Banned Russian athlete and 2012 Olympic 400 metres hurdles champion Natalia Antyukh will lose her gold medal from the London Video games after she didn’t enchantment in opposition to her doping ban.
The 41-year-old gained the 400 metres hurdles title on the 2012 Olympics, defeating American Lashinda Demus.
Demus can be upgraded to gold as soon as the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) acts on the ruling introduced by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Wednesday.
Zuzana Hejnova of the Czech Republic and Kaliese Spencer of Jamaica are in line to obtain silver and bronze.
In October, the AIU had disqualified Antyukh’s outcomes from July 2012 to June 2013 “for using a prohibited substance/methodology”.
The ruling grew to become last and binding when Antyukh did not enchantment in opposition to the choice throughout the stipulated 45 days.
“The IOC could now proceed with the reallocation of medals and the replace of the IOC database,” the AIU wrote to the IOC.
Antyukh is serving a four-year ban till 2025 for breaking anti-doping guidelines. The ruling was handed down final 12 months by the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport.
A number of Russian athletes have had their medals from the 2012 Video games stripped on account of anti-doping rule violations.
On the London Video games, Antyukh completed in 52.70 seconds, reducing her private greatest by 0.22sec to beat Demus by .07sec.
In her semi-final, which she gained, Antyukh competed in opposition to Australia’s Lauren Boden, who completed eighth and didn’t qualify for the ultimate.
with AP
