Drugs Cheats

These are the DRUGS CHEATS that took a banned substance, and dared to even compete in the World Championships despite their dirty habit. Many of those athletes had World Championship medals stripped from them for these offences.

Valeriy Borchin
Disgraced Russian race walker, he was disqualified for 8 years starting from 15 October 2012, and all his results between 14 July 2009 and 15 September 2009, between 16 June 2011 and 27 September 2011 as well as between 11 April 2012 and 3 September 2012 (which include two world championship golds) were annulled. He was stripped of the 2011 World Championship in 20 kilometres walk, and the medal went to Luis Fernando López.

On 25 March 2015 the IAAF filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration in Lausanne, Switzerland, questioning the selective disqualification of the suspension periods of the six athletes involved including Borchin.[13] On March 24, 2015, the court rules all of his marks from August 14, 2009 to October 15, 2012 were also disqualified.

Tatyana Chernova
Disgraced Russian heptathlete, who was 2011 World Champion in Heptathlon and Olympic Games bronze medalist in the same event. However, after retesting of samples from the 2009 World Championships Chernova was found to have been doping.

In November 2016, Chernova was stripped of her World Championship title and then her Olympic bronze. The medals went respectively to Jessica Ennis-Hill and Austra Skujytė, meaning that the former became a three-time heptathlon world champion.

Andrei Mikhnevich
BANNED FOR LIFE

Disgraced Belarusian shot putter, who was banned for life in 2012 after re-offending, and was also stripped of many of his major championship medals, including the 2008 Olympic bronze medal which went to Dylan Armstrong. He also had world championship bronze medals in 2007 and 2011 taken away (those medals went respectively to Christian Cantwell and Rutger Smith).

In 2012 IAAF retested doping samples from the 2005 World Athletics Championships and Mikhnevich was found positive for 3 anabolic steroids: Clenbuterol, Methandienone and Oxandrolone.

Mariya Savinova
BANNED FOR 4 YEARS

Disgraced Russian runner, who in 2017 was found guilty of doping, was suspended from competition for four years, and had three years of results nullified. She was stripped of the 2011 World Championship in the 800 metres and the silver medal achieved in the following championships (those medals are likely to be reallocated to Caster Semenya and Brenda Martinez)