Tatyana Viktorovna Lysenko (russian: Татьяна Викторовна Лысенко, born 9 October 1983 in

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) is a Russian

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er. Her career has been blighted by repeated doping infractions. In February 2019, the

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handed her an eight-year ban for doping, starting from 2 July 2016.

Career

Lysenko's first world record was 77.06 metres, achieved on 15 July 2005 in

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, beating the old record of

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by 0.99 metres. On 12 June 2006 she lost the record to Gulfiya Khanafeyeva, who threw 77.26 metres at the Russian athletics championships in

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. However, Lysenko threw 77.41 metres on June 24 in Zhukovsky and 77.80 metres in Tallinn,

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on August 15. On 21 July 2007 it was reported that she failed a

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, testing positive for a women's hormone blocker. In 2008, she was found guilty of using 6α-methylandrostendione and received a two-year ban (15.07.07 – 14.07.09) and disqualification of all results from 9 May 2007, including her world record of 78.61 m set on 26 May 2007. Lysenko returned to competition in July 2009, taking the Russian title with 76.41 m. She won the gold at the

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and ranked third in the inaugural

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at the end of the year, with a combined score of 223.96 metres for her three best throws. In 2011, she won her first

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in the first world championships where the top three women all went over 75 m. She was awarded the

gold medal at the

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with a throw of 78.18 m. She won the 2013 World Championships with a world leading throw of 78.80 m. In May 2016

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reported that a retest of Lysenko's samples from the 2012 Summer Olympics had tested positive for doping products, her third failure. If confirmed in the B sample, she stood to lose her Olympic and second World titles and faced a lifetime ban from the sport. In October, she was stripped of her Olympic gold medal."Russian hammer thrower Tatyana Lysenko stripped of Olympic gold"
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Career

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