List of stripped Olympic medals




The following is a list of stripped Olympic medals. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the governing body of the Olympic Games, and as such, can rule athletes to have violated regulations of the Games, for which athletes' Olympic medals can be stripped (i.e. rescinded). Stripped medals must be returned to the IOC by the offending athlete.




Contents






  • 1 Record


  • 2 List of stripped Olympic medals


  • 3 List of Olympic medals stripped and later returned


  • 4 Stripped, returned, and stripped


  • 5 Medals stripped by country


  • 6 Medals stripped by gender


  • 7 Medals stripped by sport


  • 8 See also


  • 9 References


  • 10 External links





Record


In the case of team events, the IOC can strip medals from a team based on infractions by a single team member. In the table below, for stripped team medals, the athlete in violation is shown in parentheses. The international governing body of each Olympic sport can also strip athletes of medals for infractions of the rules of the sport.


From October 1968 to February 2018, a total of 140 medals have been stripped, with 9 medals declared vacant (rather than being reallocated) after being stripped. The vast majority of these have occurred since 2000 due to improved drug testing methods.


The majority of medals have been stripped in athletics (48, including 18 gold medals) and weightlifting (46, including 13 gold medals). The country with the most stripped medals is Russia (and Russian associated teams), with 44, four times the number of the next highest, and more than 30% of the total.


Among particular Olympic Games, the 2008 Summer Olympics has the most stripped medals, at 50. Among Winter Olympics, the 2002 Winter Olympics has the most medals stripped with 13.


All but seven of the stripped medals involve infractions stemming from doping and drug testing:




  • Jim Thorpe was stripped of his two gold medals by the International Olympic Committee in 1913, after the IOC learned that Thorpe had taken expense money for playing baseball before the 1912 Games, violating Olympic amateurism rules that had been in place at the time. In 1982, 29 years after his death, the IOC was convinced that the disqualification had been improper, as no protest against Thorpe's eligibility had been brought within the required 30 days, and reinstated Thorpe's medals, with replicas presented to his children.


  • Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler were stripped of their 1964 silver medal in figure skating for similar reasons to Thorpe, but had them reinstated in 1987.


  • Ingemar Johansson was disqualified from the gold medal fight in the 1952 heavyweight boxing competition after the referee deemed that he was "failing to show fight" to win the three-round match, and was subsequently deemed to have forfeited the minimum silver medal he would have won. Johansson said that he did not throw any punches at his opponent in the first two rounds to tire him out before releasing a barrage of punches in the third. He was eventually presented with his silver medal in 1982.[1]


  • Ibragim Samadov of the 1992 Unified Team was stripped of his bronze medal after he "hurled his bronze medal to the floor" and "stormed off the stage during the awards ceremony."[2]Ara Abrahamian of Sweden was stripped of his bronze medal in 2008 for similar reasons.[3]

  • China was stripped of a team gymnastics bronze medal from 2000 in 2010 after a team member was found to have been underage at the time of the competition.


Note that some athletes have had medals taken away from them for different methods of cheating before physically getting on to the medal podium such as American marathon runner Frederick Lorz at the 1904 Olympics and Swedish horse rider Bertil Sandström at the 1932 Olympics. These athletes are not included in the list as they were never awarded their medals in the first place but disqualified before receiving their medals and were never guaranteed to win them going in to the final rounds of competition.[4]


Also note that Russian wrestler Besik Kudukhov failed a drug test in 2016 from a sample taken when he competed in the 60 kg freestyle wrestling event at the 2012 Olympics. However his medal was not stripped due to the fact that he had died in a car crash three years earlier, therefore his medal was retained.


In a few cases, the IOC has reversed earlier rulings that stripped athletes of medals. In the case of Rick DeMont, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) recognized his gold medal performance in the 1972 Summer Olympics in 2001,[5] but only the IOC has the power to restore his medal, and it has, as of 2018, refused to do so.[5] DeMont won a gold medal for his first-place finish (4:00.26) in the men's 400-meter freestyle. Following the race, the IOC stripped DeMont of his gold medal[6] after his post-race urinalysis tested positive for traces of the banned substance ephedrine contained in his prescription asthma medication, Marax. The positive test following the 400-meter freestyle final also deprived him of a chance at multiple medals, as he was not permitted to swim in any other events at the 1972 Olympics, including the 1,500-meter freestyle for which he was the then-current world record-holder. Before the Olympics, DeMont had properly declared his asthma medications on his medical disclosure forms, but the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) had not cleared them with the IOC's medical committee.[7]



List of stripped Olympic medals



  • This is the list of Olympic medals stripped by the IOC, the governing body of the Olympics.


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Olympics
Athlete
Country
Medal
Event
Ref

1968 Summer Olympics
Modern Pentathlon team (Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall)

 Sweden

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Modern pentathlon, Team
[8]

1972 Summer Olympics

Bakhvain Buyadaa

 Mongolia

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Judo, Men's 63 kg (X)
[9]
Cycling team (Aad van den Hoek)

 Netherlands

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Cycling, Men's team time trial (X)
[10]

Jaime Huélamo

 Spain

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Cycling, Men's individual road race (X)
[10]

Rick DeMont

 United States

1st, gold medalist(s)

Swimming, Men's 400 m freestyle
[5]

1976 Winter Olympics

Galina Kulakova

 Soviet Union

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 5 km
[11]

1976 Summer Olympics

Valentin Khristov

 Bulgaria

1st, gold medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 110 kg
[12]

Blagoy Blagoev

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 82.5 kg
[13]

Zbigniew Kaczmarek

 Poland

1st, gold medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 67.5 kg
[14]

1984 Summer Olympics

Martti Vainio

 Finland

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's 10,000 m
[15]

Tomas Johansson

 Sweden

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman +100 kg
[16]

1988 Summer Olympics

Mitko Grablev

 Bulgaria

1st, gold medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg
[17]

Angel Guenchev

1st, gold medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 67.5 kg
[17]

Ben Johnson

 Canada

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's 100 m
[18]

Andor Szanyi

 Hungary

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 100 kg
[19]

1992 Summer Olympics

Ibragim Samadov

Olympic flag.svg Unified Team

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 82.5 kg (X)
[2]

2000 Summer Olympics

Ashot Danielyan

 Armenia

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's +105 kg
[20]

Izabela Dragneva

 Bulgaria

1st, gold medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 48 kg
[21]

Ivan Ivanov

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg
[21]

Sevdalin Minchev

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 62 kg
[21]
Gymnastics team (Dong Fangxiao)

 China

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Gymnastics, Women's artistic team all-around
[22]

Alexander Leipold

 Germany

1st, gold medalist(s)

Wrestling, Men's freestyle 76 kg
[23]

Andreea Răducan

 Romania

1st, gold medalist(s)

Gymnastics, Women's artistic individual all-around
[24]

Marion Jones

 United States

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's 100 m (X)
[25]

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's 200 m
[25]

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's long jump
[25]
Relay team
(Antonio Pettigrew, Jerome Young)

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's 4 × 400 m relay
[26]

Lance Armstrong

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Cycling, Men's road time trial (X)
[27]

2002 Winter Olympics

Alain Baxter

 Great Britain

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Alpine Skiing, Men's slalom
[28]

Olga Danilova

 Russia

1st, gold medalist(s)

Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit
[29]

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 10 km classical
[29]

Larisa Lazutina

1st, gold medalist(s)

Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 30 km classical

[29][30]

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 15 km freestyle mass start
[31]

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit
[31]

Johann Mühlegg

 Spain

1st, gold medalist(s)

Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 50 km classical
[29]

1st, gold medalist(s)

Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 30 km freestyle
[32]

1st, gold medalist(s)

Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 10 km + 10 km combined pursuit
[32]

2004 Summer Olympics

Ivan Tsikhan

 Belarus

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's hammer throw (X)
[33]

Iryna Yatchenko

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's discus throw
[33]
Equestrian team[nb 1]
(Goldfever horse; Ludger Beerbaum rider)

 Germany

1st, gold medalist(s)

Equestrian, Team show jumping
[34]

Leonidas Sabanis

 Greece

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 62 kg
[35]

Adrián Annus

 Hungary

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's hammer throw
[36]

Róbert Fazekas

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's discus throw
[37]

Ferenc Gyurkovics

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 105 kg
[38]
Waterford Crystal (horse; Cian O'Connor rider)

 Ireland

1st, gold medalist(s)

Equestrian, Individual show jumping
[39]

Irina Korzhanenko

 Russia

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's shot put
[40]

Svetlana Krivelyova

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's shot put (X)
[33]

Oleg Perepetchenov

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 77 kg
[41]

Yuriy Bilonoh

 Ukraine

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's shot put
[33]
Rowing team (Olena Olefirenko)

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Rowing, Women's quadruple sculls
[42]

Tyler Hamilton

 United States

1st, gold medalist(s)

Cycling, Men's road time trial
[43]

2006 Winter Olympics

Olga Pyleva

 Russia

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Biathlon, Women's individual
[44]

2008 Summer Olympics

Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan

 Armenia

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 69 kg
[45]

Vitaliy Rahimov

 Azerbaijan

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg
[46]

Rashid Ramzi

 Bahrain

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's 1500 m
[47]

Aksana Miankova

 Belarus

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's hammer throw
[48]

Natallia Mikhnevich

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's shot put
[48]

Andrei Rybakou

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 85 kg
[50]

Andrei Mikhnevich

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's shot put
[51]

Nastassia Novikava

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 53 kg
[50]

Nadzeya Ostapchuk

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's shot put
[52]

Liu Chunhong

 China

1st, gold medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 69 kg
[52]

Cao Lei

1st, gold medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg
[52]

Chen Xiexia

1st, gold medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 48 kg
[52]

Yarelys Barrios

 Cuba

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's discus throw
[53]

Hrysopiyi Devetzi

 Greece

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's triple jump (Y)
[46]

Davide Rebellin

 Italy

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Cycling, Men's road race
[54]
Relay team (Nesta Carter)

 Jamaica

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's 4 × 100 m relay (Y)
[55]

Ilya Ilyin

 Kazakhstan

1st, gold medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg
[48]

Irina Nekrassova

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 63 kg
[46]

Taimuraz Tigiyev

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Wrestling, Men's freestyle 96 kg
[50]

Mariya Grabovetskaya

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's +75 kg
[46]

Asset Mambetov

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg
[46]

Kim Jong-su

 North Korea

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Shooting, Men's 50 m air pistol
[56]

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Shooting, Men's 10 m air pistol

[56][57]
Equestrian team[nb 2]
(Camiro horse; Tony André Hansen rider)

 Norway

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Equestrian, team show jumping
[58]
Relay team (Yuliya Chermoshanskaya)

 Russia

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's 4 × 100 m relay
[59]

Maria Abakumova

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's javelin throw (Y)
[60]

Khasan Baroyev

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg (Y)
[46]

Tatyana Lebedeva

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's triple jump (Y)
[55]

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's long jump (Y)
[55]
Relay team
(Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Tatyana Firova)

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 m relay
[45]

Marina Shainova

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 58 kg
[45]

Khadzhimurat Akkayev

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg
[46]

Anna Chicherova

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's high jump
[63]

Nadezhda Evstyukhina

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg
[45]

Dmitry Lapikov

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 105 kg
[46]

Tatyana Chernova

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's heptathlon
[64]
Relay team (Denis Alexeev)

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's 4 × 400 m relay
[60]

Yekaterina Volkova

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's 3000 m steeplechase
[50]

Ara Abrahamian

 Sweden

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg (X)
[65]

Elvan Abeylegesse

 Turkey

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's 5000 metres
[66]

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's 10000 metres
[66]

Sibel Özkan

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 48 kg
[67]

Lyudmyla Blonska

 Ukraine

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's heptathlon
[68]

Vasyl Fedoryshyn

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Wrestling, Men's freestyle 60 kg
[69]

Olha Korobka

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's +75 kg
[50]

Nataliya Davydova

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 69 kg (Y)
[46]

Victoria Tereshchuk

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Modern pentathlon, Women's modern pentathlon
[70]

Denys Yurchenko

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's pole vault
[46]

Artur Taymazov

 Uzbekistan

1st, gold medalist(s)

Wrestling, Men's freestyle 120 kg
[69]

Soslan Tigiev

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Wrestling, Men's freestyle 74 kg
[50]

2012 Summer Olympics

Hripsime Khurshudyan

 Armenia

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's +75 kg (Y)
[71]

Nadzeya Ostapchuk

 Belarus

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's shot put
[72]

Iryna Kulesha

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg
[71]

Maryna Shkermankova

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 69 kg (Y)
[74]

Zulfiya Chinshanlo

 Kazakhstan

1st, gold medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 53 kg (Y)
[74]

Ilya Ilyin

1st, gold medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg
[48]

Maiya Maneza

1st, gold medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 63 kg (Y)
[74]

Svetlana Podobedova

1st, gold medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg
[74]

Anatolie Cîrîcu

 Moldova

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg
[71]

Cristina Iovu

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 53 kg (Y)
[71]

Sergey Kirdyapkin

 Russia

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's 50 km walk
[75]

Tatyana Lysenko

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's hammer throw
[76]

Mariya Savinova

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's 800 m
[77]

Yuliya Zaripova

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's 3000 m steeplechase

[78][71]

Apti Aukhadov

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 85 kg
[79]

Aleksandr Ivanov

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg
[71]

Olga Kaniskina

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's 20 km walk (Y)
[80]

Yevgeniya Kolodko

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's shot put (Y)
[81]

Darya Pishchalnikova

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's discus throw
[82]
Relay team (Antonina Krivoshapka, Yulia Gushchina)

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 m relay

[83][84]

Svetlana Tsarukayeva

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 63 kg
[69]

Natalia Zabolotnaya

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg
[71]

Tatyana Chernova

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's heptathlon
[85]

Asli Cakir Alptekin

 Turkey

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's 1500 m
[86]

Gamze Bulut

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's 1500 m
[66]
Relay team (Tyson Gay)

 United States

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's 4 × 100 m relay
[87]

Oleksandr Pyatnytsya

 Ukraine

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's javelin throw (Y)
[88]

Yuliya Kalina

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Women's 58 kg
[89]

Soslan Tigiev

 Uzbekistan

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Wrestling, Men's freestyle 74 kg
[90]

2014 Winter Olympics
Two-man (Alexandr Zubkov, Alexey Voyevoda)

 Russia

1st, gold medalist(s)

Bobsleigh, Two-man (Y)

[91][92][93]
Four-man (Alexandr Zubkov, Alexey Voyevoda)

1st, gold medalist(s)

Bobsleigh, Four-man (Y)

Olga Vilukhina

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Biathlon, Women's sprint (Y)
[92]
Relay team (Olga Vilukhina, Yana Romanova, Olga Zaitseva)

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Biathlon, Women's relay (Y)
[92]

2016 Summer Olympics

Izzat Artykov

 Kyrgyzstan

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 69 kg
[94]

Serghei Tarnovschi

 Moldova

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Canoeing, Men's C-1 1000 m
[95]

Gabriel Sîncrăian

 Romania

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Weightlifting, Men's 85 kg
[96]

Mikhail Aloyan

 Russia

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Boxing, Men's flyweight
[96]

2018 Winter Olympics
Curling team (Aleksandr Krushelnitckii)

 Olympic Athletes from Russia

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Curling, Mixed doubles
[97]

Notes:





  1. ^ The Germany team was not disqualified, but with Beerbaum's score excluded, it dropped from gold medalist to bronze medalist.


  2. ^ The Norwegian team was not disqualified, but with Hansen's score excluded, it dropped from bronze medalist to tenth.




List of Olympic medals stripped and later returned


Here is the list of Olympic medals that were stripped by the IOC and later returned by the IOC.



















































































































































Olympics
Athlete
Country
Medal
Event
Ref

1912 Summer Olympics

Jim Thorpe

 United States

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's pentathlon
[98]

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's decathlon
[98]

1952 Summer Olympics

Ingemar Johansson

 Sweden

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Boxing, Men's Heavyweight
[99]

1964 Winter Olympics

Marika Kilius, Hans-Jürgen Bäumler

Germany

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Figure skating, Pairs
[100]

1998 Winter Olympics

Ross Rebagliati

 Canada

1st, gold medalist(s)

Snowboarding, Men's giant slalom
[101]

2000 Summer Olympics
Relay team (except Marion Jones)

 United States

1st, gold medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 m relay
[102]
Relay team (except Marion Jones)

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Athletics, Women's 4 × 100 m relay
[102]

2004 Summer Olympics

María Luisa Calle

 Colombia

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Cycling, Women's points race
[103]

2008 Summer Olympics

Vadim Devyatovskiy

 Belarus

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's hammer throw
[104]

Ivan Tsikhan

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Athletics, Men's hammer throw
[104]

2014 Winter Olympics

Alexander Legkov

 Russia

1st, gold medalist(s)

Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 50km freestyle
[105]

Aleksandr Tretyakov

1st, gold medalist(s)

Skeleton, Men's Individual
[105]
Relay team (Alexander Legkov, Maxim Vylegzhanin, Alexander Bessmertnykh)

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 4 x 10km relay
[105]

Maksim Vylegzhanin

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 50km freestyle
[105]
Relay team (Maxim Vylegzhanin, Nikita Kryukov)

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Cross-Country Skiing, men's team sprint
[105]

Olga Fatkulina

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Speed Skating, Women's 500 metres
[105]

Albert Demchenko

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Luge, Men's singles
[105]
Relay team (Albert Demchenko, Tatiana Ivanova)

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Luge, Team relay
[105]

Elena Nikitina

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Skeleton, Women's Individual
[105]

Nicklas Bäckström

 Sweden

2nd, silver medalist(s)

Ice hockey, Men's tournament
[106]


Stripped, returned, and stripped


Six gold medals for the 2000 Olympic men's 4 × 400 metres relay were awarded to the U.S. squad of Jerome Young, Michael Johnson, Antonio Pettigrew, Angelo Taylor, Alvin Harrison and Calvin Harrison. In 2004, after Young was retroactively banned from 1999 to 2001, all six were stripped of their medals.


In 2005, the Court of Arbitration for Sport restored the medals of the remaining five, but in 2008, Pettigrew admitted to the use of HGH and EPO from 1997 to 2003, meaning that the team was disqualified. On 12 July 2012, the IOC confirmed the medal reallocation.[107]



Medals stripped by country


A total of 35 different countries/teams have had medals stripped including the former Soviet Union, the Unified Team of 1992 and the Olympic Athletes from Russia team of 2018.








































































































































































































































































Stripped medals by country

Country

1st, gold medalist(s)

2nd, silver medalist(s)

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Total

 Russia (RUS)
10
21
10
41

 Belarus (BLR)
2
3
6
11

 Ukraine (UKR)
1
4
5
10

 Kazakhstan (KAZ)
5
2
2
9

 United States (USA)
5
1
2
8

 Bulgaria (BUL)
4
2
1
7

 China (CHN)
3
0
1
4

 Spain (ESP)
3
0
1
4

 Hungary (HUN)
2
2
0
4

 Germany (GER)
2
0
0
2

 Turkey (TUR)
1
4
0
5

 Uzbekistan (UZB)
1
1
1
3

 Romania (ROM)
1
0
1
2

 Bahrain (BRN)
1
0
0
1

 Canada (CAN)
1
0
0
1

 Ireland (IRL)
1
0
0
1

 Jamaica (JAM)
1
0
0
1

 Poland (POL)
1
0
0
1

 Sweden (SWE)
0
1
2
3

 North Korea (PRK)
0
1
1
2

 Azerbaijan (AZE)
0
1
0
1

 Cuba (CUB)
0
1
0
1

 Finland (FIN)
0
1
0
1

 Italy (ITA)
0
1
0
1

 Mongolia (MGL)
0
1
0
1

 Armenia (ARM)
0
0
3
3

 Moldova (MDA)
0
0
3
3

 Greece (GRE)
0
0
2
2

 Great Britain (GBR)
0
0
1
1

 Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)
0
0
1
1

 Netherlands (NED)
0
0
1
1

 Norway (NOR)
0
0
1
1

 Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR)
0
0
1
1

 Soviet Union (URS)
0
0
1
1

 Unified Team (EUN)
0
0
1
1
Total 45 47 48
140


Medals stripped by gender


Men have had slightly more medals stripped overall. Men have also had slightly more gold and bronze medals stripped, but women have had more silver medals stripped.


Mixed events will be classed in the table below on which gender caused the medal to be stripped. If both genders contribute to the medal being stripped, then it should be added to both tallies. Note that Marion Jones' stripped relay medals are not counted.





































Stripped medals by gender

Gender

1st, gold medalist(s)

2nd, silver medalist(s)

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Total

Percentage
Male
25
21
26
72
51.4%
Female
20
26
22
68
48.6%
Total 45 47 48 140
100%


Medals stripped by sport


A total of 18 different sports have had medals stripped: 13 from the Summer Olympics and 5 from the Winter Olympics. Athletics and Weightlifting have had by far the greatest numbers of medals stripped compared to any other sport.

















































































































































Stripped medals by sport

Sport

1st, gold medalist(s)

2nd, silver medalist(s)

3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Total
Athletics
18
18
12
48
Weightlifting
13
13
20
46
Wrestling
2
6
3
11
Cross-Country Skiing
5
3
1
9
Cycling
1
1
3
5
Equestrian
2
0
1
3
Biathlon
0
3
0
3
Bobsleigh
2
0
0
2
Gymnastics
1
0
1
2
Shooting
0
1
1
2
Modern Pentathlon
0
0
2
2
Swimming
1
0
0
1
Boxing
0
1
0
1
Judo
0
1
0
1
Canoeing
0
0
1
1
Alpine Skiing
0
0
1
1
Rowing
0
0
1
1
Curling
0
0
1
1
Total 45 47 48
140


See also



  • All-time Olympic Games medal table

  • Doping at the Olympic Games

  • List of doping cases in sport



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