Olha Zemlyak

Olha Zemlyak (Ukrainian: Ольга Миколаївна Земляк; born 16 January 1990) is a Ukrainian athlete who competes in the sprint with a personal best time of 50.75 seconds at the 400 metres event.

Olha Zemlyak
Zemlyak in 2014
Personal information
Born (1990-01-16) 16 January 1990
Rivne, Ukraine
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
Country Ukraine
SportAthletics
Event(s)Sprint
Medal record
European Championships
2012 Helsinki4x400 m relay
2014 Zürich400 m
2014 Zürich4 x 400 m
World Junior Championships
2008 Bydgoszcz4×400 m relay

Career

Zemlyak won the gold medal at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki at the 4×400 metres relay.

Zemlyak occupied the 7th place at the final of 400m event in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Doping cases

Zemlyak tested positive for norandrosterone at the 2009 European Athletics Junior Championships and was subsequently banned from sports for two years.[1][2][3][4] Her results from the championships were annulled, and Ukraine lost the 4 x 400 metre relay gold.[3][5] The competition ban ended 24 August 2011.[2]

Zemlyak then tested positive again on the eve of the 2017 World Championships in Athletics and was suspended from competing in the championships.[6]

In March 2019, the CAS confirms that Zemlyak committed the anti-doping rule infractions and confirms the UAF Executive Committee decisions about disqualification of Zemlyak for 8 years starting from 5 July 2016.[7] Her results in the 2016 Olympic Games were annulled.[8]

Competition record
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing  Ukraine
2008 World Junior Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 18th (sf) 400 m 54.66
2nd 4 × 400 m relay 3:34.20
2009 European Junior Championships Novi Sad, Serbia DQ (4th) 400 m (54.46) Doping
DQ (1st) 4 × 400 m relay (3:35.82) Doping
2012 European Championships Helsinki, Finland 4th 400 m 52.01
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:25.07 (EL)
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom 3rd 4 × 400 m relay 3:23.57
2014 European Team Championships Braunschweig, Germany 3rd 400 m 52.28
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:27.66
European Championships Zürich, Switzerland 2nd 400 m 51.36
2nd 4 × 400 m relay 3:24.32
2015 World Championships Beijing, China 27th (h) 400 m 52.00
5th 4 × 400 m relay 3:25.94
2016 European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands 2sf5 400 m 52.58
6th 4 × 400 m relay 3:27.64
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil DSQ (7th) 400 m 51.24
DSQ (5th) 4 × 400 m relay 3:26.64

References
  1. "IAAF News 2009, Issue 99-108". iaaf.org. IAAF. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  2. "Athletes currently ineligible to compete in Athletics following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation January 2010". IAAF. Archived from the original on February 6, 2010. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  3. Alfonz Juck's EME News: December 12 EME NEWS (DEC 12, 2009) Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Track&Field News, 12 December 2009
  4. Olha Zemlyak, Tilastopaja Oy
  5. EAA: 20th European Athletics Junior Championships Novi Sad SRB 23 - 26 July Archived 2015-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, european-athletics-statistics.org
  6. https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/athletics/world-athletics-championships-2017-drug-test-fail-positive-doping-olesya-povkh-olha-zemlyak-banned-a7876291.html
  7. https://www.tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user_upload/CAS_Media_Release_5654_5655.pdf
  8. https://stillmed.olympic.org/media/Document%20Library/OlympicOrg/News/2020/06/Medal%20reallocations_%20IOC%20EB_2.pdf
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