after a positive doping test in 2018. Oleksandr Pielieshenko had joined the armed forces from the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
