Liliya Nurutdinova

Liliya Nurutdinova
Medal record
Women's athletics
Olympic Games
Competitor for the Unified Team
1992 Barcelona 4x400 m relay
1992 Barcelona 800 m
World Championships
Competitor for  Soviet Union
1991 Tokyo 800 m

Liliya Foatovna Nurutdinova (Russian: Лилия Фоатовна Нурутдинова; born December 15, 1963) is a retired middle distance runner who represented the Soviet Union and the Unified Team.

Her greatest achievement was the 1992 Olympic silver medal when she ran the 800 m in 1:55.99 min. She was born in Naberezhnye Chelny, TASSR.

Doping ban

At the 1993 World Championships in Athletics Nurutdinova tested positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol, and she was subsequently disqualified and handed a 4-year ban from sport.[1][2][3]

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Soviet Union
1990 Goodwill Games Seattle, United States 2nd 800 m 1:57.52
European Championships Split, Yugoslavia 3rd 800 m
1991 World Championships Tokyo, Japan 1st 800 m
Representing  Unified Team
1992 Olympic Games Barcelona, Spain 2nd 800 m
1st 4x400 m relay
Representing  Russia
1993 World Championships Stuttgart, Germany DQ (7th) 800 m Doping

References

  1. ↑ Phil Hersh: Dopers, Ex-dopers And `Hmmm' Take Spotlight, Chicago Tribune, 22 August 1993
  2. ↑ Liliya Nurutdinova, Sports-Reference.com
  3. ↑ Butler, Mark (2015). "Doping violations at IAAF World Championships". IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 Statistics Handbook. Monaco: IAAF. pp. 75–78.

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