Name Tatyana Tomashova Siblings Olga Tomashova Weight 52 kg | Height 1.65 m Role Track and field athlete | |
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Olympic medals Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres Similar People Olga Yegorova, Kelly Holmes, Maria Cioncan, Bouchra Ghezielle, Hayley Tullett | ||
Tatyana tomashova
Tatyana Ivanovna Tomashova (Russian: Татьяна Ивановна Томашова) (born 1 July 1975 in Perm) is a Russian middle distance runner. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she competed in 5000 metres, but she has participated in shorter races since, now competing mainly in the 1500 metres. She is a double world champion in this event and won an Olympic silver medal in 2004.
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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.
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.
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