In the 69 kg category, Evstyukhina won the silver medal at the 2005 Junior World Championships, and the gold medal at the 2006 Junior World Championships. In the women's -75 kg class at the
2006 World Weightlifting Championships, Evstyukhina won the silver medal, finishing behind
Cao Lei. She
snatched 122 kg and
clean and jerked an additional 145 kg for a total of 267 kg, 1 kg behind the winner Cao. At the
2007 World Weightlifting Championships she won the bronze medal in the 75 kg category, with a total of 278 kg. She also initially was awarded the bronze medal in the 75 kg category at the
2008 Summer Olympics, with a total of 264 kg. She competed at the
2012 Summer Olympics, but failed to snatch the initial weight. On 31 August 2016, the International Olympic Committee confirmed that Evstyukhina had been disqualified from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Reanalysis of Evstyukhina's samples from Beijing 2008 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substances
dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol) and
EPO. As a result, her results were expunged, the athlete was disqualified and her bronze medal removed. Retested samples from the original gold medalist Cao Lei in the same event at the 2008 Olympics also returned positive and her medal was also withdrawn. The fate of Evstyukhina's other medals following the 2008 positive sample is to be decided by the IWF. ==References==