Yana Sergeyevna Romanova (russian: Яна Сергеевна Романова; born 11 May 1983) is a retired Russian

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not time ...

. She competed in various events at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics and won a silver medal in the 4×6 km relay in 2014. Her medal was later annulled for doping violations.

Career

Romanova was awarded the

Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" The Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (russian: Медаль ордена «За заслуги перед Отечеством») was established on 2 March 1994 by Presidential Decree No.442. Its award criteria were modified on 6 ...

I class in 2014. In May 2015, she retired from competitions. In April 2016, she became a candidate to participate in the primaries of the "

United Russia United Russia ( rus, Единая Россия, Yedinaya Rossiya, (j)ɪˈdʲinəjə rɐˈsʲijə) is a Russian conservative political party. As the largest party in Russia, it holds 325 (or 72.22%) of the 450 seats in the State Duma , havin ...

" in the Omsk Oblast for the elections to the State Duma. In December 2016, the International Biathlon Union provisionally suspended her for doping violations during the 2014 Winter Olympics, along with

Olga Vilukhina Olga Gennadyevna Vilukhina (russian: Ольга Геннадьевна Вилухина; born 22 March 1988) is a former Russian biathlete, who was competing on the World Cup circuit since the 2008–09 season. Career She has had four Top 10 f ...

. On 27 November 2017, the

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disqualified Vilukhina and Romanova, banned them for life from the Olympics, and stripped them of their Olympic medals. On 24 September 2020, Romanova and Vilukhina was reinstated by CAS in the individual races.

References

External links

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Profile on biathlonworld.com

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1983 births Living people People from Kurgan, Kurgan Oblast Russian female biathletes Biathletes at the 2010 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic biathletes of Russia Recipients of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I class Doping cases in biathlon Russian sportspeople in doping cases Competitors stripped of Winter Olympics medals Sportspeople from Kurgan Oblast {{Russia-biathlon-bio-stub