Yuliya Chermoshanskaya
Appearance
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Medal record
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Yuliya Igorevna Chermoshanskaya (Russian: Юлия Игоревна Чермошанская; born 6 January 1986 in
4x100 metres relay. She is the daughter of former sprinter Galina Malchugina.[1]
Career
Chermoshanskaya represented Russia at the
Yulia Gushchina and Yevgeniya Polyakova. In their first round heat they placed second behind Jamaica. Their time of 42.87 seconds was also the second time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result they qualified for the final in which they sprinted to 42.31 seconds, the first place and the gold medal. Belgium and Nigeria took the other medals.[1]
Chermoshanskaya participated in the
Yelizaveta Bryzhina. She then went into the final as the overall, fifth fastest athlete. In the final, she ran a seasonal best of 22.67 which finished her in seventh place, and last of the actual race finishes as Véronique Mang
was disqualified for a false start.
Doping case
In May 2016, it was reported that Chermoshanskya was one of 14 Russian athletes, and nine medalists, implicated in doping following the retesting of urine from the
TASS as having failed the retest, which was undertaken following the Russian doping scandal of 2015 and 2016. Under IOC and IAAF rules, Chermonshanskya stood to lose all results, medals and records from the date of the original test to May 2016.[2] In August 2016, she and her three Russian teammates were stripped of their Olympic gold medal.[3][4]
In May 2017, she was disqualified for two years.[5]
References
- ^ a b Athlete biography: Yuliya Chermoshanskaya, beijing2008.cn, ret: 27 August 2008
- ^ Russia could lose Beijing medals after retests.
- ^ Payne, Marissa. "Russia stripped of 4×100 gold medal from 2008 Olympics because of doping". washingtonpost.com. 17 August 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- ^ IOC sanctions Yulia Chermoshanskaya for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008
- ^ "6 track athletes handed doping bans after Olympic retests". 31 May 2017.