Ms. Nadezda Evstyukhina is a Russian Athlete competing in the 75 kg weightlifting event at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
In 2016, the IOC decided to perform further analyses on certain samples collected during the 2012 Olympic Games. These additional analyses were performed with analytical methods which were not available in 2012.
In May 2016 the International Olympic Committee reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Athlete after her 2008 A and B samples tested positive for the prohibited substances dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol) and Erythropoietin (EPO). After notification the Athlete and the Russian Olympic Committee failed to respond.
With the positive test results the IOC Disciplinary Commission decides on 29 August 2016 that the Athlete Nadezda Evstyukhina:
1.) is found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to the IOC Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing in 2008 (presence and/or use, of a Prohibited Substance or its Metabolites or Markers in an athlete’s bodily specimen),
2.) is disqualified from the 75kg weightlifting event in which she participated upon the occasion of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008, and
3.) has the medal, the medallist pin and the diploma obtain in the 75kg weightlifting event withdrawn and is ordered to return the same.
4.) The IWF is requested to modify the results of the above-mentioned event accordingly and to consider any further action within its own competence.
5.) The Russian Olympic Committee shall ensure full implementation of this decision.
6.) The Russian Olympic Committee 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 75kg weightlifting event to the Athlete.
7.) This decision enters into force immediately.
