GENEVA, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Russian weightlifting Oleg Perepetchenov was Tuesday stripped of his 77kg bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games for taking prohibited substances.
 
The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced in a statement on Tuesday that the weightlifter had violated the anti-doping rules but didn't mention the prohibited substance Perepetchenov took.

Turkish Reyhan Arabacioglu, who finished fourth in Athens, will inherit the bronze medal that withdrawn from the Russian.

Perepetchenov, who was born in Uzbekistan, won the silver medals at the world championships in 2001 and 2002.

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