| Iryna Kulesha | |
| Fullname: | Iryna Mikhailovna Kulesha |
| Birth Date: | [1] |
| Birth Place: | Brest, Belarus |
| Nationality: | Belarus |
| Height: | 5 ft 4 in (163 cm) |
| Weight: | 165 lbs (75 kg) |
| Headercolor: | lightsteelblue |
Iryna Mikhailauna Kulesha (Belarusian: Ірына Міхайлаўна Кулеша, born 26 June 1986 in Brest, Belarus or in Oberovshina)[1] is a Belarusian weightlifter.
Kulesha originally won an Olympic bronze medal in the under 75 kg weight category at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[2] [3] She was coached by Viktor Shilay.[1] On 21 November 2016, the IOC disqualified six medal winners in weightlifting for failing doping tests at the 2012 Games, including Kulesha, who was stripped of her medal.[4]
Four days earlier, on 17 November 2016, the IOC had disqualified Kulesha from the 2008 Olympic Games and struck her results from the record for failing a drugs test in a re-analysis of her doping sample from 2008.[5]