Yuliya Fomenko (runner)

Yulia Nikolaevna Fomenko (Russian Юлия Николаевна Фоменко, English transcription Yuliya Fomenko, born Чиженко Tschischenko / Chizhenko; born August 30, 1979 in Arkhangelsk ) is a Russian middle distance runner.

At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005, they failed more than 1500 m in the flow. The following year, she won the World Indoor Championships in 2006 over the same distance in the title 4:04,70 min and was at the European Championships in 2006 Second 3:57,61 min.

Doping affair

At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, she took seventh place, and at the World Indoor Championships in Lisbon in 2008, she won silver in 3:59,41 minutes behind her (later also disqualified ) Country woman Jelena Sobolewa who sailed into world record time.

A week before the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, she was provisionally suspended by the IAAF for violating the Anti -Doping Rules. You, Sobolewa and five other Russian athletes has been demonstrated on the basis of DNA analysis to have urine of other people delivered in a doping test fraudulently. The Manipulated samples came from the spring of 2007. Subsequently, all results have been canceled since April 27, 2007, making her placement at the World Championships in 2007, the medal has been withdrawn from the World Indoor Championships in 2008. 2008, the Russian Federation announced that the start of the mature two -year ban would be set at the April 2007 which Fomenko could start at the 2009 World Championships. The IAAF complained against it before the International Court of Sport and got in July 2009 right, so that the now fixed to two years and nine months lock period of Ineligibility in July 2008, valid until April 2011.

Bests

• 800 m: 1:57,07 min 14 June, 2006, Tula Hall: 2:02,40 min 28 January, 2006, Glasgow

• Hall: 2:32,16 min, 25 January 2006 Moscow

• Hall: 4:01,26 min, 18 February 2006, Moscow

• Hall: 8:53,80 min, 10 February 2005 Volgograd