The protection of clean athletes and the fight against doping are top priorities for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), as outlined in Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement. To provide a level playing field for all clean athletes at the Olympic Games Rio 2016, the IOC put special measures in place, including targeted pre-tests and the re-analysis of stored samples from the Olympic Games Beijing 2008 and London 2012, following an intelligence-gathering process that started in August 2015.

As part of this process, the IOC today announced that eight athletes have been disqualified from the Olympic Games London 2012. The details follow.

Zulfiya CHINSHANLO, 23, of Kazakhstan, competing in the women’s 53kg weightlifting event in which she ranked 1st and for which she was awarded the gold medal, has been disqualified from the Olympic Games London 2012. Re-analysis of Chinshanlo’s samples from London 2012 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substances oxandrolone and stanozolol.

The IOC Disciplinary Commission, composed for this case of  Denis Oswald (Chairman), Gunilla Lindberg and Ugur Erdener, decided the following:

The Athlete, Zulfiya Chinshanlo is found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to the IOC Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London in 2012 (presence and/or use of Prohibited Substances or its Metabolites or Markers in an athlete’s bodily specimen), is disqualified from the event in which she participated upon the occasion of the Olympic Games London 2012, namely the women’s 53kg weightlifting event, in which she ranked 1st and for which she was awarded the gold medal,has the medal, the medallist pin and the diploma obtained in the women’s 53kg weightlifting event withdrawn and is ordered to return the same.

The IWF is requested to modify the results of the above-mentioned event accordingly and to consider any further action within its own competence.

The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall ensure full implementation of this decision.

The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan shall notably secure the return to the IOC, as soon as possible, of the medal, the medallist pin and the diploma awarded in connection with the women’s 53kg weightlifting event to the Athlete.

This decision enters into force immediately.