Nailiya Yulamanova by Augustas Didzgalvis

Nailiya Yulamanova (russian: Наиля Гайнуловна Юламанова; born 6 September 1980) is a Russian long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon. She won the Saransk Marathon in 2006 and went on to finish twelfth at the 2006 European Championships and 32nd at the 2007 World Championships. Yulamanova won the

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in 2007 and 2008, the

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in 2008 and the

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in 2009. She competed in the women's marathon at the

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and finished eighth overall, the second best European finisher after

Marisa Barros Elsa Marisa Branco Barros (born 25 February 1980), known as Marisa Barros, is a Portuguese long-distance runner who specialises in marathon running. Her personal best for the distance is 2:25:04 hours. She ran for her country at the Summer ...

of Portugal. She placed ninth at the 2010 Boston Marathon, but went on to finish in second position behind Lithuania's

Živilė Balčiūnaitė Živilė Balčiūnaitė (born 3 April 1979 in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian long-distance runner. Balčiūnaitė finished 4th at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. She also competed in the same event at the 2004 Olympics, finish ...

in the women's marathon at the

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, which led Russia to the title of the European Marathon Cup. Yulamanova was subsequently awarded the gold medal after Balčiūnaitė was disqualified for a doping offence. She won the Shanghai Marathon in December in a new personal best of 2:26:05. Initially set for the 2011 Berlin Marathon, she instead chose the

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and came fifth with a time of 2:26:39 hours. She was given a two-year ban from competition, lasting from 10 February 2012 to 2014. Abnormalities in her

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showed proof that she had committed doping offences. Her results were annulled from 20 August 2009 until the date of the ban. This period included her European marathon title win and her personal best-setting run in Shanghai.Disqualification
RusAthletics (4 June 2012). Retrieved 7 July 2012.

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