The Russian was banned for 10 years in September and has now been stripped of her Olympic 1500m medal in London.
It’s all over for Tatiana Tomashova at the London 2012 Olympics Following a 10-year drug ban imposed in September of this year, Tomashova’s result from London has now been revoked be announced.
The Athletics Integrity Unit says it notified the International Olympic Committee of the development after the Russian athlete failed to appeal a recent 10-year ban by the Court of Arbitration for Sport for “use of a prohibited substance/method”.
The ban includes a disqualification for Tomashova’s results from 21 June 2012 to 3 January 2015, including the silver medal she was awarded in 2018 after the first two London 2012 finalists, Alptekin and Bulut, were disqualified. are for doping violations. .
“Tomashova’s sanction stemmed from the AIU’s allegations, based on historical data from the former Moscow laboratory’s Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), which was the court of first instance in this case at the time The decision of the tribunal was subject to appeal to the CAS Appeals Division, but the CAS confirmed that no appeal had been filed by the athlete, and the decision of the trial court is therefore now final and binding.
“Therefore, World Athletics and AIU have moved on to the next steps. The World Athletics Division has disqualified Tomasova’s results and has since informed the IOC that World Athletics has amended the relevant results and rankings on their website. The IOC can now proceed to redistribute medals and update the IOC database.”
Tomaszova is the fifth of 13 finalists in the 1500m final to be retroactively suspended and the result of the race disqualified. to break the process.
However, Tomaszova will retain her world 1500m titles from Paris 2003 and Helsinki 2005, plus the silver she won in the 1500m at the 2004 Olympics behind Britain’s Kelly Holmes.
Kelly Holmes defeats Tatiana Tomashova (Mark Shearman)
In Paris in 2003, she finished ahead of another doper, Turkey’s Sureyya Ayhan, plus Great Britain’s Haley Tallet, so many observers will feel that Tallet was unlucky not to be crowned world champion that year.
In Helsinki in 2005, Tomasova beat two more convicted dopers, Russian Olga Egorova, Buchra Geziele (France) and Yelena Soboleva (Russia), and 5th-placed Mariam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain became the first athlete not to fail a drug test in her career.
Jamal was also subsequently crowned Olympic champion at the 2012 London Games as he finished third in the 1500m final.
“The AAU is pleased to close yet another LIMS case and ensure athletes who have competed cleanly are recognized as legitimate medalists. We are committed to protecting the integrity of athletics and, even when events have long since passed, we will fully investigate potential violations.” “said AAU President David Haoman.
“I think this result will still be meaningful to those who are justly recognized as a consequence.”
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