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Galabin Boevski
Galabin Pepov Boevski (Bulgarian: Гълъбин Пепов Боевски, born 19 December 1974) is a Bulgarian weightlifter. He was born in Knezha, and was both world and Olympic champion. He was later suspended for eight years after failing drug tests.
Boevski was sentenced to nine years and four months in prison in Brazil for cocaine trafficking. He was arrested in October 2011 while trying to board a plane in São Paulo, Brazil, to Europe with 9 kilos of cocaine. In October 2012, the appellate court of Brazil decided against reducing his sentence. On 23 October 2013, he returned to Bulgaria. Asked how, he did not comment. The Bulgarian government stated that the release was a unilateral act by Brazil and they do not know of any details.
In October 2021 he was once again arrested for trafficking cocaine, this time in Portugal, where he lives with his family. After being sentenced to six and a half years, he was released early, on 2 July 2024.
Galabin Boevski made his senior international weightlifting debut at World Championship in Lahti, Finland in 1998. He finished fourth in the total narrowly missing on a medal, but winning silver in the clean and jerk.
The following year he became both European and World champion in the lightweight class up to 69 kg in La Coruna Spain and Athens, Greece.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics he won the gold medal in the lightweight class beating by 5 kg his teammate Georgi Markov.
He became World champion for the second time in 2001, and European champion in 2002 and in 2003.
Galabin Boevski won 6 out of 8 major senior weightlifting competitions in which he took part, failing to win just twice - the World Championship in Lahti, 1999, when he finished fourth and the World Championship in Warsaw, 2002 when he bombed out in the clean and jerk.
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Galabin Boevski
Galabin Pepov Boevski (Bulgarian: Гълъбин Пепов Боевски, born 19 December 1974) is a Bulgarian weightlifter. He was born in Knezha, and was both world and Olympic champion. He was later suspended for eight years after failing drug tests.
Boevski was sentenced to nine years and four months in prison in Brazil for cocaine trafficking. He was arrested in October 2011 while trying to board a plane in São Paulo, Brazil, to Europe with 9 kilos of cocaine. In October 2012, the appellate court of Brazil decided against reducing his sentence. On 23 October 2013, he returned to Bulgaria. Asked how, he did not comment. The Bulgarian government stated that the release was a unilateral act by Brazil and they do not know of any details.
In October 2021 he was once again arrested for trafficking cocaine, this time in Portugal, where he lives with his family. After being sentenced to six and a half years, he was released early, on 2 July 2024.
Galabin Boevski made his senior international weightlifting debut at World Championship in Lahti, Finland in 1998. He finished fourth in the total narrowly missing on a medal, but winning silver in the clean and jerk.
The following year he became both European and World champion in the lightweight class up to 69 kg in La Coruna Spain and Athens, Greece.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics he won the gold medal in the lightweight class beating by 5 kg his teammate Georgi Markov.
He became World champion for the second time in 2001, and European champion in 2002 and in 2003.
Galabin Boevski won 6 out of 8 major senior weightlifting competitions in which he took part, failing to win just twice - the World Championship in Lahti, 1999, when he finished fourth and the World Championship in Warsaw, 2002 when he bombed out in the clean and jerk.