Viktoriya Anatoliïvna Pavlysh (; born 15 January 1969 in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a former track and field athlete who specialized in the shot put. Pavlysh was stripped of her 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships gold medal after she had tested positive for anabolic steroid stanozolol at the event in Maebashi, Japan. She claimed that she may have taken the drug to aid her recovery from injury. For this offence she received a two-year ban. Five years later at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Budapest, Hungary she won the title again only to fail the drug test for the same reason. She was again stripped of her title and banned from athletics for life. Whether because of her drug-use or not, Pavlysh was famed for her very muscular lower body. During a state television show her middle-thigh was measured at 98 cm and her calf at 65 cm. See also List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences References External links World Championships IAAF lifetime ban 1969 births Living people Sportspeople from Kharkiv Doping cases in athletics Ukrainian sportspeople in doping cases Soviet female shot putters Ukrainian female shot putters Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Ukraine Olympic athletes of the Unified Team World Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Indoor Championships winners