Natallia Mikhnevich (Belarusian: Наталля Міхневіч, née Belarusian: Харанэка, Kharaneka; born May 25, 1982, in Nevinnomyssk, Russian SFSR) is a Belarusian shot putter.

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Natallia Mikhnevich

Personal information
Native name	Наталла міхневіч
Birth name	Natallia Kharaneka
Full name	Natallia Mikhneich
Nationality	Belarusian
Born	(1982-05-25) May 25, 1982 (age 41) Nevinnomyssk, Soviet Union
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	96 kg (212 lb)
Sport
Country	Belarus
Sport	Athletics
Event	Shot Put
Achievements and titles
Personal best	20.70 m (2008)
Medal record Women's Athletics Representing  Belarus Olympic Games Disqualified 2008 Beijing Shot put European Championships 2006 Gothenburg Shot put 2010 Barcelona Shot put Universiade 2005 İzmir Shot put
Updated on 25 November 2016.

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Mikhnevich finished third at the 2000 World Junior Championships, but first appeared on the international athletics scene at the 2004 Olympics, where she finished fifth. She was also fifth at the World Athletics Final later that year, and in 2005 won the bronze medal. In 2006, she won the World Indoor Championships in Russia with a new personal best indoor throw of 19.84 metres. Her outdoor personal best is 20.70 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Grodno.

She originally won a silver medal in women's shot put at the 2008 Summer Olympics but in November 2016 was stripped of that medal after re-analysis of her drug sample tested positive for prohibited substances methandienone and stanozolol.^[1] Mikhnevich had previously served a two-year competition ban for the use of a prohibited substance, Stanozolol, lasting from 12 April 2013 to 11 April 2015.^[2]

Since March 2007 she is married to Belarusian shot putter Andrei Mikhnevich.