Yulia Igorewna Stepanova
Yuliya Rusanova ( Russian Юлия Игоревна Степанова ., English transcription Yuliya Stepanova, born Rusanova - Русанова - Rusanova; * 3. July 1986 ) is a Russian middle distance runner , referring to the 800-meter distance specializes.
In 2011 she was third at the 2011 European Indoor Championships in Paris and eighth at the World Championships in Daegu . At the World Indoor Championships in 2012 in Istanbul, she was sixth. In 2013, due to abnormalities in her biological passport, this and all other placements since March 3, 2011 were revoked and a two-year ban was imposed on her.
She is married to Vitaly Stepanov, a former employee of the Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA . Both reported in 2014 in the ARD documentary Secret Matter Doping - How Russia makes its winners by Hajo Seppelt in detail about systematic doping in Russian sport.
According to the doping reports, the couple left Russia and are said to be in the United States . After the suspension of the All-Russia Athletics Federation ( ARAF ) by the World Athletics Federation (IAAF) , the IAAF advocated Julija Stepanova starting at the 2016 Summer Olympics under a neutral flag. Stepanova was allowed to start at the European Athletics Championships . However, the IOC refused Stepanowa's active participation in the Olympic Games on July 24, 2016, referring to the doping that she had been practicing for years, and only invited her to Rio as a guest.
Stepanova was awarded the Anti-Doping Prize of the Doping Victims Aid in 2016.
Personal bests
- 800 m: 1: 58.99 min, July 23, 2009, Cheboksary
- Hall: 1: 58.14 min, February 17, 2011, Moscow
- 1000 m : 2: 39.81 min, September 6, 2009, Dubnica nad Váhom
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1500 m : 4: 06.08 min, June 26, 2009, Bryansk
- Hall: 4: 16.08 min, February 9, 2008, Moscow
Web links
- Iuliia Stepanova in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Doping key witness Stepanova: "Dopers can be marketed better" , Interview with Michael Reinsch in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 17, 2014
Footnotes
- ↑ Russanowa and Lemajew banned for two years ( Memento from August 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: Handelsblatt . February 26, 2013
- ↑ WDR press lounge: Doping, a secret matter - How Russia makes its winners . 3rd December 2014
- ↑ ARD documentary exposes Russia's sports system . In: Leichtathletik.de. 3rd December 2014
- ^ Spiegel Online: IAAF promises Julija Stepanova a comeback June 23, 2016
- ↑ Jens Weinreich : IAAF decision: A holiday for sport. Spiegel Online , June 17, 2016
- ↑ Christoph Zöpfl: Julia Stepanowa: The defector. OÖN , July 8, 2016, accessed on July 12, 2016.
- ↑ Summer Games in Rio: Whistleblower Stepanova is not allowed to start , Spiegel Online, July 24, 2016, accessed on July 24, 2016
- ↑ Stepanowa receives anti-doping prize from the victims' aid , Augsburger Allgemeine, July 19, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stepanova, Julija Igorewna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Степанова, Юлия Игоревна (Russian); Stepanova, Yuliya (English transcription); Русанова, Юлия Игоревна (Russian); Russanowa, Julija; Rusanova, Yuliya |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian middle-distance runner and whistleblower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd July 1986 |