Russian sprint athlete (born 1982)
Tatyana Firova
Born (1982-10-10 ) October 10, 1982 (age 42) Sarov , Russian SFSR, Soviet UnionHeight 1.74 m (5 ft 8+ 1 ⁄2 in) Weight 59 kg (130 lb) Country Russia Sport Athletics Event 4 × 400 m relay
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]
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1983 : Kerstin Walther , Sabine Busch , Marita Koch , Dagmar Rübsam , Undine Bremer , Ellen Fiedler (GDR)
1987 : Dagmar Neubauer , Kirsten Emmelmann , Petra Müller , Sabine Busch , Cornelia Ullrich (GDR)
1991 : Tatyana Ledovskaya , Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova , Olga Nazarova , Olha Bryzhina , Anna Chuprina (URS)
1993 : Gwen Torrence , Maicel Malone-Wallace , Natasha Kaiser , Jearl Miles , Terri Dendy , Michelle Collins (USA)
1995 : Kim Graham , Rochelle Stevens , Camara Jones , Jearl Miles , Nicole Green (USA)
1997 : Anke Feller , Uta Rohländer , Anja Rücker , Grit Breuer (GER)
1999 : Tatyana Chebykina , Svetlana Goncharenko , Olga Kotlyarova , Natalya Nazarova , Natalya Sharova , Yekaterina Bakhvalova (RUS)
2001 : Sandie Richards , Catherine Scott-Pomales , Debbie-Ann Parris , Lorraine Fenton , Michelle Burgher , Deon Hemmings (JAM)
2003 : Demetria Washington , Jearl Miles Clark , Me'Lisa Barber , Sanya Richards , DeeDee Trotter (USA)
2005 : Yuliya Pechonkina , Olesya Krasnomovets , Natalya Antyukh , Svetlana Pospelova , Tatyana Firova , Olesya Zykina (RUS)
2007 : DeeDee Trotter , Allyson Felix , Mary Wineberg , Sanya Richards , Monique Hennagan , Natasha Hastings (USA)
2009 : Debbie Dunn , Allyson Felix , Lashinda Demus , Sanya Richards , Natasha Hastings , Jessica Beard (USA)
2011 : Sanya Richards-Ross , Allyson Felix , Jessica Beard , Francena McCorory , Natasha Hastings , Keshia Baker (USA)
2013 : Jessica Beard , Natasha Hastings , Ashley Spencer , Francena McCorory , Joanna Atkins (USA)
2015 : Christine Day , Shericka Jackson , Stephenie Ann McPherson , Novlene Williams-Mills , Anastasia Le-Roy , Chrisann Gordon (JAM)
2017 : Quanera Hayes , Allyson Felix , Shakima Wimbley , Phyllis Francis , Kendall Ellis , Natasha Hastings (USA)
2019 : Phyllis Francis , Sydney McLaughlin , Dalilah Muhammad , Wadeline Jonathas , Jessica Beard , Allyson Felix , Kendall Ellis , Courtney Okolo (USA)
2022 : Talitha Diggs , Abby Steiner , Britton Wilson , Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone , Kaylin Whitney , Allyson Felix , Jaide Stepter Baynes (USA)
2023 : Eveline Saalberg , Lieke Klaver , Cathelijn Peeters , Femke Bol , Lisanne de Witte (NED)
1981 : Soviet Union (Ambrazienė , Baskakova , Alyoshina , Nazarova )
1983 : Soviet Union (Krylova , Borisova , Didilenko , Pinigina )
1985 : Soviet Union (Navickaitė , Zvyagintseva , Korban , Alekseyeva )
1987 : United States (Fridy , Mitchell , Stevens , Howard )
1989 : United States (Mondie , Kaiser , Miles , Dendy )
1991 : United States (Demas , Downing , Teri Smith , Malone )
1993 : United States (Irving , Malone , Warren , Collins )
1995 : Russia (Sotnikova , Khrushcheleva , Andreyeva , Chebykina )
1997 : Russia (Sharova , Goncharenko , Bakhvalova , Kotlyarova )
1999 : United States (Brown-Moore , Nelson , Barber , Reid )
2001 : United States (Barber , Carolyn Jackson , Washington , Barber )
2003 : Russia (Kondratyeva , Firova , Lavshuk , Lisnichenko )
2005 : Russia (Ovchinnikova , Migunova , Kostetskaya , Nazarova )
2007 : Ukraine (Pyhyda , Yefremova , Zavhorodnya , Shcherbak )
2009 : Canada (Muir , Nelson , Hyacinthe , Akinsulie )
2011 : Russia (Karnaushchenko , Migunova , Ustalova , Topilskaya )
2013 : Russia (Tamkova , Kotlyarova , Renzhina , Ustalova )
2015 : Poland (Hołub , Szczęsna , Linkiewicz , Święty )
2017 : Poland (Hołub , Baumgart , Wyciszkiewicz , Święty , Gaworska * , Dąbrowska *)
2019 : Ukraine (Mykolenko , Holienieva , Klymiuk , Melnyk )
2021 : Poland (Bartnowska , Łozowska , Koczanowa , Formella , Wosztyl *, Granaszewska *)
1997 : Great Britain (Jamison , Sloane , Mitchell , Curbishley )
1999 : Russia (Levina , Yemelyanova , Grishakova , Pospelova )
2001 : Great Britain (Gear , Meadows , Duncan , Thieme )
2003 : Russia (Gushchina , Ivanova , Gulumyan , Firova )
2005 : Russia (Ovchinnikova , Kochetova , Migunova , Zaytseva )
2007 : Russia (Shulikova , Zadorina , Novikova , Litvinova )
2009 : Russia (Sedova , Zadorina , Vdovina , Ustalova , Mochalina † )
2011 : Russia (Subbotina , Yefimova , Terekhova , Topilskaya )
2013 : Poland (Gorzkowska , Hołub , Karczmarczyk , Święty )
2015 : Great Britain (Bundy-Davies , Clark , Ohuruogu , McAslan )
2017 : Poland (Muraszewska , Janowicz , Karaś , Gaworska )
2019 : Poland (Łozowska , Wosztyl , Widawska , Kaczmarek )
2021 : Czech Republic (Vondrová , Jíchová , Veselá , Malíková , Holubářová † )
2023 : France (Thery-Demarque , Delaunay-Belleville , Toriel , Maraval , Lasserre † )
† denotes athletes who took part in heats only