Former Russian athlete Tatyana Tomashova has been stripped of her 2012 Olympic 1500m silver medal for doping, the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced on Tuesday.
Tomashova, now 49, was sanctioned after reanalysis at the end of 2021 of two out-of-competition tests, on June 21 and July 17, 2012, which revealed the presence of anabolic steroids.
She has also been handed a 10-year ban, having previously served a two-year suspension in 2008.
The two-time world champion originally finished fourth in the 1500m final in the London Olympics 12 years ago, but had been upgraded to silver after Turks Asli Cakir Alptekin and Gamze Bulut had their medals stripped for doping.
Bahrain’s Maryam Yusuf Jamal won the gold medal, despite crossing the line third behind Cakir Alptekin and Bulut.
