Azerbaijani-Romanian weightlifter Cristina Iovu, who competes in 53-kg division, won gold at the European Weightlifting Championships in 2012 and 2016, bronze at the Olympics in 2012 and silver at Universiade in 2013. She was stripped of her Olympic medal after her re-tested 2012 Olympics sample tested positive for Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone. In December 2018, IWF banned her until 2026 for Blood substitution.
Elina Danielian is an Armenian chess player who achieved the prestigious grandmaster title in 2010. A six-time Armenian women's champion, Danielian represented her country on 12 occasions during the Women's Chess Olympiads between 1992 and 2014. Elina Danielian helped her team win the European Team Chess Championship in 2003 before winning the European Individual Chess Championship in 2021.