MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say race walker Anisya Kirdyapkina, a two-time world championship medalist, has been banned for doping.
Kirdyapkina was the only athlete from Russia's nine-person Olympic walk team in 2012 to have avoided a ban in multiple investigations into organized doping involving her coach, her teammates and her gold-winning husband, Sergei.
The Russian track federation says Kirdyapkina has been banned for three years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport after her blood data showed signs of doping. She will have to cease her coaching career and is disqualified from second-place finishes from the 2011 and 2013 world championships.
Kirdyapkina originally took the bronze in 2011 but was elevated to second when the winner, Russian teammate Olga Kaniskina, was banned for doping.
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