Tatyana Chernova

Tatyana Sergeyevna Chernova, born on 29 January 1988 in Krasnodar, is a Russian former heptathlete. She showed early promise in the combined events, winning gold at the 2005 World Youth Championships and the 2006 World Junior Championships, and in 2007 she scored 6768 points, the highest total ever reached by a junior, although it counts as wind-assisted for record purposes. At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing she took fourth place and was later upgraded to bronze, and in 2011 she initially won the world heptathlon title in Daegu with a personal best of 6880 points. Her career was then undone by doping findings: retesting of samples led to annulled results, including that world title, and to suspensions, and on 24 April 2017 she was stripped of her 2008 bronze medal, leaving her with no medals from any major championship. Olympedia lists her at the 2008 and 2012 Games, both marked as disqualified.