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Tatyana Tomashova

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Tatyana Tomashova

Tatyana Tomashova at the 2012 Olympics
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Russia
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens 1500 m
Disqualified 2012 London 1500 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2003 Paris 1500 m
Gold medal – first place 2005 Helsinki 1500 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2006 Gothenburg 1500 m

Tatyana Ivanovna Tomashova (Russian: Татьяна Ивановна Томашова) (born 1 July 1975 in Perm) is a former Russian distance runner.

Career

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At the 2000 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 5000 metres but participated in shorter races thereafter, mainly in the 1500 metres. She is a double world champion and single Olympic silver medallist in this event.

On 31 July 2008, Tomashova was suspended by the IAAF, along with six other Russian track and field athletes, for doping offences. She was charged under IAAF rules 32.2 (b) and 32.2 (e) for a "fraudulent substitution of urine which is both a prohibited method and also a form of tampering with the doping control process". She was set to compete in the 2008 Summer Olympics.[1][2]

On 20 October 2008, it was announced that Tomashova, along with six other Russian athletes would receive two-year doping bans for manipulating drug samples.[3]

She initially came fourth in the 1500 meters at the 2012 Summer Olympics. However, after doping offences by other athletes, she was promoted to the silver medal position.[4] In September 2024, twelve years after the London Games, the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced that Tomashova herself had been stripped of her medal, and banned for ten years for further doping violations.[5][6]

Personal bests

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International competitions

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On 3 September 2024, CAS banned Tomashova for 10 years as a doping penalty. In addition, all results recorded in competitions from June 21, 2012 to January 3, 2015, including the silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics in the women's 1500 metres, were invalidated. This is not Tomashova's first suspension, as she was suspended in 2008 on suspicion of tampering with doping samples. Tomashova is a 2004 Olympic silver medalist in the 1,500 meters, as well as a two-time world champion (2003 and 2005) in this discipline.[7]

Representing  Russia
Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
1994 World Junior Championships Lisbon, Portugal 10,000m DNF
1999 European Cross Country Championships Velenje, Slovenia 5th Senior race 19:09
2002 European Championships Munich, Germany 3rd 1500 m 4:01.28
IAAF Grand Prix Final Paris, France 2nd 3000 m 8:56.34
World Cup Madrid, Spain 2nd 1500 m 4:09.74
2003 World Championships Paris, France 1st 1500 m 3:58.52
2004 Summer Olympics Athens, Greece 2nd 1500 m 3:58.12 PB
World Athletics Final Monte Carlo, Monaco 2nd 1500 m 4:05.18
2005 World Championships Helsinki, Finland 1st 1500 m 4:00.35
World Athletics Final Monte Carlo, Monaco 2nd 1500 m 4:00.28
2006 European Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 1st 1500 m 3:56.91
2012 Summer Olympics London, United Kingdom DSQ 1500 m 4:10.48
2015 World Championships Beijing, China 10th 1500 m 4:13.66

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "IAAF provisionally suspend Russians". Metro.co.uk. Associated Newspapers. 31 July 2008. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
  2. ^ "Russia hit by doping suspensions". BBC Sport. BBC. 31 July 2008. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
  3. ^ "Seven Russians handed doping bans". BBC Sport. BBC. 20 October 2008. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
  4. ^ Morgan, Liam (30 August 2018). "Convicted dopers Poistogova and Tomashova to receive upgraded London 2012 Olympic silver medals". Inside the Games. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  5. ^ 10 year ban for Tomashova from Reuters.com
  6. ^ "Runner in 2012 'dirtiest race' gets 10-year ban". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  7. ^ "Russia's Tomashova gets 10-year ban for 2012 doping violation". Reuters. 3 September 2024. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
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