The Russian Elena LashmanovaOlympic champion in 2012 and world champion in 2013 in the 20 km march, was sanctioned with a two-year suspension and stripped of her titles for the use of prohibited substances, announced Monday the Anti-Doping Agency Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).
In addition to the two-year ban from March 9, 2021, Lashmanova sees all of her results overturned between February 18, 2012 and January 3, 2014.
“Lashmanova has accepted the sanction proposed by the AIU”, specified the anti-doping agency in a message on Twitter.
The 29-year-old marcher had already been suspended for two years (from June 2014 to February 2016) after being tested positive for Enduborol in January 2014.
In 2019, Elena Lashmanova he won Sochi World Cupin Russia, and that victory allowed her to place first in the world ranking, in the adult category, escorted by the walker Ecuadorian Glenda Morejonwho on June 8 of that year, won the XXXIII edition of the Cantonese Marching Grand Prix, held in La Coruña, Spain.
The Ecuadorian put in 1 hour, 25 minutes and 29 seconds, and that mark smashed the record in the sub-20 category and in the world ranking, of the adult category that allowed him to position himself behind the Russian that in Sochi he had timed 1 hour, 24 minutes and 31 seconds. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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