List of stripped European Athletics Championships medals

The following is a list of stripped medals at the European Athletics Championships.

IAAF Rule 32.2.a

RULE 32 – Anti-Doping Rule Violations

1. Doping is defined as the occurrence of one or more of the anti-doping rule violations set out in Rule 32.2 of these Anti-Doping Rules.

2. Athletes or other Persons shall be responsible for knowing what constitutes an anti-doping rule violation and the substances and methods which have been included on the Prohibited List. The following constitute anti-doping rule violations:

(a) Presence of a Prohibited Substance or its Metabolites or Markers in an Athlete's Sample.^[1]

Stripped of European Championships medals

2010 Barcelona

At the 2010 European Athletics Championships 14 medals was stripped, 3 men and 11 women.

Event	Disqualified	Country	Variation date	Notes	New Podium	Original rank
Men's 3000 m steeplechase	José Luis Blanco	Spain	1 February 2011	^[2]	Ion Luchianov	4
Men's shot put	Andrei Mikhnevich	Belarus	31 July 2013	^[3]	Tomasz Majewski Ralf Bartels Māris Urtāns	4
Men's 20 km race walk	Stanislav Emelyanov	Russia	30 July 2014	^[4]	Alex Schwazer João Vieira Robert Heffernan	4
Women's 800 m	Mariya Savinova	Russia	10 February 2017	^[5]	Yvonne Hak Jennifer Meadows Lucia Klocová	4
Women's 5000 m	Alemitu Bekele	Turkey	30 December 2012	^[6]	Elvan Abeylegesse Sara Moreira Jéssica Augusto	4
Women's 10,000 m	Inga Abitova	Russia	11 October 2012	^[7]	Jéssica Augusto Hilda Kibet	4
Women's marathon	Živile Balciunaite	Lithuania	5 April 2011	^[8]	Anna Incerti Tetyana Filonyuk Isabellah Andersson	4 5
Women's marathon	Nailya Yulamanova	Russia	3 July 2012	^[9]	Anna Incerti Tetyana Filonyuk Isabellah Andersson	4 5
Women's 20 kn race walk	Olga Kaniskina	Russia	25 January 2015	^[10]	Anisya Kirdyapkina Vera Sokolova Melanie Seeger	4
Women's 3000 m steeplechase	Marta Domínguez	Spain	19 November 2015	^[11]	Hatti Dean Wioletta Frankiewicz	4 5
Women's 3000 m steeplechase	Lyubov Kharlamova	Russia	2 August 2017	^[12]	Hatti Dean Wioletta Frankiewicz	4 5
Women's 4 × 400 m relay	Anastasiya Kapachinskaya Antonina Krivoshapka Kseniya Ustalova Tatyana Firova	Russia	25 July 2012	^[13]	Germany Fabienne Kohlmann Esther Cremer Janin Lindenberg Claudia Hoffmann Great Britain Nicola Sanders Marilyn Okoro Lee McConnell Perri Shakes-Drayton Italy Chiara Bazzoni Marta Milani Maria Enrica Spacca Libania Grenot	4
Women's Shot put	Nadzeya Ostapchuk	Belarus	12 January 2017	^[14]	Anna Avdeyeva Janina Karolchyk Olga Ivanova	4 5
Women's Shot put	Natallia Mikhnevich	Belarus	12 January 2017	^[14]	Anna Avdeyeva Janina Karolchyk Olga Ivanova	4 5

2012 Helsinki

At the 2012 European Athletics Championships 9 medals were stripped, 1 man and 8 women.

Event	Medal	Disqualified	Country	Variation date	Notes	New Podium	Original rank
Men's discus throw		Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary	26 July 2012	^[15]	Rutger Smith	4
Women's 800 m		Elena Arzhakova	Russia	29 January 2013	^[16]	Lynsey Sharp Maryna Arzamasova Liliya Lobanova	4 5
Women's 800 m		Irina Maracheva	Russia	25 January 2016	^[17]	Lynsey Sharp Maryna Arzamasova Liliya Lobanova	4 5
Women's 1500 m		Aslı Çakır Alptekin	Turkey	17 August 2015	^[18]	Nuria Fernández Diana Sujew Tereza Čapková	5 6 7
		Gamze Bulut	Turkey	1 June 2016	^[19]
		Anna Mishchenko	Ukraine	26 February 2016	^[18]
	4th	Yekaterina Ishova	Russia		^[18]
Women's 3000 m steeplechase		Svitlana Shmidt	Ukraine	12 April 2015	^[20]	Antje Möldner-Schmidt Gesa Felicitas Krause	4
Women's 100 m hurdles		Nevin Yanit	Turkey	29 August 2013	^[21]	Alina Talay Katsiaryna Paplauskaya Beate Schrott	4
Women's heptathlon		Lyudmyla Yosypenko	Ukraine	30 December 2012	^[22]	Laura Ikauniece Aiga Grabuste	4

2014 Zürich

At the 2014 European Athletics Championships 1 medals was stripped, 1 men and 0 women.

Event	Medal	Disqualified	Country	Variation date	Notes	New Podium	Original rank
Men's 4 × 400 m relay		Maksim Dyldin Pavel Ivashko Nikita Uglov Vladimir Krasnov	Russia		^[23]	Poland Rafał Omelko Kacper Kozłowski Łukasz Krawczuk Jakub Krzewina France Mame-Ibra Anne, Teddy Venel Mamoudou Hanne Thomas Jordier	4

2016 Amsterdam

At the 2016 European Athletics Championships 0 medals was stripped as of 29 August 2018.

2018 Berlin

At the 2018 European Athletics Championships 0 medals was stripped as of 29 August 2018.

References

^ "IAAF Competition Rules" (PDF). usatf.org. p. 45. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ "Steeplechaser Blanco's doping ban upheld". cbc.ca. 1 February 2011. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ "ANDREI MIKHNEVICH (BLR) – RESULTS ANNULLED FROM AUGUST 2005". iaaf.org. 31 July 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ "Atletica, Schwazer oro europeo dopo 4 anni. Dopato il trionfatore di Barcellona". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 30 July 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ "THE COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORT (CAS) IMPOSES FOUR-YEAR PERIOD OF INELIGIBILITY ON RUSSIAN ATHLETE MARIYA SAVINOVA-FARNOSOVA" (PDF). tas-cas.org. 10 February 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ "European Championships 5000 meters". tas-cas.org. Retrieved 28 August 2018. Alemitu Bekele Degfa (TUR) finished 1st in 14:52.20 but was disqualified retroactively from December 2012 for drug use.
^ "Russia's Abitova handed two-year doping ban". reuters.com. 7 November 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ "European marathon champion Balciunaite given doping ban". bbc.com. 5 April 2011. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ "London 2012 Olympics: Russian athletics trio banned for doping offences". telegraph.co.uk. 3 July 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ "THE COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORT (CAS) UPHOLDS SIX APPEALS FILED BY THE IAAF AGAINST RUSSIAN ATHLETES" (PDF). tas-cas.org. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ "World champion steeplechaser Marta Dominguez banned for doping". si.com. 19 November 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ "Russia bans six athletes on eve of appeal to have IAAF suspension lifted". insidethegames.biz. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2018. That means she is set to lose the silver medal she won in the 3,000 metres steeplechase at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona
^ "2010 European Athletics Championships - 4 x 400m Women - Final". european-athletics.org. 25 July 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2018. DQ IAAF Rule 32.2.a
^ ^a ^b "2010 European Athletics Championships - Shot Put Women Final". european-athletics.org. Retrieved 28 August 2018. DQ IAAF Rule 32.2.a
^ "Hungarian discus thrower banned for doping offense". reuters.com. 26 July 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ "Pishchalnikova given 10-year doping ban". reuters.com. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2018. In a separate case, European 800 meters champion Yelena Arzhakova was banned for two years, starting from January 29, 2013
^ "Russian runner stripped of European silver medal for doping". businessinsider.com. 25 January 2016. Archived from the original on 29 August 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c "The dirtiest race in history?". sportsintegrityinitiative.com. 7 March 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2018. In this race, both Alptekin and Bulut finished first and second respectively, while the Ukraine's Anna Mischenko, who finished third, and Russia's Ekaterina Ishova, who finished fourth, have both since been disqualified by the IAAF for an ADRV and abnormal ABP results respectively.
^ "Gamze Bulut'un madalyası alındı" (in Turkmen). haberturk.com. 1 June 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
^ "Ukraine apologise to WADA and IAAF over embarrassing amnesty claim for drugs cheats". insidethegames.biz. 12 April 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2018. Anna Mishchenko and Svitlana Shmidt also lost the silver medals they had won in the 1500 and 3,000 metres steeplechase respectively at the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki following the retests.
^ "Nevin Yanit: Drugs ban for European hurdles champion". bbc.co.uk. 29 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
^ "Yosypenko banned for doping". trackandfieldnews.com. 12 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2018.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "2014 European Athletics Championships - 4 x 400m Men - Final". european-athletics.org. Retrieved 29 August 2018. DQ IAAF Rule 32.2.a

External links

European Athletics Championships History at EAA web site

[1] "IAAF Competition Rules" (PDF). usatf.org. p. 45. Retrieved 28 August 2018.

[2] "Steeplechaser Blanco's doping ban upheld". cbc.ca. 1 February 2011. Retrieved 28 August 2018.

[3] "ANDREI MIKHNEVICH (BLR) – RESULTS ANNULLED FROM AUGUST 2005". iaaf.org. 31 July 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2018.

[4] "Atletica, Schwazer oro europeo dopo 4 anni. Dopato il trionfatore di Barcellona". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 30 July 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2018.

[5] "THE COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORT (CAS) IMPOSES FOUR-YEAR PERIOD OF INELIGIBILITY ON RUSSIAN ATHLETE MARIYA SAVINOVA-FARNOSOVA" (PDF). tas-cas.org. 10 February 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2018.

[6] "European Championships 5000 meters". tas-cas.org. Retrieved 28 August 2018. Alemitu Bekele Degfa (TUR) finished 1st in 14:52.20 but was disqualified retroactively from December 2012 for drug use.

[7] "Russia's Abitova handed two-year doping ban". reuters.com. 7 November 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2018.

[8] "European marathon champion Balciunaite given doping ban". bbc.com. 5 April 2011. Retrieved 28 August 2018.

[9] "London 2012 Olympics: Russian athletics trio banned for doping offences". telegraph.co.uk. 3 July 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2018.

[10] "THE COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORT (CAS) UPHOLDS SIX APPEALS FILED BY THE IAAF AGAINST RUSSIAN ATHLETES" (PDF). tas-cas.org. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2018.

[11] "World champion steeplechaser Marta Dominguez banned for doping". si.com. 19 November 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2018.

[12] "Russia bans six athletes on eve of appeal to have IAAF suspension lifted". insidethegames.biz. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2018. That means she is set to lose the silver medal she won in the 3,000 metres steeplechase at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona

[13] "2010 European Athletics Championships - 4 x 400m Women - Final". european-athletics.org. 25 July 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2018. DQ IAAF Rule 32.2.a

[SHOT-14] "2010 European Athletics Championships - Shot Put Women Final". european-athletics.org. Retrieved 28 August 2018. DQ IAAF Rule 32.2.a

[15] "Hungarian discus thrower banned for doping offense". reuters.com. 26 July 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2018.

[16] "Pishchalnikova given 10-year doping ban". reuters.com. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2018. In a separate case, European 800 meters champion Yelena Arzhakova was banned for two years, starting from January 29, 2013

[17] "Russian runner stripped of European silver medal for doping". businessinsider.com. 25 January 2016. Archived from the original on 29 August 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2018.

[FOUR-18] "The dirtiest race in history?". sportsintegrityinitiative.com. 7 March 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2018. In this race, both Alptekin and Bulut finished first and second respectively, while the Ukraine's Anna Mischenko, who finished third, and Russia's Ekaterina Ishova, who finished fourth, have both since been disqualified by the IAAF for an ADRV and abnormal ABP results respectively.

[19] "Gamze Bulut'un madalyası alındı" (in Turkmen). haberturk.com. 1 June 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2018.

[20] "Ukraine apologise to WADA and IAAF over embarrassing amnesty claim for drugs cheats". insidethegames.biz. 12 April 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2018. Anna Mishchenko and Svitlana Shmidt also lost the silver medals they had won in the 1500 and 3,000 metres steeplechase respectively at the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki following the retests.

[21] "Nevin Yanit: Drugs ban for European hurdles champion". bbc.co.uk. 29 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2018.

[22] "Yosypenko banned for doping". trackandfieldnews.com. 12 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2018.^{[permanent dead link]}

[23] "2014 European Athletics Championships - 4 x 400m Men - Final". european-athletics.org. Retrieved 29 August 2018. DQ IAAF Rule 32.2.a

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