- Vita Pavlysh
Vita Pavlysh ("Віта Павлиш" in Ukrainian, born
January 15 ,1969 inUkraine ) is a former athlete who specialised in theshot put .Pavlysh was stripped of her
1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships gold medal after she had tested positive foranabolic steroid stanozolol at the event inMaebashi ,Japan . She claimed that she may have taken the drug to aid her recovery from injury. For this offence she received a two year ban.Five years later at the
2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships inBudapest ,Hungary she won the title again only to fail thedrug test for the same reason. She was again stripped of her title and banned from athletics for life.Whether because of her drug-use or not, Pavlysh was famed for her very muscular lower body. During a state television show her middle-thigh was measured at 98cms and her calf at 65cms.
At the same event Russian
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya failed her drug test was also stripped of the gold that she had won in the 200 m and received a two year ban.ee also
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List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences
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