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Long-distance runner Inga Abitova and 400-metre
specialists Anastasia Kapachinskaya and Denis Alekseyev had
already been disqualified by the International Olympic Committee
last year after their samples from Beijing were found to contain
banned substances, including the steroid turinabol.
Alekseyev won bronze in Beijing as part of the Russian men's
4x400-metre relay team, but the IOC ordered that he and his
teammates be stripped of their medals.
His results between August 2008 and June 2013 are annulled, the
Russian athletics federation said in a statement.
Kapachinskaya and her 4x400-metre relay teammates were also
stripped of their silver medals from Beijing. Her results
starting from August 2008 are annulled, the federation said.
The suspensions handed to Abitova and Alekseyev will end next
year because they include two-year bans they had previously
served for doping offences, the federation said.
The International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF)
provisionally suspended Russian track and field athletes from
international competition in 2015 over a report by the World
Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) alleging rampant state-sponsored
doping in the sport.
Russia's track and field team, with the exception of one athlete
based in the United States, was banned from the Rio Olympics
last summer. The majority of Russian athletes are also set to
miss the world championships in London in August.
In recent months the IAAF has cleared a total of 15 Russian
athletes, including 2015 world champion hurdler Sergey
Shubenkov, for having demonstrated that they are training in an
environment that meets its anti-doping requirements.
(Reporting by Moscow newsroom; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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