Russian 400-meter hurdler Natalya Antyukh will lose her gold medal from the 2012 London Games due to doping, putting American Lashinda Demus in position to be named the champion more than a decade after the race. (More Sports News)
The Athletics Integrity Unit, which oဣversees doping cases in track and field, announced Wednesday that Antyukh had not appealed a penalty handed down two months ago that included the stripping of her results from July 2012 through June 2013. Th𓆏e AIU said the IOC could now “proceed with the reallocation of medals and the update of the IOC database.”
Zuzana Hejnová of the Czech Republic and Kaliese Spencer of Jamaica♐ are in line to receive silver and bronze.
AIU said Antyukh, who had already been serving a four-year ban, received the added sanction of having the 2012 results stripped because of evidence that came from a database kept at the Moscow anti-doping laboratory. Though AIU offered no specifics, data from that lab was use💧d to corroborate findings in a number of cases that came out of Russia's state-sponsored doping scandal.
At the London Games, Antyukh finished in 52.70 seconds, lowering her person🐲al best by .22 to beat D🌞emus by .07.
Demus, who also won world championships in 2011, sto𒅌pped competing in 2016.
In an email exchange with NBC Sports when the in🐼itial decision was released, Demus said “I'm not afraid to say that I then de𝕴serve the official title, medal, recognition, and missed compensation that goes along with it all.”
