Yuliya Igorevna Chermoshanskaya (russian: link=no, Юлия Игоревна Чермошанская; born 6 January 1986 in

Bryansk Bryansk ( rus, Брянск, p=brʲansk) is a city and the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia, situated on the River Desna, southwest of Moscow. Population: Geography Urban layout The location of the settlement was originally ass ...

Russian SFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

) is a Russian

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete. She competed at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

in the 4x100 metres relay. She is the daughter of former sprinter

Galina Malchugina Galina Vyacheslavovna Malchugina (russian: Галина Вячеславовна Мальчугина, born December 17, 1962 in Bryansk) is a retired sprinter from Russia. Competing for the Soviet (later Unified Team, later Russian) relay team, ...

.Athlete biography: Yuliya Chermoshanskaya
beijing2008.cn, ret: 27 August 2008

Career

Chermoshanskaya represented Russia at the

in Beijing, competing in the 4x100 metres relay with partners

Aleksandra Fedoriva Aleksandra Andreyevna Fedoriva (russian: Александра Андреевна Федорива) (born 13 September 1988 in Moscow) is a Russian track and field athlete who competes mainly in sprinting events. Fedoriva began her career as a h ...

, Yulia Gushchina and

Yevgeniya Polyakova Yevgeniya Andreyevna Polyakova (russian: link=no, Евгения Андреевна Полякова) (born 29 May 1983 in Moscow) is a Russian sprint (running), sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.

. In their first round heat they placed second behind Jamaica. Their time of 42.87 seconds was also the second time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result they qualified for the final in which they sprinted to 42.31 seconds, the first place and the gold medal. Belgium and Nigeria took the other medals. Chermoshanskaya participated in the

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in the 4 x 100 m relay and the

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. In the relay final, along with Yuna Mekhti-Zade,

and Yulia Gushchina, they finished fourth behind Ukraine, France and Poland. In the 200 metre competition, she won her heat in a time of 23.10 secs, which was good enough to advance. In her semifinal, she finished second in an improved time of 22.88, behind Ukrainian,

Yelizaveta Bryzhina Yelyzaveta Viktorivna Bryzhina ( uk, Єлизавета Вікторівна Бризгіна; born November 28, 1989 in Voroshilovgrad) is a Ukrainian sprint athlete, who specializes in the 100 metres. Her personal best times are 11.42 seconds ...

. She then went into the final as the overall, fifth fastest athlete. In the final, she ran a seasonal best of 22.67 which finished her in seventh place, and last of the actual race finishes as

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was disqualified for a false start.

Doping case

In May 2016, it was reported that Chermoshanskya was one of 14 Russian athletes, and nine medalists, implicated in doping following the retesting of urine from the

2008 Olympic Games The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

. Chermoshanskya was named by Russian press agency

TASS The Russian News Agency TASS (russian: Информацио́нное аге́нтство Росси́и ТАСС, translit=Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii, or Information agency of Russia), abbreviated TASS (russian: ТАСС, label=none) ...

as having failed the retest, which was undertaken following the

Russian doping scandal Systematic Doping in sport, doping of Sport in Russia, Russian athletes has resulted in 48 Olympic medals stripped from Russia (and Russian associated teams), four times the number of the next highest, and more than 30% of the global total. Russi ...

of 2015 and 2016. Under IOC and IAAF rules, Chermonshanskya stood to lose all results, medals and records from the date of the original test to May 2016. In August 2016, she and her three Russian teammates were stripped of their Olympic gold medal. In May 2017, she was disqualified for two years.

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