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| Full name | Marie Hanitra Roilya Ranaivosoa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 November 1990 Curepipe, Mauritius | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 47.96 kg (106 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Mauritius | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | National team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marie Hanitra Roilya Ranaivosoa (born 14 November 1990), commonly known as Roilya Ranaivosoa, is a Mauritian weightlifter of Malagasy descent, competing in the 48 kg category and representing Mauritius at international competitions.
She competed at several editions of the World Weightlifting Championships.[2] She participated at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the 58 kg event.[3]
She represented Mauritius at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She finished in 11th place in the women's 49 kg event.[4]
She won the silver medal in the women's 49 kg event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England.[5] In December 2022, she was elected as member of the IWF Athletes' Commission.[6]
However, her career has been marred by a breach of anti-doping regulations, resulting in her resignation from the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Athletes' Commission and subsequent sanctions.
Ranaivosoa's involvement in a doping scandal came to light when the International Testing Agency (ITA), responsible for conducting anti-doping procedures for the IWF, charged her with sample swapping and tampering. The alleged offence occurred in 2016, approximately four months before she participated in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where she finished ninth in the 48-kilogram category. The alleged sample swapping occurred during an out-of-competition control in Romania, where she was undergoing a training camp under the controversial Romanian Coach Urdas Constantin.
Following the charges, Ranaivosoa resigned from the IWF Athletes' Commission.
- ^ "Roilya Ranaivosoa". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 11 December 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
- ^ "2015 Weightlifting World Championships - Marie Hanitra Roilya Ranaivosoa". iwf.net. International Weightlifting Federation. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ "Weightlifting at the 2014 Commonwealth Games - Marie Hanitra Roilya Ranaivosoa". iwf.net. International Weightlifting Federation. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ "Women's 49 kg Results" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ Rowbottom, Mike (30 July 2022). "India's Chanu reigns supreme in women's weightlifting 49kg class". Inside the Games. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ Oliver, Brian (21 December 2022). "Three Olympic weightlifting champions and 700,000 Instagram followers - the new IWF Athletes Commission". Inside the Games. Retrieved 24 December 2022.