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Mariya Sergeyevna Savinova (; born 13 August 1985) is a Russian former
athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track ...
who specialized in the
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event. In 2017, she was found guilty of doping and was subsequently suspended from competition for four years. In addition to the ban, she had three years of elite results nullified and was stripped of both her World Championship medals (2011 and 2013) and her 2012 Olympic gold medal.


Career

Savinova was born in
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. In 2009, she became the European indoor champion in the 800-metres and the World indoor champion (also in the 800 m) one year later. She originally was awarded gold medals at the 2011 World Championships in
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, and the
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in
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. In 2013, she captured silver in the 800-metres in the World Championships in Moscow.


Doping suspension

In December 2014, in an undercover documentary filmed by a Russian whistleblower which aired on German TV, Savinova admitted to injecting testosterone and using the anabolic steroid
oxandrolone Oxandrolone is an androgen and synthetic anabolic steroid (AAS) medication to help promote weight gain in various situations, to help offset protein catabolism caused by long-term corticosteroid therapy, to support recovery from severe burns, t ...
. She said, "Oxandrolone is very quickly out of my body again. It takes less than 20 days. We have tested that. My husband has very good contacts at the doping control laboratory."Payne, Marissa
"Russian runner who admitted on video to doping is stripped of Olympic gold"
washingtonpost.com. 10 February 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2017. The footage led to Savinova's blood samples being re-examined and launched an investigation by the World Anti-Doping Agency into Russia. In August 2015, the IAAF charged her with doping violations. The case was referred to the
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(CAS) in 2017.” Not long after, in November 2015, Savinova was one of five Russian runners the
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(WADA) recommended to receive a lifetime ban for doping during the London Olympics, along with Ekaterina Poistogova. On 10 February 2017, the Court of Arbitration for Sport issued a 43-page opinion which noted that, “It follows from the information and intelligence provided by Ms. Yuliya Stepanova (Savinova's teammate) that the Athlete avinovaused prohibited substances over a long period of time." The CAS upheld the four-year ban for Savinova, disqualified her results from July 2010 to August 2013, and forfeited her of the medals she was awarded during that time, including prize money and appearance fees.


International competitions


See also

* List of doping cases in athletics *
List of Olympic medalists in athletics (women) This is the complete list of women's Olympic medalists in athletics. Women's events 100 metres 200 metres 400 metres 800 metres 1500 metres 5000 metres 10,000 metres Marathon 100 metres hurdles 400 metres hurdles 3000 me ...
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List of stripped Olympic medals The following is a list of stripped Olympic medals. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the governing body of the Olympic Games, and as such, can rule athletes to have violated regulations of the Games, for which athletes' Olympic medals ...
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800 metres at the Olympics The 800 metres at the Summer Olympics has been contested since the first edition of the multi-sport event. The men's 800 m has been present on the Athletics at the Summer Olympics, Olympic athletics programme since 1896 Summer Olympics, 1896. ...
* 800 metres at the World Championships in Athletics *
Russia at the World Athletics Championships Russia competed at every edition of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics 1993 to the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, 2017 World Championships, from which its athletes have been banned from competing as Russian. In order for Russian na ...
* Doping at the World Athletics Championships *
List of IAAF World Indoor Championships medalists (women) This is the complete list of women's medalists at the IAAF World Indoor Championships. Current program 60 metres 400 metres 800 metres 1500 metres 3000 metres 60 metres hurdles 4 × 400 metres relay High jump Pole vault ...
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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 R ...
* List of European Athletics Indoor Championships medalists (women) *
List of Russian sportspeople This is a list of notable sportspeople from the Russian Federation, Soviet Union, Russian Empire, and other Russian predecessor states, including ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities. This list also includes those who were born in Russia ...
* List of people from Chelyabinsk


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