Two Russian athletes Tatyana Lebedeva and Maria Abakumova have been stripped off three world track championship medals because of doping.
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), which handles doping cases in track and field, said Abakumova has had her javelin results from August 2008-August 2012 erased, stripping her of her world championship bronze from 2009 and gold from 2011 which will result in Czech thrower Barbora Spotakova to inherit the 2011 world title.
Lebedeva, who is now a senator in Russia, had her results from August 2008-August 2010 erased, including a silver medal from the long jump at the 2009 worlds.
According to the twitter handle of AIU it said, “Tatyana Lebedeva has accepted her sanction having found guilty of Presence of a Prohibited Substance (DHCMT) (Article 2.1) following retesting of her samples collected during the 2008 Beijing”.
#Russian #Jumper Tatyana Lebedeva has accepted her sanction having found guilty of Presence of a Prohibited Substance (DHCMT) (Article 2.1) following retesting of her samples collected during the 2008 Beijing #Olympic Games. #AIUNews #athletics
https://t.co/bgkh8SNc2k— AIU (@AIU_Athletics) September 5, 2018
Abakumova and Lebedeva had already been disqualified from the 2008 Olympics after a 2016 retest of their samples came back positive. The process was delayed due to a legal appeal they had made.
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