Mitko Grablev

Mitko Grablev

Personal information
Born	September 21, 1964 (1964-09-21) (age 61) Pazardzhik or Panagyurishte [contradiction], Bulgaria
Medal record Men's Weightlifting Representing Bulgaria Olympic Games Disqualified 1988 Seoul 56 kg World Weightlifting Championships Gold medal – first place 1986 Sofia 56 kg European Weightlifting Championships Gold medal – first place 1987 Reims 56 kg Gold medal – first place 1988 Cardiff 56 kg Bronze medal – third place 1986 Karl-Marx-Stadt 56 kg IWF World Cup Gold medal – first place 1987 Pazardzhik 60 kg Junior World Weightlifting Championships Gold medal – first place 1984 Lignano Sabbiadoro 56 kg Junior European Weightlifting Championships Gold medal – first place 1984 Lignano Sabbiadoro 56 kg Balkan Weightlifting Championships Gold medal – first place 1983 Thessaloniki 56 kg Gold medal – first place 1984 Kikinda 56 kg Gold medal – first place 1985 Plovdiv 56 kg

Mitko Todorov Grablev (Bulgarian: Митко Тодоров Гръблев) is a Bulgarian weightlifter who competed for Bulgaria. He is a twice European champion and a world record holder. He originally claimed the gold medal in Weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 56 kg but was disqualified after he tested positive for furosemide. It became a scandal after another Bulgarian weightlifter Angel Guenchev, who also originally claimed a gold medal in weightlifting, was disqualified for failing a drug test and resulting to a positive result for the doping agent furosemide. The Bulgarian weightlifting team was forced to withdraw midway from the weightlifting competition.