Olga Nikolayevna Yegorova (russian: Ольга Николаевна Егорова; born 28 March 1972 in Novocheboksarsk,

Chuvash ASSR The Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( cv, Чӑваш Автономлӑ Совет Социаллӑ Республики, Chăwash Avtonomlă Sovet Sociallă Respubliki; russian: link=no, Чувашская Автономная Со ...

) is a Russian distance runner. Her first international appearance came at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, where she finished 9th in the 1500m won by future world record holder Qu Yunxia. At the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...

she competed in 5000 metres, and she is a double world champion in this event, but like countryfellow Tatyana Tomashova she has concentrated on shorter races since, now competing mainly in the

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athle ...

. In this event she finished 11th at the 2004 Summer Olympics and second at the 2005 World Championships. In 2001, she shared the $1 million jackpot of the

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and in the same year tested positive for EPO which drew protests from her fellow competitors after she was allowed to compete in the

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. Although her urine sample tested positive for EPO, the French authorities failed to take an accompanying blood test and she avoided a suspension on a technicality. Yegorova was one of seven Russian athletes to be suspended for doping offences ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. On 20 October 2008, it was announced that Yegorova, along with 6 other Russian athletes, would receive two-year doping bans for manipulating drug samples.Seven Russians handed doping bans
''BBC Sport''. 20 October 2008.

International competitions

Personal bests

- 3:59.47 (2005) *

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- 4:20.10 (2007) * 3000 metres - 8:23.26 (2001) * 5000 metres - 14:29.32 (2001)

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* 1972 births Living people People from Novocheboksarsk Sportspeople from Chuvashia Russian female middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for Russia Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Goodwill Games medalists in athletics Competitors at the 1998 Goodwill Games Competitors at the 2001 Goodwill Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia World Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Championships winners World Athletics Indoor Championships winners IAAF Continental Cup winners Russian Athletics Championships winners IAAF Golden League winners Doping cases in athletics Russian sportspeople in doping cases Goodwill Games gold medalists in athletics 20th-century Russian women 21st-century Russian women {{Russia-athletics-bio-stub

International competitions

Personal bests

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