Ota Zaremba

Olympic athlete

1957 –

55

Who is Ota Zaremba?

Ota Zaremba is a Czechoslovak weightlifter, Olympic champion and world champion. He won gold medal in the heavyweight I class at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

After he ended his career, Zaremba admitted he used doping throughout his career with the acknowledgment of the sport officials and coaches. His statement confirmed that many sportspeople from the communist bloc of the Cold War used doping.

In 2010 Zaremba entered to the far-right Workers' Party of Social Justice.

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Born
Apr 22, 1957

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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