Zinaida Stahurskaya
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Zinaida Vladimirovna Stahurskaya (9 February 1971 – 25 June 2009) was a Belarus
ian racing cyclist who was the world champion in 2000. Stahurskaya was born in Vitebsk
. She was banned in 2006 for two years for a drugs test that she failed in 2005. She had earlier been suspended for drugs offences in 2001 for four months and 2003 for two months. Stahurskaya died in 2009 in a training incident.
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
ian racing cyclist who was the world champion in 2000. Stahurskaya was born in Vitebsk
Vitebsk
Vitebsk, also known as Viciebsk or Vitsyebsk , is a city in Belarus, near the border with Russia. The capital of the Vitebsk Oblast, in 2004 it had 342,381 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth largest city...
. She was banned in 2006 for two years for a drugs test that she failed in 2005. She had earlier been suspended for drugs offences in 2001 for four months and 2003 for two months. Stahurskaya died in 2009 in a training incident.