Weightlifting

Triple Olympic champion Halil Mutlu, of Turkey, returned to top flight competition after a two-year doping ban to win a silver medal at the European weightlifting championships. Mutlu won the snatch in the 56 kg group and finished with the same...

Triple Olympic champion Halil Mutlu, of Turkey, returned to top flight competition after a two-year doping ban to win a silver medal at the European weightlifting championships.

Mutlu won the snatch in the 56 kg group and finished with the same combined lift, 269 kg, as Igor Bour. The Moldovan took the bantamweight gold because of his lower body weight at the championships in Lignano, Italy.

Mutlu was banned in late 2005 for taking steroids. No lifter has won four Olympic gold medals.

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