Kirdyapkin to lose 2012 Games gold
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RUSSIAN Sergey Kirdyapkin is set to be stripped of the 50-kilometer walk gold medal he won at the 2012 London Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld an appeal by the IAAF against the Russian anti-doping agency (RUSADA).
Two more Russian athletes are set to lose their London Games medals after the sport’s governing body, IAAF, appealed on six cases where it said RUSADA had been “selective” in annulling previous results of the athletes after they were banned for irregularities in their biological passports.
CAS upheld all six appeals, which included London 2012 3,000 meters steeplechase champion Yuliya Zaripova, former Olympic champions Valery Borchin and Olga Kaniskina, 2011 world champion Sergei Bakulin and world silver medalist Vladimir Kanaykin.
Kaniskina is also set to lose her silver medal from the 20km walk race in London after her results were disqualified from 2009 to October 2012 while Zaripova’s disqualification period also includes her London Games’ gold-winning race.
All six were issued bans ranging from two years to life by RUSADA.
But IAAF appealed to CAS over the punishments in March last year, saying it disagreed with the “selective” disqualification of results that allowed the athletes to keep titles.
Kirdyapkin’s competitive results between August 20, 2009, to October 15, 2012, were annulled, meaning his gold medal at the London Games would also be scrapped.
Australia’s Jared Tallent, silver medalist behind Kirdyapkin would receive the gold medal if upgraded by the International Olympic Committee.
China’s Si Tianfeng is set to move up to second with Ireland’s Robert Heffernan to be upgraded to bronze.
Russian athletics was banned from international competition in November following a report by the World Anti-Doping Agency which exposed systematic state-sponsored doping and related corruption.
The IAAF said earlier this month that Russia still had “significant work” to do for the ban to be lifted ahead of the Rio Olympics in August.
More positive drugs tests have emerged in recent weeks involving Russian wrestlers and swimmers.
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