Yuliya Zaripova

Yuliya Zaripova, born in 1986, is a former Russian middle-distance runner who specialised in the 3000 metres steeplechase. She won early continental medals at the 2008 European Cross Country Championships, became Russian indoor 3000 metres champion in 2009, and took silver behind Marta Dominguez at the 2009 World Championships, beating the reigning Olympic champion Gulnara Samitova-Galkina. In 2010 she won the European Athletics Championships and the Continental Cup. She was awarded gold in the steeplechase at the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 Summer Olympics, the latter in a personal best of 9:06.72, but both medals were later taken away after biological passport and retesting findings led to a doping sanction and a Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling. Her record is therefore recorded here as that of a champion who was disqualified.