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Gulfiya Raifovna Khanafeyeva (russian: Гульфия Раифовна Ханафеева, tt-Cyrl, Гөлфия Рәиф кызы Хәнәфиева, translit=Gɵlfiə Rəif qızı Xənəfieva, born on 12 June 1982) is a Russian
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ethnicity. Her international breakthrough came following her
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breaking throw of 77.26 metres from 12 June 2006 in
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. She beat fellow Russian
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, however Lysenko threw 77.41 metres on 24 June in Zhukovsky to regain the world record. Later in 2006 Khanafeyeva won a silver medal with 74.50 metres at the 2006 European Championships, her first international medal. In 2007 Khanafeyeva improved to 77.36 m. She participated in the
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in London but did not qualify for the finals.


Doping

In 2002 IAAF announced that Khanafeyeva had tested positive at the Russian Championships and that she had received a 3-month doping ban. On 31 July 2008, Khanafeyeva was one of seven female Russian athletes suspended by the
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, due to doping test irregularities. On 20 October 2008, it was announced that Khanafeyeva, along with 6 other Russian athletes would receive two-year doping bans for manipulating drug samples. On 30 March 2017, she was disqualified, and her 2012 Olympics results were annulled, after her second probe came positive for banned substances. In February 2019, the
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handed her an eight-year ban for doping, starting from 6 January 2017.


International competitions


See also

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Doping at the Olympic Games This article is about the history of competitors at the Olympic Games using banned ergogenic aid, athletic performance-enhancing drugs. History The use of performance-enhancing tactics or more formally known as PEDs, and more broadly, the use ...
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List of European Athletics Championships medalists (women) This is a complete list of women's medalists of the European Athletics Championships. Track 100 metres 200 metres 400 metres 800 metres 1500 metres 5000 metres 10,000 metres 100 metres hurdles 400 metres hurdle ...
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Russia at the World Athletics Championships Russia competed at every edition of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics 1993 to the 2017 World Championships, from which its athletes have been banned from competing as Russian. In order for Russian nationals to compete at the World Athle ...
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Khanafeyeva, Gulfiya 1982 births Living people Russian female hammer throwers Olympic female hammer throwers Olympic athletes for Russia Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade silver medalists for Russia Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade European Athletics Championships medalists Russian Athletics Championships winners World record setters in athletics (track and field) Russian sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in athletics Tatar people of Russia