Natalya Antyukh

Natalya Antyukh, born on 26 June 1981, is a Russian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres and the 400 metres hurdles. She won the bronze medal in the 400 metres and a silver in the 4 x 400 metre relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and took the 400 metre hurdles title at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London she won the 400 metres hurdles and a relay silver, but both results were later removed, the relay medal in 2016 after a teammate was disqualified and the hurdles gold in 2022 once her own results from July 2012 onward were disqualified. She is serving a four-year suspension for anti-doping rule violations that runs from 2021 to 2025.