Tatyana Firova
 Firova behind Debbie Dunn during the 2010 World Indoor Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | October 10, 1982 Sarov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 4 × 400 m relay | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tatyana Pavlovna Firova (Russian: Татьяна Павловна Фирова; born October 10, 1982) is a Russian former sprint athlete. She was awarded the silver medal in the 4 × 400 m relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
In 2016, it was announced that a reanalysis of samples from the 2008 Summer Olympics resulted in a doping violation by Firova. She was disqualified from the competition, and she and her teammates were stripped of their 4 × 400 m relay silver medals.[1] She claimed that using banned substances was necessary for achieving good results: "A normal person can take banned substances if they want to. So why can't athletes take them as well? How else can we achieve high results?"[2] Although offending athletes are required to return their stripped medals to the IOC, Firova refused to return her medals.[3]
In February 2019, the Court of Arbitration for Sport handed her a four-year ban for doping, starting from 9 June 2016, and all of her results from 20 August 2008 to 31 December 2012 were disqualified.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "IOC sanctions six athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008". olympic.org. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
- ^ "Russia doping scandal: Tatyana Firova suggests athletes should be able to take banned substances". independent.co.uk. 8 June 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ^ Russian dopers ordered to return Olympic medals, some say no, Reuters, 11 August 2017, retrieved 22 October 2020
- ^ "Doping bans for 12 Russian athletes including 2012 Olympic champion Ivan Ukhov". BBC Sport. February 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
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World University Games champions in women's 400 metres | |
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European Athletics U23 Championships champions in women's 4 × 400 metres relay | |
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† denotes athletes who took part in heats only |
- 1982 births
- Living people
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals
- Doping cases in athletics
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Russia
- Olympic silver medalists for Russia
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- People from Sarov
- Russian female sprinters
- Russian sportspeople in doping cases
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Russia
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- World Athletics Championships winners
- Olympic female sprinters
- Sportspeople from Nizhny Novgorod Oblast