Doping: Three Kazakh weightlifters stripped of gold medals from 2012
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[October 27, 2016]
ZURICH (Reuters) - Three Kazakh
weightlifters have been stripped of the gold medals they won at the
2012 London Olympics after failing doping tests in the re-analysis
of samples, the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday.
The three were Zulfiya Chinshanlo in the women's 53kg category,
Maiya Maneza in the women's 63kg and Svetlana Podobedova, who
competed in the 75kg event.
They were among eight athletes disqualified from the Games on
Thursday as part of the IOC's re-testing of samples.
A total of 98 samples have come back as positive for banned
substances in re-analysis from the 2008 and 2012 Games as the IOC
attempted to root out cheats and stop them from going to this year's
Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
The other five athletes were Belarussian weightlifters Marina
Shkermankova, who won bronze in the 69kg category, Dzina Sazanavets
and Yauheni Zharnasek as well as Russian pole vaulter Dmitry
Starodubtsev and hammer thrower Kirill Ikonnikov.
All eight tested positive for turinabol or stanozolo, anabolic
steroids that boost performances or speed up recovery from injury.
On Wednesday the IOC announced nine other positive cases from the
2008 Beijing Olympics, including six medallists, all of whom also
tested positive for steroids.
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Kazakhstan's Zulfiya Chinshanlo poses with her gold medal of the
women's 53Kg weightlifting competition at the London 2012 Olympic
Games July 29, 2012. REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler
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The IOC stores samples for a decade to test with newer methods or to
analyze performance-enhancing substances that have yet to be
identified.
The vast majority of the 98 athletes who have tested positive are
from Eastern European countries or Russia.
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(Writing by Brian Homewood and Karolos Grohmann; Editing by Michael
Shields)
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