Doping at the Olympic Games
Competitors at the Olympic Games have used banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs.
History edit
The use of performance-enhancing tactics or more formally known as PEDs, and more broadly, the use of any external device to nefariously influence the outcome of a sporting event has been a part of the Olympics since its inception in Ancient Greece. One speculation as to why men were required to compete naked was to prevent the use of extra accoutrements and to keep women from competing in events specifically designed for men.[1] Athletes were also known to drink "magic" potions and eat exotic meats in the hopes of giving them an athletic edge on their competition.[2] If they were caught cheating, their likenesses were often engraved into stone and placed in a pathway that led to the Olympic stadium.[1] In the modern Olympic era, chemically enhancing one's performance has evolved into a sophisticated science, but in the early years of the Modern Olympic movement the use of performance-enhancing drugs was almost as crude as its ancient predecessors. For example, the winner of the marathon at the 1904 Games, Thomas Hicks, was given strychnine and brandy by his coach, even during the race.[3]
During the early 20th century, many Olympic athletes discovered ways to improve their athletic abilities by boosting testosterone. As their methods became more extreme, it became increasingly evident that the use of performance-enhancing drugs was not only a threat to the integrity of sport but could also have potentially fatal side effects on the athlete. The only Olympic death linked to athletic drug use occurred at the Rome Games of 1960. During the cycling road race, Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen fell from his bicycle and later died. A coroner's inquiry found that he was under the influence of amphetamine, which had caused him to lose consciousness during the race.[4] Jensen's death exposed to the world how endemic drug use was among elite athletes.[5] By the mid-1960s, sports federations were starting to ban the use of performance-enhancing drugs, and the IOC followed suit in 1967.[6]
The first Olympic athlete to test positive for the use of performance-enhancing drugs was Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, a Swedish pentathlete at the 1968 Summer Olympics, who lost his bronze medal for alcohol use,[7] "two beers" to steady his nerves.[8] Liljenwall was the only athlete to test positive for a banned substance at the 1968 Olympics, as the technology and testing techniques improved, the number of athletes discovered to be chemically enhancing their performance increased as well.
The most systematic case of drug use for athletic achievement is that of the East German Olympic teams of the 1970s and 1980s. In 1990, documents were discovered that showed many East German female athletes, especially swimmers, had been administered anabolic steroids and other drugs by their coaches and trainers. Girls as young as eleven were started on the drug regimen without consent from their parents. American female swimmers, including Shirley Babashoff, accused the East Germans of using performance-enhancing drugs as early as the 1976 Summer Games.[9] Babashoff's comments were dismissed by the international and domestic media as sour grapes since Babashoff, a clear favorite to win multiple gold medals, won three silver medals – losing all three times to either of the two East Germans Kornelia Ender or Petra Thümer, and one gold medal in a relay. There was no suspicion of cheating on the part of the East German female swimmers even though their medal tally increased from four silvers and one bronze in 1972 to ten golds (out of a possible 12), six silvers, and one bronze in 1976. No clear evidence was discovered until after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when the aforementioned documents proved that East Germany had embarked on a state-sponsored drug regimen to dramatically improve their competitiveness at the Olympic Games and other international sporting events. Many of the East German authorities responsible for this program have been subsequently tried and found guilty of various crimes in the German penal system.[10][11]
The report, titled "Doping in Germany from 1950 to today", details how the West German government helped fund a wide-scale doping program. West Germany encouraged and covered up a culture of doping across many sports for decades.[12] Doping of West German athletes was prevalent at the Munich Games of 1972, and at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.[13]
According to British journalist Andrew Jennings, a KGB colonel stated that the agency's officers had posed as anti-doping authorities from the International Olympic Committee to undermine doping tests and that Soviet athletes were "rescued with [these] tremendous efforts".[14] On the topic of the 1980 Summer Olympics, a 1989 Australian study said "There is hardly a medal winner at the Moscow Games, certainly not a gold medal winner, who is not on one sort of drug or another: usually several kinds. The Moscow Games might as well have been called the Chemists' Games."[14][15]
Documents obtained in 2016 revealed the Soviet Union's plans for a statewide doping system in track and field in preparation for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Dated prior to the country's decision to boycott the Games, the document detailed the existing steroids operations of the program, along with suggestions for further enhancements.[16] The communication, directed to the Soviet Union's head of track and field, was prepared by Dr. Sergei Portugalov of the Institute for Physical Culture. Portugalov was also one of the main figures involved in the implementation of the Russian doping program prior to the 2016 Summer Olympics.[16]
China conducted a state sanctioned doping programme on athletes in the 1980s and 1990s.[17] In a July 2012 interview published by the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, Chen Zhangho, the lead doctor for the Chinese Olympic team at the Los Angeles, Seoul and Barcelona Olympics told of how he had tested hormones, blood doping and steroids on about fifty elite athletes.[18] Chen also accused the United States, the Soviet Union and France of using performance-enhancing drugs at the same time as China.[18]
A very publicized steroid-related disqualification at an Olympic Games was the case of Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, who won the Men's 100 metres at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, but tested positive for stanozolol. His gold medal was subsequently stripped and awarded to runner-up Carl Lewis, who had tested positive for stimulants at the U.S. Olympic Trials. The highest level of stimulant Lewis recorded was 6 ppm, which was regarded as a positive test in 1988 but is now regarded as a negative test. The acceptable level was later raised to ten parts per million for ephedrine and twenty-five parts per million for other substances.[19][20] According to the IOC rules at the time, positive tests with levels lower than 10 ppm were cause of further investigation but not immediate ban. Neal Benowitz, a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco who is an expert on ephedrine and other stimulants, agreed that "These [levels] are what you'd see from someone taking cold or allergy medicines and are unlikely to have any effect on performance."[19] The IAAF acknowledged that at the 1988 Olympic Trials the USOC followed the correct procedures in dealing with positive findings for ephedrine and ephedrine-related compounds in low concentration.
Response edit
In the late 1990s, the IOC took the initiative in a more organized battle against doping, leading to the formation of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in 1999. The 2000 Summer Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics have shown that the effort to eliminate performance-enhancing drugs from the Olympics is not over, as several medalists in weightlifting and cross-country skiing were disqualified due to failing a drug test. During the 2006 Winter Olympics, only one athlete failed a drug test and had a medal revoked. The IOC-established drug testing regimen (now known as the "Olympic Standard") has set the worldwide benchmark that other sporting federations attempt to emulate.[21] During the Beijing games, 3,667 athletes were tested by the IOC under the auspices of the World Anti-Doping Agency. Both urine and blood testing was used in a coordinated effort to detect banned substances and recent blood transfusions. While several athletes were barred from competition by their National Olympic Committees prior to the Games, six athletes failed drug tests while in competition in Beijing.[22][23]
Prohibited drugs edit
Summer Olympic Games edit
What follows is a list of all the athletes that have tested positive for a banned substance either during or after an Olympic Games in which they competed. Any medals listed were revoked by the International Olympic Commission (IOC). In 1967 the IOC banned the use of performance-enhancing drugs, instituted a Medical Commission, and created a list of banned substances.[24] Mandatory testing began at the following year's Games.[24] In a few cases the IOC has reversed earlier rulings that stripped athletes of medals.
1968 Mexico City edit
| Name | Country | Sport | Banned substance | Medals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall | Sweden | Modern pentathlon | Ethanol | (team) |
In addition, the Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler Hristo Traykov was disqualified from his bout against Dave Hazewinkel for using concealed smelling salts during their bout.[25]
1972 Munich edit
As a 16-year-old, Rick DeMont qualified to represent the United States at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. He originally won the gold medal in the men's 400-meter freestyle, but following the race, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) disqualified DeMont [26] after his post-race urinalysis tested positive for traces of the banned substance ephedrine contained in his prescription asthma medication, Marax. The positive test following the 400-meter freestyle final also deprived him of a chance at multiple medals, as he was barred from any other events at the Olympics, including the 1,500-meter freestyle for which he was the then-current world record-holder.
Before the Olympics, DeMont had properly declared his asthma medications on his medical disclosure forms, but the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) had not cleared them with the IOC's medical committee.[27] In 2001, his gold medal performance in the 1972 Summer Olympics was recognised by the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).[28] However, only the IOC has the power to restore his medal, and it has, as of 2019, refused to do so.[28]
| Name | Country | Sport | Anti-doping rule violation | Medals | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bakaava Buidaa | Mongolia | Judo | Dianabol | (63 kg) | [29] |
| Miguel Coll | Puerto Rico | Basketball | Amphetamine | [29][30] | |
| Rick DeMont | United States | Swimming | Ephedrine | (men's 400 m freestyle) | [29] |
| Aad van den Hoek | Netherlands | Cycling | Coramine | (100 km team race) | [29] |
| Jaime Huélamo | Spain | Cycling | Coramine | (individual road race) | [29] |
| Walter Legel | Austria | Weightlifting | Amphetamine | [29] | |
| Mohammad Reza Nasehi | Iran | Weightlifting | Ephedrine | [29] |
1976 Montreal edit
Leibel was disqualified from the race that took place on the day that he provided the positive sample but was allowed to continue in the event.[32]
1980 Moscow edit
Though no athletes were caught doping at the 1980 Summer Olympics, it has been revealed that athletes had begun using testosterone and other drugs for which tests had not been yet developed. According to British journalist Andrew Jennings, a KGB colonel stated that the agency's officers had posed as anti-doping authorities from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to undermine doping tests and that Soviet athletes were "rescued with [these] tremendous efforts".[14] A 1989 report by a committee of the Australian Senate claimed that "there is hardly a medal winner at the Moscow Games, certainly not a gold medal winner ... who is not on one sort of drug or another: usually several kinds. The Moscow Games might well have been called the Chemists' Games".[33][34]
A member of the IOC Medical Commission, Manfred Donike, privately ran additional tests with a new technique for identifying abnormal levels of testosterone by measuring its ratio to epitestosterone in urine. Twenty percent of the specimens he tested, including those from sixteen gold medalists would have resulted in disciplinary proceedings had the tests been official.[33] The results of Donike's unofficial tests later convinced the IOC to add his new technique to their testing protocols.[35] The first documented case of "blood doping" occurred at the 1980 Summer Olympics as a runner was transfused with two pints of blood before winning medals in the 5000 m and 10,000 m.[36]
1984 Los Angeles edit
The organizers of the Los Angeles games had refused to provide the IOC doping authorities with a safe prior to the start of the games. Due to a lack of security, medical records were subsequently stolen.[33] A 1994 letter from IOC Medical Commission chair Alexandre de Mérode claimed that Tony Daly, a member of the Los Angeles organizing committee had destroyed the records.[33] Dick Pound later wrote of his frustration that the organizing committee had removed evidence before it could be acted on by the IOC. Pound also claimed that IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch and Primo Nebiolo, President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) had conspired to delay the announcement of positive tests so that the games could pass without controversy.[33]
The American cyclist Pat McDonough later admitted to "blood doping" at the 1984 Los Angeles Games.[37] Following the games it was revealed that one-third of the U.S. cycling team had received blood transfusions before the games, where they won nine medals, their first medal success since the 1912 Summer Olympics.[37] "Blood doping" was banned by the IOC in 1985 (at the time of the Olympics it was not banned), though no test existed for it at the time.[37]
1988 Seoul edit
| Name | Country | Sport | Banned substance | Medals | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Dad | Afghanistan | Wrestling | Furosemide | ||
| Kerrith Brown | Great Britain | Judo | Furosemide | (71 kg) | [38] |
| Kalman Csengeri | Hungary | Weightlifting | Stanozolol | ||
| Mitko Grablev | Bulgaria | Weightlifting | Furosemide | (56 kg) | |
| Angell Guenchev | Bulgaria | Weightlifting | Furosemide | (67.5 kg) | |
| Ben Johnson | Canada | Athletics | Stanozolol | (men's 100 m) | [31] |
| Fernando Mariaca | Spain | Weightlifting | Pemoline | ||
| Jorge Quesada | Spain | Modern pentathlon | Propanolol | ||
| Andor Szanyi | Hungary | Weightlifting | Stanozolol | (100 kg) | |
| Alexander Watson | Australia | Modern Pentathlon | Caffeine |
1992 Barcelona edit
| Name | Country | Sport | Banned substance | Medals | Details | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madina Biktagirova | Unified Team | Athletics | Norephedrine | [31] | ||
| Wu Dan | China | Volleyball | Strychnine | |||
| Bonnie Dasse | United States | Athletics | Clenbuterol | [31] | ||
| Andrew Davies | Great Britain | Weightlifting | Clenbuterol | Withdrawn prior to competition | [39][40][41] | |
| Jason Livingston | Great Britain | Athletics | Anabolic steroid | Withdrawn prior to competition | [42][41] | |
| Jud Logan | United States | Athletics | Clenbuterol | [31] | ||
| Nijolė Medvedeva | Lithuania | Athletics | Mesocarb | [31] | ||
| Andrew Saxton | Great Britain | Weightlifting | Clenbuterol | Withdrawn prior to competition | [39][40][41] |
1996 Atlanta edit
| Name | Country | Sport | Banned substance | Medals | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antonella Bevilacqua | Italy | Athletics | Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine | [31][43] | |
| Dean Capobianco | Australia | Athletics | Stanozolol | [31][43] | |
| Sandra Farmer-Patrick | United States | Athletics | Testosterone | [31][44] | |
| Daniel Plaza | Spain | Athletics | Nandrolone | [31][45][46] | |
| Iva Prandzheva | Bulgaria | Athletics | Metadienone | [31][47] | |
| Mary Slaney | United States | Athletics | Testosterone | [31][48] | |
| Natalya Shekhodanova | Russia | Athletics | Stanozolol | [31][47][49] |
Five athletes tested positive for the stimulant bromantan and were disqualified by the IOC, but later reinstated after an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport: swimmers Andrey Korneyev and Nina Zhivanevskaya, Greco-Roman wrestler Zafar Guliev and sprinter Marina Trandenkova, all from Russia, and the Lithuanian track cyclist Rita Razmaitė. Dr. Vitaly Slionssarenko, physician to the Lithuanian cycling team and team coach Boris Vasilyev were expelled from the games by the IOC for their role in the scandal.[50][51][52][47] The athletes and officials were reprimanded.[53][54][55][56][57]
The Irish long-distance runner Marie McMahon (Davenport) got a reprimand after testing positive for the stimulant phenylpropanolamine,[47][58][59] and Cuban judoka Estella Rodriguez Villanueva got a reprimand after she tested positive for the diuretic furosemide.[47]
2000 Sydney edit
2004 Athens edit
2008 Beijing edit
"Zero Tolerance for Doping" was adopted as an official slogan for the Beijing Olympic Games.[73] A number of athletes were already eliminated by testing prior to coming to Beijing.[73]
Out of the 4,500 samples that were collected from participating athletes at the games, six athletes with positive specimens were ousted from the competition. Further positive tests were found in 2016, as samples had been sealed and stored for eight years. The quality of the original testing was questioned when the BBC reported that samples positive for EPO were labeled as negative by Chinese laboratories in July 2008.[74] The initial rate of positive findings was lower than at Athens in 2004, but the prevalence of doping had not necessarily decreased; the technology for creating and concealing drugs had become more sophisticated, and a number of drugs could not be detected.[73][74][75]
In August 2015, the Turkish Athletics Federation confirmed that an in-competition test of Elvan Abeylegesse at the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Athletics had been retested and found to be positive for a controlled substance, and that she had been temporarily suspended.[76] On 29 March 2017, the IAAF confirmed the positive test, announced retroactive disqualifications and voided all of her results from 25 August 2007 until 25 August 2009, including the 2008 Summer Olympics.[77] As a result, she was stripped of two silver medals she had won in the women's 5,000 and 10,000 meter races.
In May 2016, following the Russian doping scandal, the IOC announced that 32 targeted retests had come back positive for performance-enhancing drugs, of which Russian News Agency TASS announced that 14 were from Russian athletes, 11 of them track and field athletes, including 2012 Olympic champion high jumper Anna Chicherova. Authorities have sent the B-samples for confirmation testing. Those confirmed as having taken doping agents stand to lose records and medals from the 2008 games to 2016 under IOC and WADA rules.[78]
On 18 June 2016, the IWF reported that as a consequence of the IOC's reanalyses of samples from the 2008 Olympic Games, the samples of the following seven weightlifters had returned positive results: Hripsime Khurshudyan (Armenia), Intigam Zairov (Azerbaijan), Alexandru Dudoglo (Moldova), gold medalist Ilya Ilyin (Kazakhstan), bronze medalist Nadezda Evstyukhina and silver medalist Marina Shainova (both from Russia), and Nurcan Taylan (Turkey). In line with the relevant rules and regulations, the IWF imposed mandatory provisional suspensions upon the athletes. Zairov and Ilyin had been serving previous suspensions.[79] In November 2016, Ilyin was stripped of the gold medal.[80]
On 22 July 2016, Sibel Özkan (TUR) was disqualified due to an anti-doping rule violation and stripped of her silver medal.[81] Medals have not been reallocated as yet.
On 28 July 2016, it was announced that retests of samples from the 2008 Summer Olympics detected a positive sample for performance-enhancing drugs from Aksana Miankova of Belarus, who won a gold medal in the women's hammer throw.[82][83] There have been no decisions about stripping and reallocation of medals as yet.
On 16 August 2016, the Russian women's 4 × 100 metres relay team was disqualified for doping. Russian teammates were stripped of their gold Olympic medals, as Yuliya Chermoshanskaya had her samples reanalyzed and tested positive for two prohibited substances.[84] The IAAF was requested to modify the results accordingly and to consider any further action within its own competence.[85]
On 19 August 2016, the Russian women's 4 × 400 metres relay team was disqualified for doping.[86] Russian teammates were stripped of their silver Olympic medals, as Anastasiya Kapachinskaya had her samples reanalyzed and tested positive for the same two prohibited substances as Chermoshanskaya.[87]
On 24 August 2016, the IWF reported that as a consequence of the IOC's reanalyses of samples from the 2008 Olympic Games, the samples of the following athletes had returned positive results: Nizami Pashayev (Azerbaijan), Iryna Kulesha, Nastassia Novikava, Andrei Rybakou (all from Belarus), Cao Lei, Chen Xiexia, Liu Chunhong (all from China), Mariya Grabovetskaya, Maya Maneza, Irina Nekrassova, Vladimir Sedov (all from Kazakhstan), Khadzhimurat Akkaev, Dmitry Lapikov (both from Russia), and Natalya Davydova and Olha Korobka (both from Ukraine). In line with the relevant rules and regulations, the IWF imposed mandatory provisional suspensions upon the athletes, who remain provisionally suspended in view of potential anti-doping rule violations until their cases are closed.[88]
On 29 August 2016, some non-official reports indicated that Artur Taymazov of Uzbekistan had been stripped of the 2008 Olympic gold medal in the freestyle wrestling 120 kg event due to a positive test for doping.[89]
On 31 August 2016, the IOC disqualified six sportspeople for failing doping tests at the 2008 Games. They included three Russian medalists: weightlifters Nadezhda Evstyukhina (bronze medal in the women's 75 kg event), Marina Shainova (silver medal in the women's 58 kg event), and Tatyana Firova, who finished second with teammates in the 4 × 400 m relay. Bronze medal weightlifter Tigran Martirosyan of Armenia (men's 69 kg event) and fellow weightlifters Alexandru Dudoglo (9th place) of Moldova and Intigam Zairov (9th place) of Azerbaijan were also disqualified.[90]
On 1 September 2016, the IOC disqualified a further two athletes. Cuban discus thrower Yarelys Barrios, who won a silver medal in the women's discus, was disqualified after testing positive for Acetazolamide and ordered to return her medal. Qatari sprinter Samuel Francis, who finished 16th in the 100 meters, was also disqualified after testing positive for Stanozolol.[91]
On 13 September 2016, four more Russian athletes were disqualified for doping offenses. Two of those were medalists from the 2008 Summer Olympics: silver medalist Mariya Abakumova in the women's javelin throw and Denis Alekseyev, who was part of the bronze medal team in the men's 4 × 400 m relay. Inga Abitova, who finished 6th in the 10,000 meters, and cyclist Ekaterina Gnidenko also tested positive for a banned substance and were disqualified. [92]
On 23 September 2016, some non-official reports indicate wrestler Vasyl Fedoryshyn of Ukraine has been stripped of the 2008 Olympic silver medal in the freestyle 60 kg event due to a positive test for doping.[93]
On 6 October 2016, the IOC disqualified Anna Chicherova of the Russian Federation for testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. She won a bronze medal in the women's high jump. Russia would likely keep the bronze medal, as the fourth-place athlete in the competition was also from Russia.[94] Through 6 October 2016, the IOC has reported Adverse Analytical Findings for 25 weightlifters from its 2016 retests of samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, all but three of whom tested positive for anabolic agents (three Chinese weightlifters were positive for growth hormones).[95]
On 26 October 2016, the IOC disqualified nine more athletes for failing drugs tests at the 2008 Games. Among them were six medal winners: weightlifters Andrei Rybakou and Nastassia Novikava, both from Belarus, and Olha Korobka of Ukraine; women's steeplechase bronze medalist Ekaterina Volkova of Russia; and freestyle wrestlers Soslan Tigiev of Uzbekistan and Taimuraz Tigiyev of Kazakhstan. The others were men's 62 kg weightlifter Sardar Hasanov of Azerbaijan, long jumper Wilfredo Martinez of Cuba, and 100m-hurdler Josephine Nnkiruka Onyia of Spain.[96]
On 17 November 2016, the IOC disqualified 16 more athletes for failing drugs tests at the 2008 games. Among them were 10 medal winners: weightlifters Khadzhimurat Akkaev and Dmitry Lapikov and wrestler Khasan Baroev from the Russian Federation, weightlifters Mariya Grabovetskaya, Irina Nekrassova and wrestler Asset Mambetov from Kazakhstan, weightlifter Nataliya Davydova and pole vaulter Denys Yurchenko from Ukraine, long/triple jumper Hrysopiyí Devetzí of Greece and wrestler Vitaliy Rahimov of Azerbaijan. The others were women's 75 kg weightlifter Iryna Kulesha of Belarus, women's +63 kg weightlifter Maya Maneza of Kazakhstan, women's high jumper Vita Palamar of Ukraine, men's 94 kg weightlifter Nizami Pashayev of Azerbaijan, men's 85 kg weightlifter Vladimir Sedov of Kazakhstan, and women's high jumper Elena Slesarenko of the Russian Federation.[97]
On 25 November 2016, the IOC disqualified 5 more athletes for failing drugs tests at the 2008 games. Among them were 3 medal winners: gold-medalists 94 kg weightlifter Ilya Ilin of Kazakhstan and hammer thrower Aksana Miankova of Belarus and silver-medalist shot putter Natallia Mikhnevich of Belarus. The others were shot putter Pavel Lyzhyn and 800m runner Sviatlana Usovich, both of Belarus.[98]
On 12 January 2017, the IOC disqualified five more athletes for failing drug tests at the 2008 Games. These included three Chinese women's weightlifting gold medalists: Lei Cao (75 kg), Xiexia Chen (48 kg) and Chunhong Liu (69 kg). Two women athletes from Belarus were disqualified: bronze medalist shot putter Nadzeya Ostapchuk and hammer thrower Darya Pchelnik, who did not medal.[99]
On 25 January 2017, the IOC stripped Jamaica of the athletics gold medal in the men's 4 × 100 m relay due to Nesta Carter testing positive for the prohibited substance methylhexaneamine.[100][101][102] The IOC also stripped Russian jumper Tatyana Lebedeva of two silver medals in women's triple jump and long jump due to use of turinabol.[100]
On 1 March 2017, the IOC disqualified Victoria Tereshchuk of Ukraine due to use of turinabol and stripped her of the bronze medal in modern pentathlon.[103]
By April 2017, the 2008 Summer Olympics has had the most (50) Olympic medals stripped for doping violations. Russia is the leading country with 14 medals stripped.
Disqualified edit
Did not start edit
Athletes who were selected for the Games, but provisionally suspended before competing.
| Name | Country | Sport | Banned substance | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marta Bastianelli | Italy | Cycling | Fenfluramine | Testing at the U-23 world championships[120] |
| Fani Halkia | Greece | Athletics | Methyltrienolone | Pre-Games testing in Japan[121][122][123] |
| Maria Isabel Moreno | Spain | Cycling | Erythropoietin | Pre-Games testing in Olympic village, Beijing[124] |
| Tatyana Tomashova | Russia | Athletics | IAAF out-of-competition tests in May and August 2007 [125] | |
| Yelena Soboleva | Russia | Athletics | IAAF out-of-competition tests in May and August 2007 [125] | |
| Svetlana Cherkasova | Russia | Athletics | IAAF out-of-competition tests in May and August 2007 [125] | |
| Yuliya Fomenko | Russia | Athletics | IAAF out-of-competition tests in May and August 2007 [125] | |
| Darya Pishchalnikova | Russia | Athletics | IAAF out-of-competition tests in May and August 2007 [125] | |
| Gulfiya Khanafeyeva | Russia | Athletics | IAAF out-of-competition tests in May and August 2007 [125] | |
| Olga Yegorova | Russia | Athletics | IAAF out-of-competition tests in May and August 2007 [125] |
2012 London edit
It was announced prior to the Summer games that half of all competitors would be tested for drugs, with 150 scientists set to take 6,000 samples between the start of the games and the end of the Paralympic games at GlaxoSmithKline's New Frontiers Science Park site in Harlow, Essex.[126] All medalists would also be tested. The Olympic anti-doping laboratory would test up to 400 samples every day for more than 240 prohibited substances.[126]
The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), John Fahey, announced on 24 July that 107 athletes had been sanctioned for doping offences in the six months to 19 June.[127] The "In-competition" period began on 16 July. During the "In-competition" period Olympic competitors can be tested at any time without notice or in advance.[128]
British sprinter Dwain Chambers, cyclist David Millar and shot putter Carl Myerscough[129] competed in London after the British Olympic Association's policy of punishing drug cheats with lifetime bans was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.[126]
Russian Darya Pishchalnikova participated in the 2012 Olympics and was awarded a silver medal. However, she tested positive for the anabolic steroid oxandrolone in the samples taken in May 2012. In December 2012, she sent an email to WADA containing details on an alleged state-run doping program in Russia. According to The New York Times, the email reached three top WADA officials but the agency decided not to open an inquiry and instead sent her email to Russian sports officials.[130] In April 2013 Pishchalnikova was banned by the Russian Athletics Federation for ten years, and her results from May 2012 were annulled, meaning she was set on track to lose her Olympic medal.[131] Her ban by the Russian Athletics Federation was likely in retaliation.
Gold medalists at the games who had been involved in previous doping offences included Alexander Vinokourov, the winner of the men's road race,[132] Tatyana Lysenko, the winner of the women's hammer throw, Aslı Çakır Alptekin winner of the women's 1500 meters and Sandra Perković, winner of the women's discus throw.[133][134] Other competitors at the Summer games involved in previous doping cases included American athletes Justin Gatlin and LaShawn Merritt,[135] and Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake.[136]
Spanish athlete Ángel Mullera was first selected for the 3000 m steeplechase and later removed when emails were published in which he discussed EPO use with a trainer.[137] Mullera appealed to CAS which ordered the Spanish Olympic Committee to allow him to participate.[138]
Prior to the Olympic competition, several prominent track and field athletes were ruled out of the competition due to failed tests. World indoor medallists Dimitrios Chondrokoukis, Debbie Dunn, and Mariem Alaoui Selsouli were withdrawn from their Olympic teams in July for doping, as was 2004 Olympic medallist Zoltán Kővágó.[139][140][141] At the Olympic competition, Tameka Williams admitted to taking a banned stimulant and was removed from the games.[142] Ivan Tsikhan did not compete in the hammer throw as a retest of his sample from the 2004 Athens Olympics, where he won silver, was positive.[143] Amine Laâlou,[144] Marina Marghieva,[145] Diego Palomeque,[146] and defending 50 km walk champion Alex Schwazer were also suspended before taking part in their events.[147]
Syrian hurdler Ghfran Almouhamad became the first track-and-field athlete to be suspended following a positive in-competition doping sample.[148] Nadzeya Astapchuk was stripped of the women's shot put title after her sample came back positive for the banned anabolic agent metenolone.[149] Karin Melis Mey was withdrawn before the long jump final when an earlier failed doping test was confirmed.[150]
A WADA report released in 2015 detailed an extensive Russian state-sponsored doping program implicating athletes, coaches, various Russian institutions, doctors and labs. The report stated that the London Olympic Games "were, in a sense, sabotaged by the admission of athletes who should have not been competing" and detailed incidents of bribery and bogus urine samples. The report recommended that Russia be barred from track and field events for the 2016 Olympics. It also recommended lifetime bans for five coaches and five athletes from the country, including runners Mariya Savinova, Ekaterina Poistogova, Anastasiya Bazdyreva, Kristina Ugarova, and Tatjana Myazina.[151][152]
On 15 June 2016, it was announced that four London 2012 Olympic weightlifting champions had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. They include Kazakhstan's Ilya Ilyin (94 kg), Zulfiya Chinshanlo (53 kg), Maiya Maneza (63 kg) and Svetlana Podobedova (75 kg). If confirmed, Kazakhstan would drop from 12th to 23rd in the 2012 medal standings. Six other lifters who competed at the 2012 Games also tested positive after hundreds of samples were reanalysed. Among them are Russia's Apti Aukhadov (silver at 85 kg), Ukraine's Yuliya Kalina (bronze at 58 kg), Belarusian Maryna Shkermankova (bronze at 69 kg), Azerbaijan's Boyanka Kostova and Belarus duo Dzina Sazanavets and Yauheni Zharnasek.[153] On 27 July 2016, IWF has reported in the second wave of re-sampling that three silver medalists from Russia, namely Natalya Zabolotnaya (at 75 kg), Aleksandr Ivanov (at 94 kg) and Svetlana Tsarukaeva (at 63 kg), together with bronze medalists Armenian Hripsime Khurshudyan (at 75+ kg), Belarusian Iryna Kulesha (at 75 kg) and Moldovan Cristina Iovu (at 53 kg) have tested positive for steroid dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.[154] Aukhadov was stripped of his silver medal by the IOC on 18 October 2016.[155] On 27 October 2016 Maiya Maneza was stripped of her gold medal.[156] In November 2016, Ilyin was stripped of the London gold medal.[80]
On 13 July 2016, the IOC announced that Yuliya Kalina of Ukraine had been disqualified from the 2012 Summer Olympics and ordered to return the bronze medal from the 58 kg weightlifting event. Reanalysis of Kalina's samples from London 2012 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol).[157] The positions were adjusted accordingly.[158]
On 9 August 2016, the IOC announced that Oleksandr Pyatnytsya of Ukraine would be stripped of his silver medal in the javelin throw after he tested positive for the prohibited substance dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol).[159] Redistribution of medals has not yet been announced, but the likely case is the silver and bronze medals will be given to Finland and Czech Republic instead.[160]
On 20 August 2016, the IOC announced that Yevgeniya Kolodko of Russia would be stripped of her silver medal in shot put after she tested positive of dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol) and ipamorelin.[161] Medals are not reallocated yet.
On 29 August 2016, a report indicated that a retested sample for Besik Kudukhov of Russia, the silver medalist in the men's 60 kg freestyle wrestling event, had returned a positive result (later disclosed as dehydrochlormethyltestosterone).[89] Kudakhov died in a car crash in December 2013. On 27 October 2016, the IOC dropped all disciplinary proceedings against Kudukhov, stating that such proceedings cannot be conducted against a deceased person. As a result, it said, Olympic results that would have been reviewed will remain uncorrected, which is the unavoidable consequence of the fact that the proceedings cannot move forward.[162]
On 13 September 2016, the IWF reported that the men's 94 kg weightlifting bronze medalist, Moldova's Anatolie Cîrîcu, had tested positive for the dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.[163]
On 6 October 2016, the IWF reported that as a consequence of the IOC's reanalyses of samples from the 2012 Olympic Games, a sample of Norayr Vardanyan, who represented Armenia, had returned a positive result. In line with the relevant rules and regulations, the IWF imposed mandatory provisional suspensions upon Vardanyan, who remains provisionally suspended until his case is closed.[164] On 12 January 2017, the IOC disqualified Vardanyan. Through 6 October 2016, the IOC had reported Adverse Analytical Findings for 23 weightlifters from its 2016 retests of samples from the 2012 London Olympic Games, all of whom tested positive for anabolic agents.[95]
On 11 October 2016, Tatyana Lysenko of the Russian Federation was disqualified from the women's hammer throw, in which she won the gold medal. She had tested positive for a banned substance. The IOC requested the IAAF to modify the results of this event accordingly. The silver medalist Anita Włodarczyk of Poland would likely take the gold medal in her place.[165]
On 18 October 2016, the IOC disqualified Apti Aukhadov of the Russian Federation for doping and stripped him of the silver medal.[166] The IOC requested the IWF to modify the results of this event accordingly; it has not yet published modified results.[158]
On 18 October 2016, the IOC reported that Maksym Mazuryk of Ukraine, who competed in the Men's Pole Vault event, was disqualified from the 2012 London Games, in which he ranked 18th. Re-analysis of Mazuryk's samples resulted in a positive test for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.
On 27 October 2016 the IOC disqualified a further eight athletes for failing doping tests at the games. This included four medal winners in weightlifting: Zulfiya Chinshanlo, Maiya Maneza and Svetlana Podobedova, all from Kazakhstan, and Maryna Shkermankova of Belarus. The others were hammer thrower Kirill Ikonnikov of Russia, women's 69 kg weightlifter Dzina Sazanavets of Belarus, pole vaulter Dmitry Starodubtsev of Russia, and men's +105 kg weightlifter Yauheni Zharnasek of Belarus.[156]
On 21 November 2016 the IOC disqualified a further 12 athletes for failing doping tests at the games. This included 6 medal winners in weightlifting, including Alexandr Ivanov (Russia), Anatoli Ciricu (Moldova), Cristina Iovu (Moldova), Natalya Zabolotnaya (Russia), Iryna Kulesha (Belarus), and Hripsime Khurshudyan (Armenia).[167] Moldova has lost all its 2012 London medals. The others were hammer thrower Oleksandr Drygol and long jumper Margaryta Tverdokhlib, both of Ukraine, 85 kg weightlifter Rauli Tsirekidze of Georgia, 94 kg weightlifter Almas Uteshov of Kazakhstan, 94 kg weightlifter Andrey Demanov of Russia and 3000m steeplechaser Yuliya Zaripova of Russia, who had previously been sanctioned in March 2016 by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
On 25 November 2016, the IOC disqualified 4 more athletes for failing drug tests at the 2012 games. They were gold medalist 94 kg weightlifter Ilya Ilin of Kazakhstan, hammer thrower Aksana Miankova and long jumper Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova, both of Belarus, and 58 kg weightlifter Boyanka Kostova of Azerbaijan.[98]
On 29 November 2016 the Court of Arbitration for Sport issued a decision that all results achieved by 2012 Olympic heptathlon bronze medalist Tatyana Chernova of Russia between 15 August 2011 and 22 July 2013 are annulled. It also annulled all of Yekaterina Sharmina's results between 17 June 2011 and 5 August 2015, including her 33rd-place finish in the 2012 women's 1500m.[168] CAS ruled that they "have been found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation ... of the International Athletic Association Federation (IAAF) Competition Rules after analysis of their Athlete Biological Passports (ABP) showed evidence of blood doping."[169]
On 12 January 2017, the IOC disqualified three weightlifters for failing drug tests at the 2012 games. Two competed in men's 94 kg weightlifting: Intigam Zairov of Azerbaijan and Norayr Vardanyan of Armenia. Women's 63 kg weightlifter Sibel Simsek of Turkey was disqualified. None was a medalist at these games.[99]
On 1 February 2017, the IOC disqualified three athletes due to failed doping tests, all of whom tested positive for turinabol. Russian women's discus thrower Vera Ganeeva, who finished 23rd, Turkish boxer Adem Kilicci, who ranked 5th in men's 69–75 kg boxing, and Russian 400m runner Antonina Krivoshapka, who finished 6th, were disqualified. Krivoshapka also was part of the Russian silver medal-winning women's 4 × 400 m relay team, which was stripped of the silver medals.[170]
In December 2014, a documentary aired on German TV in which 800m gold medalist Mariya Savinova allegedly admitted to using banned substances on camera.[171] In November 2015, Savinova was one of five Russian runners the World Anti-Doping Agency recommended to receive a lifetime ban for doping during the London Olympics, along with 800m bronze medalist Ekaterina Poistogova. On 10 February 2017, the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a four-year ban that effectively stripped Savinova of her Olympic gold and other medals.[172] On 7 April 2017, CAS refused to decide on disqualification from 2012, and disqualify Ekaterina Poistogova from 2015.[173] Thus, Ekaterina Poistogova retained her Olympic 2012 medal at women's 800 metres athletic event.
As of December 2022, the 2012 Summer Olympics has seen a record 40 Olympic medals stripped for doping violations. Russia is the leading country with 17 medals stripped.
On 21 March 2022, the Athletics Integrity Unit of World Athletics issued a two-year ban for Russian racewalker Elena Lashmanova, starting from 9 March 2021, and also disqualified her results from 18 February 2012, to 3 January 2014, thus stripping her gold medal.
Disqualified edit
| Name | Country | Sport | Banned substance | Medals | Details of test |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hussain Al-Hamdah | Saudi Arabia | Athletics 5000 metres | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2013 w/results annulled from 26 March 2009 onwards.[31][174] | |
| Gamze Bulut | Turkey | Athletics 1500 metres | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed in 2017[175] | |
| Mariya Savinova | Russia | Athletics 800 metres | Biological passport abnormalities | CAS confirmed all results annulled from July 2010 to August 2013[176] | |
| Ghfran Almouhamad | Syria | Athletics 400 metres hurdles | Methylhexaneamine | IOC pre-competition testing at 2012 Summer Olympics[31][177] | |
| Elena Arzhakova | Russia | Athletics 800 metres | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2013 w/results annulled from 12 July 2011 onwards.[31][178][179] | |
| Sergey Bakulin | Russia | Athletics 50 km race walk | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF/CAS sanction imposed 2016 w/results annulled from 25 February 2011 to 24 December 2012.[180][181] | |
| Andrey Krivov | Russia | Athletics 20 km race walk | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF/CAS sanction imposed 2017 w/ results annulled from 20 May 2011 to 6 July 2013[182] | |
| Valeriy Borchin | Russia | Athletics 20 km race walk | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF/CAS sanction imposed 2016 w/results annulled from 14 August 2009 to 15 October 2012.[180][181] | |
| Abderrahime Bouramdane | Morocco | Athletics Marathon | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w/results annulled from 14 April 2011 onwards.[180][183] | |
| Yolanda Caballero | Colombia | Athletics Marathon | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2014 w/results annulled from 24 October 2011 onwards.[180][183] | |
| Aslı Çakır-Alptekin | Turkey | Athletics 1500 metres | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF/CAS sanction imposed 2015 w/results annulled from 29 July 2010 onwards.[184][185] | |
| Yekaterina Sharmina | Russia | Athletics 1500 metres | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF/CAS sanction imposed 2016 w/ results annulled from 17 June 2011 to 5 August 2015[186] | |
| Nicholas Delpopolo | United States | Judo 73 kg | Cannabis | IOC post-event testing at 2012 Summer Olympics.[187] | |
| Bahar Doğan | Turkey | Athletics Marathon | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w/results annulled from 3 June 2011 onwards.[180][183] | |
| Marta Domínguez | Spain | Athletics Steeplechase | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF/CAS sanction imposed 2015 w/results annulled from 5 August 2009 onwards.[180][188] | |
| Hamza Driouch | Qatar | Athletics 1500 metres | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w/results annulled from 2 August 2012 onwards.[31][189][190] | |
| Tyson Gay | United States | Athletics 100 metres 4 × 100 meters | Anabolic androgenic steroids | (4 × 100 meters) | USADA investigation after positive for anabolic androgenic steroids in 2013; admittance.[31][191][192][193] |
| Yelizaveta Grechishnikova | Russia | Athletics 10,000 metres | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2013 w/results annulled from 18 August 2009 onwards.[31][179][194] | |
| Semoy Hackett | Trinidad and Tobago | Athletics 100 metres 200 metres 4 × 100 metres relay | Methylhexaneamine | Positive from Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships in June 2012[31][195][196] | |
| Tetyana Hamera-Shmyrko | Ukraine | Athletics Marathon | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w/results annulled from 26 August 2011 onwards.[180][183] | |
| Hassan Hirt | France | Athletics 5000 metres | EPO | IOC pre-Games testing.[31][197] | |
| Vladimir Kanaikin | Russia | Athletics 20 km race walk | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF/CAS sanction imposed 2016 w/results annulled from 25 February 2011 to 17 December 2012.[180][181] | |
| Olga Kaniskina | Russia | Athletics 20 km race walk | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF/CAS sanction imposed 2016 w/results annulled from 15 August 2009 to 15 October 2012.[180][181] | |
| Natallia Kareiva | Belarus | Athletics 1500 metres | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2014 w/results annulled from 28 July 2010 onwards.[31][179][198][199] | |
| Ümmü Kiraz | Turkey | Athletics Marathon | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w/results annulled from 3 June 2011 onwards.[180][183] | |
| Sergey Kirdyapkin | Russia | Athletics 50 km race walk | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF/CAS sanction imposed 2016 w/results annulled from 20 August 2009 to 15 October 2012.[180][181] | |
| Blaža Klemenčič | Slovenia | Cycling MTB | EPO | UCI reanalysis of sample from 27 March 2012 in 2015. All results annulled from 27 March 2012 until 31 December 2012.[200] | |
| Yekaterina Kostetskaya | Russia | Athletics 1500 metres | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2014 w/results annulled from 30 August 2011 onwards.[31][201][202] | |
| Zalina Marghieva | Moldova | Athletics Hammer throw | 2009 WCh retest: Stanozolol, Oral Turinabol | IAAF retesting of samples from 2009 IAAF World Championships[31][203] | |
| Karin Melis Mey | Turkey | Athletics Long jump | Testosterone | Positive from the 2012 European Athletics Championships in June.[31][203] Provisionally suspended after the qualifying round at the Games. | |
| Andrei Mikhnevich | Belarus | Athletics Shot put | 2005 WCh retest: Clenbuterol, Methandienone and Oxandrolone | IAAF retest of sample from the 2005 IAAF World Championships. All results from August 2005 onwards annulled.[31][106] | |
| Anna Mishchenko | Ukraine | Athletics 1500 m | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w/results annulled from 28 June 2012 onwards.[180][183] | |
| Andriy Semenov | Ukraine | Athletics Shot put | Re-analysis of sample taken in 2011 | AIU sanction imposed 2019[204] | |
| Semiha Mutlu | Turkey | Athletics 20 km race walk | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w/results annulled from 20 August 2011 onwards.[180][183] | |
| Nadzeya Ostapchuk | Belarus | Athletics Shot put | Methenolone | IOC post-event testing at 2012 Summer Olympics (two separate positive samples).[31][205] | |
| Darya Pishchalnikova | Russia | Athletics Discus throw | Oxandrolone | Random out of competition test in May 2012. All her results (Including those at the 2012 Summer Olympics) since May 2012 were annulled by the IAAF in April 2013.[31][206] | |
| Hysen Pulaku | Albania | Weightlifting 77 kg | Stanozolol | IOC pre-competition testing at 2012 Summer Olympics.[207] | |
| Meliz Redif | Turkey | Athletics 4 x 400 metres | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w/results annulled from 26 June 2012 onwards.[180][183] | |
| Pınar Saka | Turkey | Athletics 400 metres 4 x 400 metres | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2014 w/results annulled from 18 June 2010 onwards.[31][179][208] | |
| Mohammed Shaween | Saudi Arabia | Athletics 1500 metres | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2014 w/results annulled from 12 June 2011 onwards.[31][201][202] | |
| Anzhelika Shevchenko | Ukraine | Athletics 1500 metres | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2013 w/results annulled from 2 July 2011 onwards.[31][179] | |
| Liliya Shobukhova | Russia | Athletics Marathon | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w/results annulled from 9 October 2009 onwards.[209][210] | |
| Svitlana Shmidt | Ukraine | Athletics Steeplechase | Biological passport abnormalities | IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w/results annulled from 8 March 2012 onwards.[31][211][212][213] | |
| Soslan Tigiev | Uzbekistan | Wrestling Freestyle 74 kg | Methylhexaneamine | doping, olympic, games, competitors, olympic, games, have, used, banned, athletic, performance, enhancing, drugs, contents, history, response, prohibited, drugs, summer, olympic, games, 1968, mexico, city, 1972, munich, 1976, montreal, 1980, moscow, 1984, ange. Competitors at the Olympic Games have used banned athletic performance enhancing drugs Contents 1 History 2 Response 3 Prohibited drugs 4 Summer Olympic Games 4 1 1968 Mexico City 4 2 1972 Munich 4 3 1976 Montreal 4 4 1980 Moscow 4 5 1984 Los Angeles 4 6 1988 Seoul 4 7 1992 Barcelona 4 8 1996 Atlanta 4 9 2000 Sydney 4 10 2004 Athens 4 11 2008 Beijing 4 11 1 Disqualified 4 11 2 Did not start 4 12 2012 London 4 12 1 Disqualified 4 12 2 Did not start 4 13 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4 13 1 Disqualified 4 13 2 Did not start 4 14 2020 Tokyo 4 14 1 Did not start 5 Winter Olympic Games 5 1 1968 Grenoble 5 2 1972 Sapporo 5 3 1976 Innsbruck 5 4 1980 Lake Placid 5 5 1984 Sarajevo 5 6 1988 Calgary 5 7 1992 Albertville 5 8 1994 Lillehammer 5 9 1998 Nagano 5 10 2002 Salt Lake City 5 11 2006 Turin 5 11 1 Did not start 5 11 2 Disqualified during the Games 5 11 3 Disqualified after the Games 5 12 2010 Vancouver 5 12 1 Did not start 5 12 2 Disqualified after the Games 5 13 2014 Sochi 5 14 2018 Pyeongchang 5 15 2022 Beijing 5 15 1 Controversy surrounding the ROC 5 15 2 Did not start 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksHistory editThe use of performance enhancing tactics or more formally known as PEDs and more broadly the use of any external device to nefariously influence the outcome of a sporting event has been a part of the Olympics since its inception in Ancient Greece One speculation as to why men were required to compete naked was to prevent the use of extra accoutrements and to keep women from competing in events specifically designed for men 1 Athletes were also known to drink magic potions and eat exotic meats in the hopes of giving them an athletic edge on their competition 2 If they were caught cheating their likenesses were often engraved into stone and placed in a pathway that led to the Olympic stadium 1 In the modern Olympic era chemically enhancing one s performance has evolved into a sophisticated science but in the early years of the Modern Olympic movement the use of performance enhancing drugs was almost as crude as its ancient predecessors For example the winner of the marathon at the 1904 Games Thomas Hicks was given strychnine and brandy by his coach even during the race 3 During the early 20th century many Olympic athletes discovered ways to improve their athletic abilities by boosting testosterone As their methods became more extreme it became increasingly evident that the use of performance enhancing drugs was not only a threat to the integrity of sport but could also have potentially fatal side effects on the athlete The only Olympic death linked to athletic drug use occurred at the Rome Games of 1960 During the cycling road race Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen fell from his bicycle and later died A coroner s inquiry found that he was under the influence of amphetamine which had caused him to lose consciousness during the race 4 Jensen s death exposed to the world how endemic drug use was among elite athletes 5 By the mid 1960s sports federations were starting to ban the use of performance enhancing drugs and the IOC followed suit in 1967 6 The first Olympic athlete to test positive for the use of performance enhancing drugs was Hans Gunnar Liljenwall a Swedish pentathlete at the 1968 Summer Olympics who lost his bronze medal for alcohol use 7 two beers to steady his nerves 8 Liljenwall was the only athlete to test positive for a banned substance at the 1968 Olympics as the technology and testing techniques improved the number of athletes discovered to be chemically enhancing their performance increased as well nbsp Kornelia EnderThe most systematic case of drug use for athletic achievement is that of the East German Olympic teams of the 1970s and 1980s In 1990 documents were discovered that showed many East German female athletes especially swimmers had been administered anabolic steroids and other drugs by their coaches and trainers Girls as young as eleven were started on the drug regimen without consent from their parents American female swimmers including Shirley Babashoff accused the East Germans of using performance enhancing drugs as early as the 1976 Summer Games 9 Babashoff s comments were dismissed by the international and domestic media as sour grapes since Babashoff a clear favorite to win multiple gold medals won three silver medals losing all three times to either of the two East Germans Kornelia Ender or Petra Thumer and one gold medal in a relay There was no suspicion of cheating on the part of the East German female swimmers even though their medal tally increased from four silvers and one bronze in 1972 to ten golds out of a possible 12 six silvers and one bronze in 1976 No clear evidence was discovered until after the fall of the Berlin Wall when the aforementioned documents proved that East Germany had embarked on a state sponsored drug regimen to dramatically improve their competitiveness at the Olympic Games and other international sporting events Many of the East German authorities responsible for this program have been subsequently tried and found guilty of various crimes in the German penal system 10 11 The report titled Doping in Germany from 1950 to today details how the West German government helped fund a wide scale doping program West Germany encouraged and covered up a culture of doping across many sports for decades 12 Doping of West German athletes was prevalent at the Munich Games of 1972 and at the 1976 Montreal Olympics 13 According to British journalist Andrew Jennings a KGB colonel stated that the agency s officers had posed as anti doping authorities from the International Olympic Committee to undermine doping tests and that Soviet athletes were rescued with these tremendous efforts 14 On the topic of the 1980 Summer Olympics a 1989 Australian study said There is hardly a medal winner at the Moscow Games certainly not a gold medal winner who is not on one sort of drug or another usually several kinds The Moscow Games might as well have been called the Chemists Games 14 15 Documents obtained in 2016 revealed the Soviet Union s plans for a statewide doping system in track and field in preparation for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Dated prior to the country s decision to boycott the Games the document detailed the existing steroids operations of the program along with suggestions for further enhancements 16 The communication directed to the Soviet Union s head of track and field was prepared by Dr Sergei Portugalov of the Institute for Physical Culture Portugalov was also one of the main figures involved in the implementation of the Russian doping program prior to the 2016 Summer Olympics 16 China conducted a state sanctioned doping programme on athletes in the 1980s and 1990s 17 In a July 2012 interview published by the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper Chen Zhangho the lead doctor for the Chinese Olympic team at the Los Angeles Seoul and Barcelona Olympics told of how he had tested hormones blood doping and steroids on about fifty elite athletes 18 Chen also accused the United States the Soviet Union and France of using performance enhancing drugs at the same time as China 18 A very publicized steroid related disqualification at an Olympic Games was the case of Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson who won the Men s 100 metres at the 1988 Seoul Olympics but tested positive for stanozolol His gold medal was subsequently stripped and awarded to runner up Carl Lewis who had tested positive for stimulants at the U S Olympic Trials The highest level of stimulant Lewis recorded was 6 ppm which was regarded as a positive test in 1988 but is now regarded as a negative test The acceptable level was later raised to ten parts per million for ephedrine and twenty five parts per million for other substances 19 20 According to the IOC rules at the time positive tests with levels lower than 10 ppm were cause of further investigation but not immediate ban Neal Benowitz a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco who is an expert on ephedrine and other stimulants agreed that These levels are what you d see from someone taking cold or allergy medicines and are unlikely to have any effect on performance 19 The IAAF acknowledged that at the 1988 Olympic Trials the USOC followed the correct procedures in dealing with positive findings for ephedrine and ephedrine related compounds in low concentration Response editIn the late 1990s the IOC took the initiative in a more organized battle against doping leading to the formation of the World Anti Doping Agency WADA in 1999 The 2000 Summer Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics have shown that the effort to eliminate performance enhancing drugs from the Olympics is not over as several medalists in weightlifting and cross country skiing were disqualified due to failing a drug test During the 2006 Winter Olympics only one athlete failed a drug test and had a medal revoked The IOC established drug testing regimen now known as the Olympic Standard has set the worldwide benchmark that other sporting federations attempt to emulate 21 During the Beijing games 3 667 athletes were tested by the IOC under the auspices of the World Anti Doping Agency Both urine and blood testing was used in a coordinated effort to detect banned substances and recent blood transfusions While several athletes were barred from competition by their National Olympic Committees prior to the Games six athletes failed drug tests while in competition in Beijing 22 23 Prohibited drugs editMain article List of drugs banned by the World Anti Doping AgencySummer Olympic Games editWhat follows is a list of all the athletes that have tested positive for a banned substance either during or after an Olympic Games in which they competed Any medals listed were revoked by the International Olympic Commission IOC In 1967 the IOC banned the use of performance enhancing drugs instituted a Medical Commission and created a list of banned substances 24 Mandatory testing began at the following year s Games 24 In a few cases the IOC has reversed earlier rulings that stripped athletes of medals 1968 Mexico City edit Main article 1968 Summer Olympics Name Country Sport Banned substance MedalsHans Gunnar Liljenwall nbsp Sweden Modern pentathlon Ethanol nbsp team In addition the Bulgarian Greco Roman wrestler Hristo Traykov was disqualified from his bout against Dave Hazewinkel for using concealed smelling salts during their bout 25 1972 Munich edit Main article 1972 Summer Olympics As a 16 year old Rick DeMont qualified to represent the United States at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich Germany He originally won the gold medal in the men s 400 meter freestyle but following the race the International Olympic Committee IOC disqualified DeMont 26 after his post race urinalysis tested positive for traces of the banned substance ephedrine contained in his prescription asthma medication Marax The positive test following the 400 meter freestyle final also deprived him of a chance at multiple medals as he was barred from any other events at the Olympics including the 1 500 meter freestyle for which he was the then current world record holder Before the Olympics DeMont had properly declared his asthma medications on his medical disclosure forms but the U S Olympic Committee USOC had not cleared them with the IOC s medical committee 27 In 2001 his gold medal performance in the 1972 Summer Olympics was recognised by the United States Olympic Committee USOC 28 However only the IOC has the power to restore his medal and it has as of 2019 refused to do so 28 Name Country Sport Anti doping rule violation Medals Ref Bakaava Buidaa nbsp Mongolia Judo Dianabol nbsp 63 kg 29 Miguel Coll nbsp Puerto Rico Basketball Amphetamine 29 30 Rick DeMont nbsp United States Swimming Ephedrine nbsp men s 400 m freestyle 29 Aad van den Hoek nbsp Netherlands Cycling Coramine nbsp 100 km team race 29 Jaime Huelamo nbsp Spain Cycling Coramine nbsp individual road race 29 Walter Legel nbsp Austria Weightlifting Amphetamine 29 Mohammad Reza Nasehi nbsp Iran Weightlifting Ephedrine 29 1976 Montreal edit Main article 1976 Summer Olympics Name Country Sport Anti doping rule violation Medals Ref Blagoi Blagoev nbsp Bulgaria Weightlifting Anabolic steroid nbsp 82 5 kg 29 Mark Cameron nbsp United States Weightlifting Anabolic steroid 29 Paul Cerutti nbsp Monaco Shooting Amphetamine 29 Dragomir Cioroslan nbsp Romania Weightlifting Fencamfamine 29 Phil Grippaldi nbsp United States Weightlifting Anabolic steroid 29 Zbigniew Kaczmarek nbsp Poland Weightlifting Anabolic steroid nbsp 67 5 kg 29 Valentin Khristov nbsp Bulgaria Weightlifting Anabolic steroid nbsp 110 kg 29 Lorne Leibel nbsp Canada Sailing Phenylpropanolamine 29 Arne Norrback nbsp Sweden Weightlifting Anabolic steroid 29 Petr Pavlasek nbsp Czechoslovakia Weightlifting Anabolic steroid 29 Danuta Rosani nbsp Poland Athletics Anabolic steroid 29 31 Leibel was disqualified from the race that took place on the day that he provided the positive sample but was allowed to continue in the event 32 1980 Moscow edit Main articles 1980 Summer Olympics and Doping in Russia Background Soviet era Though no athletes were caught doping at the 1980 Summer Olympics it has been revealed that athletes had begun using testosterone and other drugs for which tests had not been yet developed According to British journalist Andrew Jennings a KGB colonel stated that the agency s officers had posed as anti doping authorities from the International Olympic Committee IOC to undermine doping tests and that Soviet athletes were rescued with these tremendous efforts 14 A 1989 report by a committee of the Australian Senate claimed that there is hardly a medal winner at the Moscow Games certainly not a gold medal winner who is not on one sort of drug or another usually several kinds The Moscow Games might well have been called the Chemists Games 33 34 A member of the IOC Medical Commission Manfred Donike privately ran additional tests with a new technique for identifying abnormal levels of testosterone by measuring its ratio to epitestosterone in urine Twenty percent of the specimens he tested including those from sixteen gold medalists would have resulted in disciplinary proceedings had the tests been official 33 The results of Donike s unofficial tests later convinced the IOC to add his new technique to their testing protocols 35 The first documented case of blood doping occurred at the 1980 Summer Olympics as a runner was transfused with two pints of blood before winning medals in the 5000 m and 10 000 m 36 1984 Los Angeles edit Main article 1984 Summer Olympics Name Country Sport Banned substance Medals Ref Serafim Grammatikopoulos nbsp Greece Weightlifting NandroloneVesteinn Hafsteinsson nbsp Iceland Athletics Nandrolone 31 Tomas Johansson nbsp Sweden Wrestling Methenolone nbsp super heavy Stefan Laggner nbsp Austria Weightlifting NandroloneGoran Pettersson nbsp Sweden Weightlifting NandroloneEiji Shimomura nbsp Japan Volleyball TestosteroneMikiyasu Tanaka nbsp Japan Volleyball EphedrineAhmed Tarbi nbsp Algeria Weightlifting NandroloneMahmoud Tarha nbsp Lebanon Weightlifting NandroloneGiampaolo Urlando nbsp Italy Athletics Testosterone 31 Martti Vainio nbsp Finland Athletics Methenolone nbsp 10 000 m 31 Anna Verouli nbsp Greece Athletics Nandrolone 31 The organizers of the Los Angeles games had refused to provide the IOC doping authorities with a safe prior to the start of the games Due to a lack of security medical records were subsequently stolen 33 A 1994 letter from IOC Medical Commission chair Alexandre de Merode claimed that Tony Daly a member of the Los Angeles organizing committee had destroyed the records 33 Dick Pound later wrote of his frustration that the organizing committee had removed evidence before it could be acted on by the IOC Pound also claimed that IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch and Primo Nebiolo President of the International Association of Athletics Federations IAAF had conspired to delay the announcement of positive tests so that the games could pass without controversy 33 The American cyclist Pat McDonough later admitted to blood doping at the 1984 Los Angeles Games 37 Following the games it was revealed that one third of the U S cycling team had received blood transfusions before the games where they won nine medals their first medal success since the 1912 Summer Olympics 37 Blood doping was banned by the IOC in 1985 at the time of the Olympics it was not banned though no test existed for it at the time 37 1988 Seoul edit Main article 1988 Summer Olympics Name Country Sport Banned substance Medals Ref Ali Dad Afghanistan Wrestling FurosemideKerrith Brown nbsp Great Britain Judo Furosemide nbsp 71 kg 38 Kalman Csengeri nbsp Hungary Weightlifting StanozololMitko Grablev nbsp Bulgaria Weightlifting Furosemide nbsp 56 kg Angell Guenchev nbsp Bulgaria Weightlifting Furosemide nbsp 67 5 kg Ben Johnson nbsp Canada Athletics Stanozolol nbsp men s 100 m 31 Fernando Mariaca nbsp Spain Weightlifting PemolineJorge Quesada nbsp Spain Modern pentathlon PropanololAndor Szanyi nbsp Hungary Weightlifting Stanozolol nbsp 100 kg Alexander Watson nbsp Australia Modern Pentathlon Caffeine1992 Barcelona edit Main article 1992 Summer Olympics Name Country Sport Banned substance Medals Details Ref Madina Biktagirova nbsp Unified Team Athletics Norephedrine 31 Wu Dan nbsp China Volleyball StrychnineBonnie Dasse nbsp United States Athletics Clenbuterol 31 Andrew Davies nbsp Great Britain Weightlifting Clenbuterol Withdrawn prior to competition 39 40 41 Jason Livingston nbsp Great Britain Athletics Anabolic steroid Withdrawn prior to competition 42 41 Jud Logan nbsp United States Athletics Clenbuterol 31 Nijole Medvedeva nbsp Lithuania Athletics Mesocarb 31 Andrew Saxton nbsp Great Britain Weightlifting Clenbuterol Withdrawn prior to competition 39 40 41 1996 Atlanta edit Main article 1996 Summer Olympics Name Country Sport Banned substance Medals Ref Antonella Bevilacqua nbsp Italy Athletics Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine 31 43 Dean Capobianco nbsp Australia Athletics Stanozolol 31 43 Sandra Farmer Patrick nbsp United States Athletics Testosterone 31 44 Daniel Plaza nbsp Spain Athletics Nandrolone 31 45 46 Iva Prandzheva nbsp Bulgaria Athletics Metadienone 31 47 Mary Slaney nbsp United States Athletics Testosterone 31 48 Natalya Shekhodanova nbsp Russia Athletics Stanozolol 31 47 49 Five athletes tested positive for the stimulant bromantan and were disqualified by the IOC but later reinstated after an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport swimmers Andrey Korneyev and Nina Zhivanevskaya Greco Roman wrestler Zafar Guliev and sprinter Marina Trandenkova all from Russia and the Lithuanian track cyclist Rita Razmaite Dr Vitaly Slionssarenko physician to the Lithuanian cycling team and team coach Boris Vasilyev were expelled from the games by the IOC for their role in the scandal 50 51 52 47 The athletes and officials were reprimanded 53 54 55 56 57 The Irish long distance runner Marie McMahon Davenport got a reprimand after testing positive for the stimulant phenylpropanolamine 47 58 59 and Cuban judoka Estella Rodriguez Villanueva got a reprimand after she tested positive for the diuretic furosemide 47 2000 Sydney edit Main article 2000 Summer Olympics Name Country Sport Banned substance Medals Ref Fritz Aanes nbsp Norway Wrestling Norandrosterone and noretiochdandoneLance Armstrong nbsp United States Cycling Road race and Time trial Investigation by U S Anti Doping Agency concluded in 2012 Use Possession Trafficking Administration of Prohibited Substances and Methods and Assisting Encouraging Aiding Abetting Covering Up or any other type of complicity involving one or more anti doping rule violations and or attempted anti doping rule violations nbsp Time trial Ashot Danielyan nbsp Armenia Weightlifting Stanozolol nbsp 105 kg Izabela Dragneva nbsp Bulgaria Weightlifting Furosemide nbsp 48 kg Stian Grimseth nbsp Norway Weightlifting NandroloneIvan Ivanov nbsp Bulgaria Weightlifting Furosemide nbsp 56 kg Marion Jones nbsp United States Athletics THG nbsp women s 100 m nbsp women s 200 m nbsp women s 4x400 m relay nbsp women s long jump nbsp women s 4x100 m relay 31 Alexander Leipold nbsp Germany Wrestling Nandrolone nbsp 76 kg Sevdalin Minchev nbsp Bulgaria Weightlifting Furosemide nbsp 62 kg Antonio Pettigrew nbsp United States Athletics EPO and HGH nbsp men s 4 400 m relay 31 Svetlana Pospelova nbsp Russia Athletics Stanozolol 31 60 Oyuunbilegiin Purevbaatar nbsp Mongolia Wrestling FurosemideAndreea Răducan nbsp Romania Gymnastics Pseudophedrine 61 nbsp women s individual all round Andris Reinholds nbsp Latvia Rowing NandroloneJerome Young nbsp United States Athletics Nandrolone nbsp men s 4 400 m relay 31 2004 Athens edit Main article 2004 Summer Olympics Name Country Sport Anti doping rule violation Medals Ref Wafa Ammouri nbsp Morocco Weightlifting Anabolic steroid 62 Adrian Annus nbsp Hungary Athletics Falsified test result evasion of doping control nbsp men s hammer throw 31 62 Ludger Beerbaum nbsp Germany Equestrian Betamethasone to horse Goldfever nbsp team jumping Yuriy Bilonog nbsp Ukraine Athletics Oxandrolone positive after retest in 2012 nbsp men s shot put 31 63 64 Zhanna Block nbsp Ukraine Athletics BALCO investigation 31 Andrew Brack nbsp Greece Baseball Stanozolol pre Games test 65 Viktor Chislean nbsp Moldova Weightlifting Anabolic steroid 62 Crystal Cox nbsp United States Athletics Anabolic agents and hormones investigation completed 2010 nbsp women s 4 400 m relay 31 66 Robert Fazekas nbsp Hungary Athletics Refused to submit sample nbsp men s discus throw 31 62 67 Mabel Fonseca nbsp Puerto Rico Wrestling Stanozolol 62 Anton Galkin nbsp Russia Athletics Stanozolol 31 62 Ferenc Gyurkovics nbsp Hungary Weightlifting Oxandrolone nbsp 105 kg 62 Tyler Hamilton nbsp United States Cycling Use of prohibited substances and methods self admission nbsp men s road time trial 68 Marion Jones nbsp United States Athletics BALCO investigation 31 Zoltan Kecskes nbsp Hungary Weightlifting Anabolic steroid 62 Konstantinos Kenteris nbsp Greece Athletics Evasion of doping control 62 67 Albina Khomich nbsp Russia Weightlifting Testosterone 62 Aye Khine Nan nbsp Myanmar Weightlifting Anabolic steroid 62 Irina Korzhanenko nbsp Russia Athletics Stanozolol nbsp women s shot put 31 62 67 Zoltan Kovacs nbsp Hungary Weightlifting Refused to submit sample 62 Svetlana Krivelyova nbsp Russia Athletics Oxandrolone positive after retest in 2012 nbsp women s shot put 31 64 69 70 Pratima Kumari Na nbsp India Weightlifting Anabolic steroid 62 Aleksey Lesnichiy nbsp Belarus Athletics Clenbuterol 31 62 67 David Munyasia nbsp Kenya Boxing Cathine 62 Derek Nicholson nbsp Greece Baseball Diuretic pre Games test 65 Cian O Connor nbsp Ireland Equestrian Antipsychotics to horse Waterford Crystal nbsp individual jumping Olena Olefirenko nbsp Ukraine Rowing Ethamivan nbsp women s quadruple sculls 62 Oleg Perepetchenov nbsp Russia Weightlifting Clenbuterol positive after retest in 2012 nbsp 77 kg 71 72 Duane Ross nbsp United States Athletics BALCO investigation 31 Leonidas Sampanis nbsp Greece Weightlifting Testosterone nbsp 62 kg 62 Thinbaijam Sanamcha Chanu nbsp India Weightlifting Furosemide 62 Mital Sharipov nbsp Kyrgyzstan Weightlifting Furosemide 62 Olga Shchukina nbsp Uzbekistan Athletics Clenbuterol 31 62 67 Sule Sahbaz nbsp Turkey Weightlifting Anabolic steroid 62 Ekaterini Thanou nbsp Greece Athletics Evasion of doping control 62 67 Ivan Tsikhan nbsp Belarus Athletics Methandienone positive after retest in 2012 nbsp men s hammer throw 31 64 Irina Yatchenko nbsp Belarus Athletics Methandienone positive after retest in 2012 nbsp women s discus throw December 2012 31 64 2008 Beijing edit Main article 2008 Summer Olympics Zero Tolerance for Doping was adopted as an official slogan for the Beijing Olympic Games 73 A number of athletes were already eliminated by testing prior to coming to Beijing 73 Out of the 4 500 samples that were collected from participating athletes at the games six athletes with positive specimens were ousted from the competition Further positive tests were found in 2016 as samples had been sealed and stored for eight years The quality of the original testing was questioned when the BBC reported that samples positive for EPO were labeled as negative by Chinese laboratories in July 2008 74 The initial rate of positive findings was lower than at Athens in 2004 but the prevalence of doping had not necessarily decreased the technology for creating and concealing drugs had become more sophisticated and a number of drugs could not be detected 73 74 75 In August 2015 the Turkish Athletics Federation confirmed that an in competition test of Elvan Abeylegesse at the 2007 IAAF World Championships in Athletics had been retested and found to be positive for a controlled substance and that she had been temporarily suspended 76 On 29 March 2017 the IAAF confirmed the positive test announced retroactive disqualifications and voided all of her results from 25 August 2007 until 25 August 2009 including the 2008 Summer Olympics 77 As a result she was stripped of two silver medals she had won in the women s 5 000 and 10 000 meter races In May 2016 following the Russian doping scandal the IOC announced that 32 targeted retests had come back positive for performance enhancing drugs of which Russian News Agency TASS announced that 14 were from Russian athletes 11 of them track and field athletes including 2012 Olympic champion high jumper Anna Chicherova Authorities have sent the B samples for confirmation testing Those confirmed as having taken doping agents stand to lose records and medals from the 2008 games to 2016 under IOC and WADA rules 78 On 18 June 2016 the IWF reported that as a consequence of the IOC s reanalyses of samples from the 2008 Olympic Games the samples of the following seven weightlifters had returned positive results Hripsime Khurshudyan Armenia Intigam Zairov Azerbaijan Alexandru Dudoglo Moldova gold medalist Ilya Ilyin Kazakhstan bronze medalist Nadezda Evstyukhina and silver medalist Marina Shainova both from Russia and Nurcan Taylan Turkey In line with the relevant rules and regulations the IWF imposed mandatory provisional suspensions upon the athletes Zairov and Ilyin had been serving previous suspensions 79 In November 2016 Ilyin was stripped of the gold medal 80 On 22 July 2016 Sibel Ozkan TUR was disqualified due to an anti doping rule violation and stripped of her silver medal 81 Medals have not been reallocated as yet On 28 July 2016 it was announced that retests of samples from the 2008 Summer Olympics detected a positive sample for performance enhancing drugs from Aksana Miankova of Belarus who won a gold medal in the women s hammer throw 82 83 There have been no decisions about stripping and reallocation of medals as yet On 16 August 2016 the Russian women s 4 100 metres relay team was disqualified for doping Russian teammates were stripped of their gold Olympic medals as Yuliya Chermoshanskaya had her samples reanalyzed and tested positive for two prohibited substances 84 The IAAF was requested to modify the results accordingly and to consider any further action within its own competence 85 On 19 August 2016 the Russian women s 4 400 metres relay team was disqualified for doping 86 Russian teammates were stripped of their silver Olympic medals as Anastasiya Kapachinskaya had her samples reanalyzed and tested positive for the same two prohibited substances as Chermoshanskaya 87 On 24 August 2016 the IWF reported that as a consequence of the IOC s reanalyses of samples from the 2008 Olympic Games the samples of the following athletes had returned positive results Nizami Pashayev Azerbaijan Iryna Kulesha Nastassia Novikava Andrei Rybakou all from Belarus Cao Lei Chen Xiexia Liu Chunhong all from China Mariya Grabovetskaya Maya Maneza Irina Nekrassova Vladimir Sedov all from Kazakhstan Khadzhimurat Akkaev Dmitry Lapikov both from Russia and Natalya Davydova and Olha Korobka both from Ukraine In line with the relevant rules and regulations the IWF imposed mandatory provisional suspensions upon the athletes who remain provisionally suspended in view of potential anti doping rule violations until their cases are closed 88 On 29 August 2016 some non official reports indicated that Artur Taymazov of Uzbekistan had been stripped of the 2008 Olympic gold medal in the freestyle wrestling 120 kg event due to a positive test for doping 89 On 31 August 2016 the IOC disqualified six sportspeople for failing doping tests at the 2008 Games They included three Russian medalists weightlifters Nadezhda Evstyukhina bronze medal in the women s 75 kg event Marina Shainova silver medal in the women s 58 kg event and Tatyana Firova who finished second with teammates in the 4 400 m relay Bronze medal weightlifter Tigran Martirosyan of Armenia men s 69 kg event and fellow weightlifters Alexandru Dudoglo 9th place of Moldova and Intigam Zairov 9th place of Azerbaijan were also disqualified 90 On 1 September 2016 the IOC disqualified a further two athletes Cuban discus thrower Yarelys Barrios who won a silver medal in the women s discus was disqualified after testing positive for Acetazolamide and ordered to return her medal Qatari sprinter Samuel Francis who finished 16th in the 100 meters was also disqualified after testing positive for Stanozolol 91 On 13 September 2016 four more Russian athletes were disqualified for doping offenses Two of those were medalists from the 2008 Summer Olympics silver medalist Mariya Abakumova in the women s javelin throw and Denis Alekseyev who was part of the bronze medal team in the men s 4 400 m relay Inga Abitova who finished 6th in the 10 000 meters and cyclist Ekaterina Gnidenko also tested positive for a banned substance and were disqualified 92 On 23 September 2016 some non official reports indicate wrestler Vasyl Fedoryshyn of Ukraine has been stripped of the 2008 Olympic silver medal in the freestyle 60 kg event due to a positive test for doping 93 On 6 October 2016 the IOC disqualified Anna Chicherova of the Russian Federation for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs She won a bronze medal in the women s high jump Russia would likely keep the bronze medal as the fourth place athlete in the competition was also from Russia 94 Through 6 October 2016 the IOC has reported Adverse Analytical Findings for 25 weightlifters from its 2016 retests of samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games all but three of whom tested positive for anabolic agents three Chinese weightlifters were positive for growth hormones 95 On 26 October 2016 the IOC disqualified nine more athletes for failing drugs tests at the 2008 Games Among them were six medal winners weightlifters Andrei Rybakou and Nastassia Novikava both from Belarus and Olha Korobka of Ukraine women s steeplechase bronze medalist Ekaterina Volkova of Russia and freestyle wrestlers Soslan Tigiev of Uzbekistan and Taimuraz Tigiyev of Kazakhstan The others were men s 62 kg weightlifter Sardar Hasanov of Azerbaijan long jumper Wilfredo Martinez of Cuba and 100m hurdler Josephine Nnkiruka Onyia of Spain 96 On 17 November 2016 the IOC disqualified 16 more athletes for failing drugs tests at the 2008 games Among them were 10 medal winners weightlifters Khadzhimurat Akkaev and Dmitry Lapikov and wrestler Khasan Baroev from the Russian Federation weightlifters Mariya Grabovetskaya Irina Nekrassova and wrestler Asset Mambetov from Kazakhstan weightlifter Nataliya Davydova and pole vaulter Denys Yurchenko from Ukraine long triple jumper Hrysopiyi Devetzi of Greece and wrestler Vitaliy Rahimov of Azerbaijan The others were women s 75 kg weightlifter Iryna Kulesha of Belarus women s 63 kg weightlifter Maya Maneza of Kazakhstan women s high jumper Vita Palamar of Ukraine men s 94 kg weightlifter Nizami Pashayev of Azerbaijan men s 85 kg weightlifter Vladimir Sedov of Kazakhstan and women s high jumper Elena Slesarenko of the Russian Federation 97 On 25 November 2016 the IOC disqualified 5 more athletes for failing drugs tests at the 2008 games Among them were 3 medal winners gold medalists 94 kg weightlifter Ilya Ilin of Kazakhstan and hammer thrower Aksana Miankova of Belarus and silver medalist shot putter Natallia Mikhnevich of Belarus The others were shot putter Pavel Lyzhyn and 800m runner Sviatlana Usovich both of Belarus 98 On 12 January 2017 the IOC disqualified five more athletes for failing drug tests at the 2008 Games These included three Chinese women s weightlifting gold medalists Lei Cao 75 kg Xiexia Chen 48 kg and Chunhong Liu 69 kg Two women athletes from Belarus were disqualified bronze medalist shot putter Nadzeya Ostapchuk and hammer thrower Darya Pchelnik who did not medal 99 On 25 January 2017 the IOC stripped Jamaica of the athletics gold medal in the men s 4 100 m relay due to Nesta Carter testing positive for the prohibited substance methylhexaneamine 100 101 102 The IOC also stripped Russian jumper Tatyana Lebedeva of two silver medals in women s triple jump and long jump due to use of turinabol 100 On 1 March 2017 the IOC disqualified Victoria Tereshchuk of Ukraine due to use of turinabol and stripped her of the bronze medal in modern pentathlon 103 By April 2017 the 2008 Summer Olympics has had the most 50 Olympic medals stripped for doping violations Russia is the leading country with 14 medals stripped Disqualified edit Name Country Sport Banned substance Medals DetailsElvan Abeylegesse nbsp Turkey Athletics 5000 Metres10 000 metres nbsp 5 000 meters nbsp 10 000 meters disqualification following post event testing for 2007 IAAF World Championships 77 Christian Ahlmann nbsp Germany Equestrian Individual jumpingTeam jumping CapsaicinBernardo Alves nbsp Brazil Equestrian Individual jumpingTeam jumping CapsaicinLyudmila Blonska nbsp Ukraine Athletics Heptathlon Methyltestosterone nbsp heptathlon IOC post event testing 31 104 Tony Andre Hansen nbsp Norway Equestrian Individual jumpingTeam jumping Capsaicin nbsp team jumping Alissa Kallinikou nbsp Cyprus Athletics 400 metres Testosterone In competition test in July 2008 31 105 Kim Jong su nbsp North Korea Shooting 10 m air pistol50 m pistol Propranolol nbsp men s 10 m air pistol nbsp 50 m pistol Courtney King nbsp United States Equestrian Individual dressageTeam dressage FelbinacDenis Lynch nbsp Ireland Equestrian Individual jumping CapsaicinAndrei Mikhnevich nbsp Belarus Athletics Shot put Retest of sample from 2005 WCh Clenbuterol Methandienone and Oxandrolone nbsp men s shot put IAAF retest of sample from the 2005 IAAF World Championships All results from August 2005 onwards annulled 31 106 107 Tezdzhan Naimova nbsp Bulgaria Athletics 100 metres Tampering with doping control IAAF out of competition test in June 2008 31 105 Rodrigo Pessoa nbsp Brazil Equestrian Individual jumpingTeam jumping NonivamideIgor Razoronov nbsp Ukraine Weightlifting 105 kg Nandrolone 108 Adam Seroczynski nbsp Poland Canoeing K 2 1000 metres ClenbuterolDo Thi Ngan Thuong nbsp Vietnam Gymnastics Artistic qualification FurosemideVanja Perisic nbsp Croatia Athletics 800 Metres CERA IOC re analysis of sample in 2009 31 109 Rashid Ramzi nbsp Bahrain Athletics 1500 Metres CERA nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2009 31 109 Davide Rebellin nbsp Italy Cycling Road Race CERA nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2009 109 Stefan Schumacher nbsp Germany Cycling Time Trial CERA IOC re analysis of sample in 2009 109 Athanasia Tsoumeleka nbsp Greece Athletics 20 Kilometre Walk CERA IOC re analysis of sample in 2009 31 109 Yuliya Chermoshanskaya nbsp Russia Athletics 200 Metres4 100 Metres Relay Stanozolol amp Turinabol nbsp 4x100 metre relay IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 110 Tatyana Firova nbsp Russia Athletics 400 Metres4 400 Metres Relay Turinabol amp Metabolite of 1 Testosterone 1 Androstenedione or 1 Androstenediol nbsp 4 400 metre relay IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 90 Anastasia Kapachinskaya nbsp Russia Athletics 400 Metres4 400 Metres Relay Stanozolol amp Turinabol nbsp 4x400 metre relay IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 111 Hripsime Khurshudyan nbsp Armenia Weightlifting 75 kg Stanozolol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 112 Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan nbsp Armenia Weightlifting 69 kg Stanozolol amp Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 90 Samuel Adelebari Francis nbsp Qatar Athletics 100 Metres200 Metres Stanozolol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 113 Nadezhda Evstyukhina nbsp Russia Weightlifting 75 kg Turinabol amp EPO nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 90 Alexander Pogorelov nbsp Russia Athletics Decathlon Turinabol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 111 Marina Shainova nbsp Russia Weightlifting 58 kg Stanozolol and Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 90 Alexandru Dudoglo nbsp Moldova Weightlifting 69 kg Stanozolol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 90 Nurcan Taylan nbsp Turkey Weightlifting 48 kg Stanozolol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 112 Yarelys Barrios nbsp Cuba Athletics Discus Throw Acetazolamide nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 113 Intigam Zairov nbsp Azerbaijan Weightlifting 85 kg Turinabol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 90 Ivan Yushkov nbsp Russia Athletics Shot Put Stanozolol Oxandrolone amp Turinabol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 111 Sibel Ozkan nbsp Turkey Weightlifting 48 kg Stanozolol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 114 Ilya Ilyin nbsp Kazakhstan Weightlifting 94 kg Stanozolol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 98 Mariya Abakumova nbsp Russia Athletics Javelin Throw Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 115 Inga Abitova nbsp Russia Athletics 10 000 Metres Turinabol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 115 Denis Alexeev nbsp Russia Athletics 400 Metres Turinabol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 115 Anna Chicherova nbsp Russia Athletics High Jump Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 94 Sardar Hasanov nbsp Azerbaijan Weightlifting 62 kg Turinabol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 96 Wilfredo Martinez nbsp Cuba Athletics Long Jump Acetazolamide IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 96 Josephine Nnkiruka Onyia nbsp Spain Athletics 100 Metre Hurdles Methylhexanamine IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 96 Soslan Tigiev nbsp Uzbekistan Wrestling Freestyle 74 kg Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 96 Ekaterina Volkova nbsp Russia Athletics 3000 Metre Steeplechase Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 96 Olha Korobka nbsp Ukraine Weightlifting 75 kg Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 96 Nastassia Novikava nbsp Belarus Weightlifting 53 kg Turinabol amp Stanozolol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 96 Andrei Rybakou nbsp Belarus Weightlifting 85 kg Stanozolol amp Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 96 Taimuraz Tigiyev nbsp Kazakhstan Wrestling Freestyle 96 kg Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 96 Khadzhimurat Akkaev nbsp Russia Weightlifting 94 kg Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 97 Khasan Baroev nbsp Russia Wrestling Greco Roman 120 kg Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 97 Nataliya Davydova nbsp Ukraine Weightlifting 69 kg Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 97 Chrysopigi Devetzi nbsp Greece Athletics Triple Jump Stanozolol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 97 Mariya Grabovetskaya nbsp Kazakhstan Weightlifting 75 kg Turinabol Oxandrolone amp Stanozolol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 97 Iryna Kulesha nbsp Belarus Weightlifting 75 kg Turinabol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 97 Dmitry Lapikov nbsp Russia Weightlifting 105 kg Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 97 Asset Mambetov nbsp Kazakhstan Wrestling Greco Roman 96 kg Stanozolol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 97 Maya Maneza nbsp Kazakhstan Weightlifting 63 kg Stanozolol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 97 Irina Nekrassova nbsp Kazakhstan Weightlifting 63 kg Stanozolol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 97 Vita Palamar nbsp Ukraine Athletics High Jump Turinabol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 97 Nizami Pashayev nbsp Azerbaijan Weightlifting 94 kg Turinabol Oxandrolone amp Stanozolol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 97 Vitaliy Rahimov nbsp Azerbaijan Wrestling Greco Roman 60 kg Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 97 Vladimir Sedov nbsp Kazakhstan Weightlifting 85 kg Stanozolol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 97 Elena Slesarenko nbsp Russia Athletics High Jump Turinabol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 97 Denys Yurchenko nbsp Ukraine Athletics Pole Vault Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 97 Pavel Lyzhyn nbsp Belarus Athletics Shot Put Turinabol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 98 Aksana Miankova nbsp Belarus Athletics Hammer Throw Turinabol amp Oxandrolone nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 98 Natallia Mikhnevich nbsp Belarus Athletics Shot Put Metandienone amp Stanozolol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 98 Sviatlana Vusovich nbsp Belarus Athletics 800 Metres Turinabol IOC re analysis of sample in 2016 98 Nadzeya Ostapchuk nbsp Belarus Athletics Shot Put Turinabol amp Tamoxifen nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2017 99 Darya Pchelnik nbsp Belarus Athletics Hammer Throw Turinabol IOC re analysis of sample in 2017 99 Cao Lei nbsp China Weightlifting 75 kg GHRP 2 amp Metabolite nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2017 99 Chen Xiexia nbsp China Weightlifting 48 kg GHRP 2 amp Metabolite nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2017 99 Liu Chunhong nbsp China Weightlifting 69 kg GHRP 2 Metabolite amp Sibutramine nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2017 99 Nesta Carter nbsp Jamaica Athletics 4 100 Metres Relay Methylhexanamine nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2017 116 Tatyana Lebedeva nbsp Russia Athletics Triple Jump Long Jump Turinabol nbsp nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2017 116 Victoria Tereshchuk nbsp Ukraine Modern Pentathlon Individual Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2017 117 Vasyl Fedoryshyn nbsp Ukraine Wrestling Freestyle 60 kg Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2017 118 Artur Taymazov nbsp Uzbekistan Wrestling Freestyle 120 kg Turinabol amp Stanozolol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2017 118 Tatyana Chernova nbsp Russia Athletics Heptathlon Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2017 119 Denis Alexeev nbsp Russia Athletics Men s 4 400 m relay Turinabol nbsp IOC re analysis of sample in 2017 92 Did not start edit Athletes who were selected for the Games but provisionally suspended before competing Name Country Sport Banned substance DetailsMarta Bastianelli nbsp Italy Cycling Fenfluramine Testing at the U 23 world championships 120 Fani Halkia nbsp Greece Athletics Methyltrienolone Pre Games testing in Japan 121 122 123 Maria Isabel Moreno nbsp Spain Cycling Erythropoietin Pre Games testing in Olympic village Beijing 124 Tatyana Tomashova nbsp Russia Athletics IAAF out of competition tests in May and August 2007 125 Yelena Soboleva nbsp Russia Athletics IAAF out of competition tests in May and August 2007 125 Svetlana Cherkasova nbsp Russia Athletics IAAF out of competition tests in May and August 2007 125 Yuliya Fomenko nbsp Russia Athletics IAAF out of competition tests in May and August 2007 125 Darya Pishchalnikova nbsp Russia Athletics IAAF out of competition tests in May and August 2007 125 Gulfiya Khanafeyeva nbsp Russia Athletics IAAF out of competition tests in May and August 2007 125 Olga Yegorova nbsp Russia Athletics IAAF out of competition tests in May and August 2007 125 2012 London edit Main article 2012 Summer Olympics It was announced prior to the Summer games that half of all competitors would be tested for drugs with 150 scientists set to take 6 000 samples between the start of the games and the end of the Paralympic games at GlaxoSmithKline s New Frontiers Science Park site in Harlow Essex 126 All medalists would also be tested The Olympic anti doping laboratory would test up to 400 samples every day for more than 240 prohibited substances 126 The head of the World Anti Doping Agency WADA John Fahey announced on 24 July that 107 athletes had been sanctioned for doping offences in the six months to 19 June 127 The In competition period began on 16 July During the In competition period Olympic competitors can be tested at any time without notice or in advance 128 British sprinter Dwain Chambers cyclist David Millar and shot putter Carl Myerscough 129 competed in London after the British Olympic Association s policy of punishing drug cheats with lifetime bans was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport 126 Russian Darya Pishchalnikova participated in the 2012 Olympics and was awarded a silver medal However she tested positive for the anabolic steroid oxandrolone in the samples taken in May 2012 In December 2012 she sent an email to WADA containing details on an alleged state run doping program in Russia According to The New York Times the email reached three top WADA officials but the agency decided not to open an inquiry and instead sent her email to Russian sports officials 130 In April 2013 Pishchalnikova was banned by the Russian Athletics Federation for ten years and her results from May 2012 were annulled meaning she was set on track to lose her Olympic medal 131 Her ban by the Russian Athletics Federation was likely in retaliation Gold medalists at the games who had been involved in previous doping offences included Alexander Vinokourov the winner of the men s road race 132 Tatyana Lysenko the winner of the women s hammer throw Asli Cakir Alptekin winner of the women s 1500 meters and Sandra Perkovic winner of the women s discus throw 133 134 Other competitors at the Summer games involved in previous doping cases included American athletes Justin Gatlin and LaShawn Merritt 135 and Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake 136 Spanish athlete Angel Mullera was first selected for the 3000 m steeplechase and later removed when emails were published in which he discussed EPO use with a trainer 137 Mullera appealed to CAS which ordered the Spanish Olympic Committee to allow him to participate 138 Prior to the Olympic competition several prominent track and field athletes were ruled out of the competition due to failed tests World indoor medallists Dimitrios Chondrokoukis Debbie Dunn and Mariem Alaoui Selsouli were withdrawn from their Olympic teams in July for doping as was 2004 Olympic medallist Zoltan Kovago 139 140 141 At the Olympic competition Tameka Williams admitted to taking a banned stimulant and was removed from the games 142 Ivan Tsikhan did not compete in the hammer throw as a retest of his sample from the 2004 Athens Olympics where he won silver was positive 143 Amine Laalou 144 Marina Marghieva 145 Diego Palomeque 146 and defending 50 km walk champion Alex Schwazer were also suspended before taking part in their events 147 Syrian hurdler Ghfran Almouhamad became the first track and field athlete to be suspended following a positive in competition doping sample 148 Nadzeya Astapchuk was stripped of the women s shot put title after her sample came back positive for the banned anabolic agent metenolone 149 Karin Melis Mey was withdrawn before the long jump final when an earlier failed doping test was confirmed 150 A WADA report released in 2015 detailed an extensive Russian state sponsored doping program implicating athletes coaches various Russian institutions doctors and labs The report stated that the London Olympic Games were in a sense sabotaged by the admission of athletes who should have not been competing and detailed incidents of bribery and bogus urine samples The report recommended that Russia be barred from track and field events for the 2016 Olympics It also recommended lifetime bans for five coaches and five athletes from the country including runners Mariya Savinova Ekaterina Poistogova Anastasiya Bazdyreva Kristina Ugarova and Tatjana Myazina 151 152 On 15 June 2016 it was announced that four London 2012 Olympic weightlifting champions had tested positive for performance enhancing drugs They include Kazakhstan s Ilya Ilyin 94 kg Zulfiya Chinshanlo 53 kg Maiya Maneza 63 kg and Svetlana Podobedova 75 kg If confirmed Kazakhstan would drop from 12th to 23rd in the 2012 medal standings Six other lifters who competed at the 2012 Games also tested positive after hundreds of samples were reanalysed Among them are Russia s Apti Aukhadov silver at 85 kg Ukraine s Yuliya Kalina bronze at 58 kg Belarusian Maryna Shkermankova bronze at 69 kg Azerbaijan s Boyanka Kostova and Belarus duo Dzina Sazanavets and Yauheni Zharnasek 153 On 27 July 2016 IWF has reported in the second wave of re sampling that three silver medalists from Russia namely Natalya Zabolotnaya at 75 kg Aleksandr Ivanov at 94 kg and Svetlana Tsarukaeva at 63 kg together with bronze medalists Armenian Hripsime Khurshudyan at 75 kg Belarusian Iryna Kulesha at 75 kg and Moldovan Cristina Iovu at 53 kg have tested positive for steroid dehydrochlormethyltestosterone 154 Aukhadov was stripped of his silver medal by the IOC on 18 October 2016 155 On 27 October 2016 Maiya Maneza was stripped of her gold medal 156 In November 2016 Ilyin was stripped of the London gold medal 80 On 13 July 2016 the IOC announced that Yuliya Kalina of Ukraine had been disqualified from the 2012 Summer Olympics and ordered to return the bronze medal from the 58 kg weightlifting event Reanalysis of Kalina s samples from London 2012 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance dehydrochlormethyltestosterone turinabol 157 The positions were adjusted accordingly 158 On 9 August 2016 the IOC announced that Oleksandr Pyatnytsya of Ukraine would be stripped of his silver medal in the javelin throw after he tested positive for the prohibited substance dehydrochlormethyltestosterone turinabol 159 Redistribution of medals has not yet been announced but the likely case is the silver and bronze medals will be given to Finland and Czech Republic instead 160 On 20 August 2016 the IOC announced that Yevgeniya Kolodko of Russia would be stripped of her silver medal in shot put after she tested positive of dehydrochlormethyltestosterone turinabol and ipamorelin 161 Medals are not reallocated yet On 29 August 2016 a report indicated that a retested sample for Besik Kudukhov of Russia the silver medalist in the men s 60 kg freestyle wrestling event had returned a positive result later disclosed as dehydrochlormethyltestosterone 89 Kudakhov died in a car crash in December 2013 On 27 October 2016 the IOC dropped all disciplinary proceedings against Kudukhov stating that such proceedings cannot be conducted against a deceased person As a result it said Olympic results that would have been reviewed will remain uncorrected which is the unavoidable consequence of the fact that the proceedings cannot move forward 162 On 13 September 2016 the IWF reported that the men s 94 kg weightlifting bronze medalist Moldova s Anatolie Ciricu had tested positive for the dehydrochlormethyltestosterone 163 On 6 October 2016 the IWF reported that as a consequence of the IOC s reanalyses of samples from the 2012 Olympic Games a sample of Norayr Vardanyan who represented Armenia had returned a positive result In line with the relevant rules and regulations the IWF imposed mandatory provisional suspensions upon Vardanyan who remains provisionally suspended until his case is closed 164 On 12 January 2017 the IOC disqualified Vardanyan Through 6 October 2016 the IOC had reported Adverse Analytical Findings for 23 weightlifters from its 2016 retests of samples from the 2012 London Olympic Games all of whom tested positive for anabolic agents 95 On 11 October 2016 Tatyana Lysenko of the Russian Federation was disqualified from the women s hammer throw in which she won the gold medal She had tested positive for a banned substance The IOC requested the IAAF to modify the results of this event accordingly The silver medalist Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland would likely take the gold medal in her place 165 On 18 October 2016 the IOC disqualified Apti Aukhadov of the Russian Federation for doping and stripped him of the silver medal 166 The IOC requested the IWF to modify the results of this event accordingly it has not yet published modified results 158 On 18 October 2016 the IOC reported that Maksym Mazuryk of Ukraine who competed in the Men s Pole Vault event was disqualified from the 2012 London Games in which he ranked 18th Re analysis of Mazuryk s samples resulted in a positive test for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone On 27 October 2016 the IOC disqualified a further eight athletes for failing doping tests at the games This included four medal winners in weightlifting Zulfiya Chinshanlo Maiya Maneza and Svetlana Podobedova all from Kazakhstan and Maryna Shkermankova of Belarus The others were hammer thrower Kirill Ikonnikov of Russia women s 69 kg weightlifter Dzina Sazanavets of Belarus pole vaulter Dmitry Starodubtsev of Russia and men s 105 kg weightlifter Yauheni Zharnasek of Belarus 156 On 21 November 2016 the IOC disqualified a further 12 athletes for failing doping tests at the games This included 6 medal winners in weightlifting including Alexandr Ivanov Russia Anatoli Ciricu Moldova Cristina Iovu Moldova Natalya Zabolotnaya Russia Iryna Kulesha Belarus and Hripsime Khurshudyan Armenia 167 Moldova has lost all its 2012 London medals The others were hammer thrower Oleksandr Drygol and long jumper Margaryta Tverdokhlib both of Ukraine 85 kg weightlifter Rauli Tsirekidze of Georgia 94 kg weightlifter Almas Uteshov of Kazakhstan 94 kg weightlifter Andrey Demanov of Russia and 3000m steeplechaser Yuliya Zaripova of Russia who had previously been sanctioned in March 2016 by the Court of Arbitration for Sport On 25 November 2016 the IOC disqualified 4 more athletes for failing drug tests at the 2012 games They were gold medalist 94 kg weightlifter Ilya Ilin of Kazakhstan hammer thrower Aksana Miankova and long jumper Nastassia Mironchyk Ivanova both of Belarus and 58 kg weightlifter Boyanka Kostova of Azerbaijan 98 On 29 November 2016 the Court of Arbitration for Sport issued a decision that all results achieved by 2012 Olympic heptathlon bronze medalist Tatyana Chernova of Russia between 15 August 2011 and 22 July 2013 are annulled It also annulled all of Yekaterina Sharmina s results between 17 June 2011 and 5 August 2015 including her 33rd place finish in the 2012 women s 1500m 168 CAS ruled that they have been found to have committed an anti doping rule violation of the International Athletic Association Federation IAAF Competition Rules after analysis of their Athlete Biological Passports ABP showed evidence of blood doping 169 On 12 January 2017 the IOC disqualified three weightlifters for failing drug tests at the 2012 games Two competed in men s 94 kg weightlifting Intigam Zairov of Azerbaijan and Norayr Vardanyan of Armenia Women s 63 kg weightlifter Sibel Simsek of Turkey was disqualified None was a medalist at these games 99 On 1 February 2017 the IOC disqualified three athletes due to failed doping tests all of whom tested positive for turinabol Russian women s discus thrower Vera Ganeeva who finished 23rd Turkish boxer Adem Kilicci who ranked 5th in men s 69 75 kg boxing and Russian 400m runner Antonina Krivoshapka who finished 6th were disqualified Krivoshapka also was part of the Russian silver medal winning women s 4 400 m relay team which was stripped of the silver medals 170 In December 2014 a documentary aired on German TV in which 800m gold medalist Mariya Savinova allegedly admitted to using banned substances on camera 171 In November 2015 Savinova was one of five Russian runners the World Anti Doping Agency recommended to receive a lifetime ban for doping during the London Olympics along with 800m bronze medalist Ekaterina Poistogova On 10 February 2017 the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a four year ban that effectively stripped Savinova of her Olympic gold and other medals 172 On 7 April 2017 CAS refused to decide on disqualification from 2012 and disqualify Ekaterina Poistogova from 2015 173 Thus Ekaterina Poistogova retained her Olympic 2012 medal at women s 800 metres athletic event As of December 2022 the 2012 Summer Olympics has seen a record 40 Olympic medals stripped for doping violations Russia is the leading country with 17 medals stripped On 21 March 2022 the Athletics Integrity Unit of World Athletics issued a two year ban for Russian racewalker Elena Lashmanova starting from 9 March 2021 and also disqualified her results from 18 February 2012 to 3 January 2014 thus stripping her gold medal Disqualified edit Name Country Sport Banned substance Medals Details of testHussain Al Hamdah nbsp Saudi Arabia Athletics 5000 metres Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2013 w results annulled from 26 March 2009 onwards 31 174 Gamze Bulut nbsp Turkey Athletics 1500 metres Biological passport abnormalities nbsp IAAF sanction imposed in 2017 175 Mariya Savinova nbsp Russia Athletics 800 metres Biological passport abnormalities nbsp CAS confirmed all results annulled from July 2010 to August 2013 176 Ghfran Almouhamad nbsp Syria Athletics 400 metres hurdles Methylhexaneamine IOC pre competition testing at 2012 Summer Olympics 31 177 Elena Arzhakova nbsp Russia Athletics 800 metres Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2013 w results annulled from 12 July 2011 onwards 31 178 179 Sergey Bakulin nbsp Russia Athletics 50 km race walk Biological passport abnormalities IAAF CAS sanction imposed 2016 w results annulled from 25 February 2011 to 24 December 2012 180 181 Andrey Krivov nbsp Russia Athletics 20 km race walk Biological passport abnormalities IAAF CAS sanction imposed 2017 w results annulled from 20 May 2011 to 6 July 2013 182 Valeriy Borchin nbsp Russia Athletics 20 km race walk Biological passport abnormalities IAAF CAS sanction imposed 2016 w results annulled from 14 August 2009 to 15 October 2012 180 181 Abderrahime Bouramdane nbsp Morocco Athletics Marathon Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w results annulled from 14 April 2011 onwards 180 183 Yolanda Caballero nbsp Colombia Athletics Marathon Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2014 w results annulled from 24 October 2011 onwards 180 183 Asli Cakir Alptekin nbsp Turkey Athletics 1500 metres Biological passport abnormalities nbsp IAAF CAS sanction imposed 2015 w results annulled from 29 July 2010 onwards 184 185 Yekaterina Sharmina nbsp Russia Athletics 1500 metres Biological passport abnormalities IAAF CAS sanction imposed 2016 w results annulled from 17 June 2011 to 5 August 2015 186 Nicholas Delpopolo nbsp United States Judo 73 kg Cannabis IOC post event testing at 2012 Summer Olympics 187 Bahar Dogan nbsp Turkey Athletics Marathon Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w results annulled from 3 June 2011 onwards 180 183 Marta Dominguez nbsp Spain Athletics Steeplechase Biological passport abnormalities IAAF CAS sanction imposed 2015 w results annulled from 5 August 2009 onwards 180 188 Hamza Driouch nbsp Qatar Athletics 1500 metres Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w results annulled from 2 August 2012 onwards 31 189 190 Tyson Gay nbsp United States Athletics 100 metres4 100 meters Anabolic androgenic steroids nbsp 4 100 meters USADA investigation after positive for anabolic androgenic steroids in 2013 admittance 31 191 192 193 Yelizaveta Grechishnikova nbsp Russia Athletics 10 000 metres Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2013 w results annulled from 18 August 2009 onwards 31 179 194 Semoy Hackett nbsp Trinidad and Tobago Athletics 100 metres 200 metres 4 100 metres relay Methylhexaneamine Positive from Division I Outdoor Track amp Field Championships in June 2012 31 195 196 Tetyana Hamera Shmyrko nbsp Ukraine Athletics Marathon Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w results annulled from 26 August 2011 onwards 180 183 Hassan Hirt nbsp France Athletics 5000 metres EPO IOC pre Games testing 31 197 Vladimir Kanaikin nbsp Russia Athletics 20 km race walk Biological passport abnormalities IAAF CAS sanction imposed 2016 w results annulled from 25 February 2011 to 17 December 2012 180 181 Olga Kaniskina nbsp Russia Athletics 20 km race walk Biological passport abnormalities nbsp IAAF CAS sanction imposed 2016 w results annulled from 15 August 2009 to 15 October 2012 180 181 Natallia Kareiva nbsp Belarus Athletics 1500 metres Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2014 w results annulled from 28 July 2010 onwards 31 179 198 199 Ummu Kiraz nbsp Turkey Athletics Marathon Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w results annulled from 3 June 2011 onwards 180 183 Sergey Kirdyapkin nbsp Russia Athletics 50 km race walk Biological passport abnormalities nbsp IAAF CAS sanction imposed 2016 w results annulled from 20 August 2009 to 15 October 2012 180 181 Blaza Klemencic nbsp Slovenia Cycling MTB EPO UCI reanalysis of sample from 27 March 2012 in 2015 All results annulled from 27 March 2012 until 31 December 2012 200 Yekaterina Kostetskaya nbsp Russia Athletics 1500 metres Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2014 w results annulled from 30 August 2011 onwards 31 201 202 Zalina Marghieva nbsp Moldova Athletics Hammer throw 2009 WCh retest Stanozolol Oral Turinabol IAAF retesting of samples from 2009 IAAF World Championships 31 203 Karin Melis Mey nbsp Turkey Athletics Long jump Testosterone Positive from the 2012 European Athletics Championships in June 31 203 Provisionally suspended after the qualifying round at the Games Andrei Mikhnevich nbsp Belarus Athletics Shot put 2005 WCh retest Clenbuterol Methandienone and Oxandrolone IAAF retest of sample from the 2005 IAAF World Championships All results from August 2005 onwards annulled 31 106 Anna Mishchenko nbsp Ukraine Athletics 1500 m Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w results annulled from 28 June 2012 onwards 180 183 Andriy Semenov nbsp Ukraine Athletics Shot put Re analysis of sample taken in 2011 AIU sanction imposed 2019 204 Semiha Mutlu nbsp Turkey Athletics 20 km race walk Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w results annulled from 20 August 2011 onwards 180 183 Nadzeya Ostapchuk nbsp Belarus Athletics Shot put Methenolone nbsp IOC post event testing at 2012 Summer Olympics two separate positive samples 31 205 Darya Pishchalnikova nbsp Russia Athletics Discus throw Oxandrolone nbsp Random out of competition test in May 2012 All her results Including those at the 2012 Summer Olympics since May 2012 were annulled by the IAAF in April 2013 31 206 Hysen Pulaku nbsp Albania Weightlifting 77 kg Stanozolol IOC pre competition testing at 2012 Summer Olympics 207 Meliz Redif nbsp Turkey Athletics 4 x 400 metres Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w results annulled from 26 June 2012 onwards 180 183 Pinar Saka nbsp Turkey Athletics 400 metres 4 x 400 metres Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2014 w results annulled from 18 June 2010 onwards 31 179 208 Mohammed Shaween nbsp Saudi Arabia Athletics 1500 metres Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2014 w results annulled from 12 June 2011 onwards 31 201 202 Anzhelika Shevchenko nbsp Ukraine Athletics 1500 metres Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2013 w results annulled from 2 July 2011 onwards 31 179 Liliya Shobukhova nbsp Russia Athletics Marathon Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w results annulled from 9 October 2009 onwards 209 210 Svitlana Shmidt nbsp Ukraine Athletics Steeplechase Biological passport abnormalities IAAF sanction imposed 2015 w results annulled from 8 March 2012 onwards 31 211 212 213 Soslan Tigiev nbsp Uzbekistan Wrestling Freestyle 74 kg Methylhexaneamine span, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library, article, read, download, free, free download, mp3, video, mp4, 3gp, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, picture, music, song, movie, book, game, games. |