Liliya Nurutdinova

Liliya Nurutdinova

Medal record
Women's athletics
Olympic Games
Competitor for the Unified Team
	1992 Barcelona	4x400 m relay
	1992 Barcelona	800 m
World Championships
Competitor for  Soviet Union
	1991 Tokyo	800 m

Liliya Foatovna Nurutdinova (Russian: Лилия Фоатовна Нурутдинова; born December 15, 1963) is a retired middle distance runner who represented the Soviet Union and the Unified Team.

Her greatest achievement was the 1992 Olympic silver medal when she ran the 800 m in 1:55.99 min. She was born in Naberezhnye Chelny, TASSR.

Doping ban

At the 1993 World Championships in Athletics Nurutdinova tested positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol, and she was subsequently disqualified and handed a 4-year ban from sport.^[1][2][3]

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Soviet Union
1990	Goodwill Games	Seattle, United States	2nd	800 m	1:57.52
	European Championships	Split, Yugoslavia	3rd	800 m
1991	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	1st	800 m
Representing  Unified Team
1992	Olympic Games	Barcelona, Spain	2nd	800 m
			1st	4 × 400 m relay
Representing  Russia
1993	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	DQ (7th)	800 m	Doping

References

1. Phil Hersh: Dopers, Ex-dopers And `Hmmm' Take Spotlight, Chicago Tribune, 22 August 1993
2. Liliya Nurutdinova, Sports-Reference.com
3. Butler, Mark (2015). "Doping violations at IAAF World Championships". IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 Statistics Handbook. Monaco: IAAF. pp. 75–78.

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