Mariya Sergeyevna Savinova (russian: Мария Сергеевна Савинова; born 13 August 1985) is a Russian former
athlete who specialized in the
800-metres 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
Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk ( rus, Челя́бинск, p=tɕɪˈlʲæbʲɪnsk, a=Ru-Chelyabinsk.ogg; ba, Силәбе, ''Siläbe'') is the administrative center and largest city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is the seventh-largest city in Russia, with a ...
. 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
Daegu, and the
2012
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Olympic Games
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in
London
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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, sold under the brand names Oxandrin and Anavar, among others, is an androgen and anabolic steroid (AAS) medication which is used to help promote weight gain in various situations, to help offset protein catabolism caused by long-ter ...
. 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
Court of Arbitration for Sports
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(CAS) in 2017.”
Not long after, in November 2015, Savinova was one of five Russian runners the
World Anti-Doping Agency
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(WADA) recommended to receive a lifetime ban for
doping during the London Olympics, along with
Ekaterina Poistogova
Ekaterina Guliyeva (née Zavyalova, divorced Poistogova; born 1 March 1991) is a Russian-born track and field athlete who specializes in the 800 metres and competes for Turkey.
Career
In the 800 meters event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Guliyeva ...
.
On 10 February 2017, the
Court of Arbitration for Sport
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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, nullified her results from July 2010 to August 2013, and stripped her of the medals she was awarded during that time, including prize money and appearance fees.
International competitions
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