Russian Olympic athletics champions Andrei Silnov and Natalya Antyukh occupy every been banned for four years for doping offences, the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport says.
Silnov and Antyukh were every charged closing year with the utilize of or attempting to make utilize of a prohibited substance or plan.
The prices stemmed from a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation into Russian doping in 2016.
Silnov obtained gold within the high leap on the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Antyukh obtained gold within the 400m hurdles on the 2012 London Games.
Antyukh additionally obtained bronze within the 400m run and silver within the 4x400m relay in 2004.
They’ll attend their Olympic medals.
Neither athlete has competed since 2016, however Silnov became once the senior vp of the Russian observe federation until June 2019, when he stepped down citing an investigation by the Athletics Integrity Unit into his behavior.
CAS did now not straight away suppose when the verdicts were handed down or give facts on the cases. They were printed on Wednesday in a brief summary of a giant sequence of cases and appeals relating 12 Russians.
Yelena Soboleva, who obtained a world indoor championship silver medal in 2006, became once banned for eight years and hammer thrower Oksana Kondratyeva, who became once disqualified from fifth put of living on the 2013 world championships, became once banned for four years.
CAS additionally reduced the scale of bans for four Russians, including high jumper Ivan Ukhov. His ban became once lower from four years to 2 years and nine months.
The ruling does no longer reverse an earlier resolution in a doping case to strip Ukhov of the 2012 Olympic high leap gold.
