Aleksandr Gennadiyevich Pogorelov (ru|Александр Геннадьевич Погорелов; born 10 January 1980 in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk Oblast) is a Russian decathlete.
In 2016, he was disqualified from the Beijing 2008 Olympics following reanalysis of his samples from the 2008 Olympics, resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance turinabol.[1] His results from 23 August 2008 till 29 February 2010 were annulled.
| Representing | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Munich, Germany | 8th | Decathlon | ||
| 2003 | Birmingham, England | 6th | Heptathlon | ||
| Paris, France | DNF | Decathlon | |||
| 2004 | Budapest, Hungary | 6th | Heptathlon | ||
| Athens, Greece | 11th | Decathlon | |||
| 2005 | Madrid, Spain | 2nd | Heptathlon | ||
| Götzis, Austria | 3rd | Decathlon | |||
| Helsinki, Finland | 5th | Decathlon | |||
| Talence, France | 2nd | Decathlon | |||
| 2006 | Moscow, Russia | 6th | Heptathlon | ||
| Gothenburg, Sweden | 4th | Decathlon | |||
| 2007 | Birmingham, England | 2nd | Heptathlon | ||
| 2008 | Götzis, Austria | 3rd | Decathlon | ||
| Beijing, China | DSQ (4th) | Decathlon | |||
| 2009 | Berlin, Germany | DSQ (3rd) | Decathlon | ||