IOC disqualified three more medalists of the Olympics in Beijing

The International Olympic Committee disqualified three Russian athletes following the results of the doping industry rechecks taken at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. This is stated in the statement of the IOC.

Forbidden drugs were found in the samples of the athlete Tatyana Firova, who won a silver medal in the 4x400 m relay, Maria Shainova’s bar (silver in the 58 kg weight category) and Nadezhda Evstyukhina (bronze in the 75 kg weight category).

Disqualification is also imposed on representatives of other countries.

All winners of the games were obliged to return the medals. The National Olympic Committee is instructed to ensure the implementation of the IOC decision on disqualification, which entered into force from the moment of publication.

On August 20, the IOC canceled all the results of the Russian runner Anastasia Kapachinskaya at the Beijing Olympics for the use of doping . The solution also applies to a relay race of 4x400 m, in which Kapachinskaya fled for the Russian team at one of the stages. Then the team took second place and received silver medals. The results of the race will be adjusted.

In the 2008 Olympics, prohibited substances were discovered. Positive results were also given the samples of the ten-collar of Alexander Pogorelov, who took fourth place in Beijing, and the pusher of the nucleus Ivan Yushkov (10th place).

Earlier, the IOC deprived the women's relay team of Russia of the 2008 Olympics gold medals in a 4x100 m race due tothe positive doping tests of Julia Cherkshanskaya.

In the spring and summer, the IOC held two waves of the recruitment of doping tests taken at the Olympic Games in Beijing and London. In total, 1243 samples were double -checking, 98 of which (60 Beijing and 38 London) turned out to be positive. Following the results of the test of the participants of Beijing 2008, the samples of 14 Russian athletes, 11 of which are athletes, showed a positive result.