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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can rule athletes to have violated regulations of the Games, for which athletes' Olympic medals can be stripped (i.e. rescinded).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.

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:

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  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.


• 
  (X) medal declared vacant


• 
  (Y) medal yet to be reallocated or declared vacant

Olympics	Athlete	Country	Medal	Event	Ref
1968 Summer Olympics	Modern Pentathlon team (Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall)	Sweden		Modern pentathlon, Team	[8]
1972 Summer Olympics	Bakhvain Buyadaa	Mongolia		Judo, Men's 63 kg (X)	[9]
	Cycling team (Aad van den Hoek)	Netherlands		Cycling, Men's team time trial (X)	[10]
	Jaime Huélamo	Spain		Cycling, Men's individual road race (X)	[10]
	Rick DeMont	United States		Swimming, Men's 400 m freestyle	[5]
1976 Winter Olympics	Galina Kulakova	Soviet Union		Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 5 km	[11]
1976 Summer Olympics	Valentin Khristov	Bulgaria		Weightlifting, Men's 110 kg	[12]
	Blagoy Blagoev			Weightlifting, Men's 82.5 kg	[13]
	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	Poland		Weightlifting, Men's 67.5 kg	[14]
1984 Summer Olympics	Martti Vainio	Finland		Athletics, Men's 10,000 m	[15]
	Tomas Johansson	Sweden		Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman +100 kg	[16]
1988 Summer Olympics	Mitko Grablev	Bulgaria		Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg	[17]
	Angel Guenchev			Weightlifting, Men's 67.5 kg	[17]
	Ben Johnson	Canada		Athletics, Men's 100 m	[18]
	Andor Szanyi	Hungary		Weightlifting, Men's 100 kg	[19]
1992 Summer Olympics	Ibragim Samadov	Unified Team		Weightlifting, Men's 82.5 kg (X)	[2]
2000 Summer Olympics	Ashot Danielyan	Armenia		Weightlifting, Men's +105 kg	[20]
	Izabela Dragneva	Bulgaria		Weightlifting, Women's 48 kg	[21]
	Ivan Ivanov			Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg	[21]
	Sevdalin Minchev			Weightlifting, Men's 62 kg	[21]
	Gymnastics team (Dong Fangxiao)	China		Gymnastics, Women's artistic team all-around	[22]
	Alexander Leipold	Germany		Wrestling, Men's freestyle 76 kg	[23]
	Andreea Răducan	Romania		Gymnastics, Women's artistic individual all-around	[24]
	Marion Jones	United States		Athletics, Women's 100 m (X)	[25]
				Athletics, Women's 200 m	[25]
				Athletics, Women's long jump	[25]
	Relay team (Antonio Pettigrew, Jerome Young)			Athletics, Men's 4 × 400 m relay	[26]
	Lance Armstrong			Cycling, Men's road time trial (X)	[27]
2002 Winter Olympics	Alain Baxter	Great Britain		Alpine Skiing, Men's slalom	[28]
	Olga Danilova	Russia		Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit	[29]
				Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 10 km classical	[29]
	Larisa Lazutina			Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 30 km classical	[29][30]
				Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 15 km freestyle mass start	[31]
				Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit	[31]
	Johann Mühlegg	Spain		Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 50 km classical	[29]
				Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 30 km freestyle	[32]
				Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 10 km + 10 km combined pursuit	[32]
2004 Summer Olympics	Ivan Tsikhan	Belarus		Athletics, Men's hammer throw (X)	[33]
	Iryna Yatchenko			Athletics, Women's discus throw	[33]
	Equestrian team[nb 1] (Goldfever horse; Ludger Beerbaum rider)	Germany		Equestrian, Team show jumping	[34]
	Leonidas Sabanis	Greece		Weightlifting, Men's 62 kg	[35]
	Adrián Annus	Hungary		Athletics, Men's hammer throw	[36]
	Róbert Fazekas			Athletics, Men's discus throw	[37]
	Ferenc Gyurkovics			Weightlifting, Men's 105 kg	[38]
	Waterford Crystal (horse; Cian O'Connor rider)	Ireland		Equestrian, Individual show jumping	[39]
	Irina Korzhanenko	Russia		Athletics, Women's shot put	[40]
	Svetlana Krivelyova			Athletics, Women's shot put (X)	[33]
	Oleg Perepetchenov			Weightlifting, Men's 77 kg	[41]
	Yuriy Bilonoh	Ukraine		Athletics, Men's shot put	[33]
	Rowing team (Olena Olefirenko)			Rowing, Women's quadruple sculls	[42]
	Tyler Hamilton	United States		Cycling, Men's road time trial	[43]
2006 Winter Olympics	Olga Pyleva	Russia		Biathlon, Women's individual	[44]
2008 Summer Olympics	Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan	Armenia		Weightlifting, Men's 69 kg	[45]
	Vitaliy Rahimov	Azerbaijan		Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg	[46]
	Rashid Ramzi	Bahrain		Athletics, Men's 1500 m	[47]
	Aksana Miankova	Belarus		Athletics, Women's hammer throw	[48]
	Natallia Mikhnevich			Athletics, Women's shot put	[48]
	Andrei Rybakou			Weightlifting, Men's 85 kg	[50]
	Andrei Mikhnevich			Athletics, Men's shot put	[51]
	Nastassia Novikava			Weightlifting, Women's 53 kg	[50]
	Nadzeya Ostapchuk			Athletics, Women's shot put	[52]
	Liu Chunhong	China		Weightlifting, Women's 69 kg	[52]
	Cao Lei			Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg	[52]
	Chen Xiexia			Weightlifting, Women's 48 kg	[52]
	Yarelys Barrios	Cuba		Athletics, Women's discus throw	[53]
	Hrysopiyi Devetzi	Greece		Athletics, Women's triple jump (Y)	[46]
	Davide Rebellin	Italy		Cycling, Men's road race	[54]
	Relay team (Nesta Carter)	Jamaica		Athletics, Men's 4 × 100 m relay (Y)	[55]
	Ilya Ilyin	Kazakhstan		Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg	[48]
	Irina Nekrassova			Weightlifting, Women's 63 kg	[46]
	Taimuraz Tigiyev			Wrestling, Men's freestyle 96 kg	[50]
	Mariya Grabovetskaya			Weightlifting, Women's +75 kg	[46]
	Asset Mambetov			Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg	[46]
	Kim Jong-su	North Korea		Shooting, Men's 50 m air pistol	[56]
				Shooting, Men's 10 m air pistol	[56][57]
	Equestrian team[nb 2] (Camiro horse; Tony André Hansen rider)	Norway		Equestrian, team show jumping	[58]
	Relay team (Yuliya Chermoshanskaya)	Russia		Athletics, Women's 4 × 100 m relay	[59]
	Maria Abakumova			Athletics, Women's javelin throw (Y)	[60]
	Khasan Baroyev			Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg (Y)	[46]
	Tatyana Lebedeva			Athletics, Women's triple jump (Y)	[55]
				Athletics, Women's long jump (Y)	[55]
	Relay team (Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Tatyana Firova)			Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 m relay	[45]
	Marina Shainova			Weightlifting, Women's 58 kg	[45]
	Khadzhimurat Akkayev			Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg	[46]
	Anna Chicherova			Athletics, Women's high jump	[63]
	Nadezhda Evstyukhina			Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg	[45]
	Dmitry Lapikov			Weightlifting, Men's 105 kg	[46]
	Tatyana Chernova			Athletics, Women's heptathlon	[64]
	Relay team (Denis Alexeev)			Athletics, Men's 4 × 400 m relay	[60]
	Yekaterina Volkova			Athletics, Women's 3000 m steeplechase	[50]
	Ara Abrahamian	Sweden		Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg (X)	[65]
	Elvan Abeylegesse	Turkey		Athletics, Women's 5000 metres	[66]
				Athletics, Women's 10000 metres	[66]
	Sibel Özkan			Weightlifting, Women's 48 kg	[67]
	Lyudmyla Blonska	Ukraine		Athletics, Women's heptathlon	[68]
	Vasyl Fedoryshyn			Wrestling, Men's freestyle 60 kg	[69]
	Olha Korobka			Weightlifting, Women's +75 kg	[50]
	Nataliya Davydova			Weightlifting, Women's 69 kg (Y)	[46]
	Victoria Tereshchuk			Modern pentathlon, Women's modern pentathlon	[70]
	Denys Yurchenko			Athletics, Men's pole vault	[46]
	Artur Taymazov	Uzbekistan		Wrestling, Men's freestyle 120 kg	[69]
	Soslan Tigiev			Wrestling, Men's freestyle 74 kg	[50]
2012 Summer Olympics	Hripsime Khurshudyan	Armenia		Weightlifting, Women's +75 kg (Y)	[71]
	Nadzeya Ostapchuk	Belarus		Athletics, Women's shot put	[72]
	Iryna Kulesha			Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg	[71]
	Maryna Shkermankova			Weightlifting, Women's 69 kg (Y)	[74]
	Zulfiya Chinshanlo	Kazakhstan		Weightlifting, Women's 53 kg (Y)	[74]
	Ilya Ilyin			Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg	[48]
	Maiya Maneza			Weightlifting, Women's 63 kg (Y)	[74]
	Svetlana Podobedova			Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg	[74]
	Anatolie Cîrîcu	Moldova		Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg	[71]
	Cristina Iovu			Weightlifting, Women's 53 kg (Y)	[71]
	Sergey Kirdyapkin	Russia		Athletics, Men's 50 km walk	[75]
	Tatyana Lysenko			Athletics, Women's hammer throw	[76]
	Mariya Savinova			Athletics, Women's 800 m	[77]
	Yuliya Zaripova			Athletics, Women's 3000 m steeplechase	[78][71]
	Apti Aukhadov			Weightlifting, Men's 85 kg	[79]
	Aleksandr Ivanov			Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg	[71]
	Olga Kaniskina			Athletics, Women's 20 km walk (Y)	[80]
	Yevgeniya Kolodko			Athletics, Women's shot put (Y)	[81]
	Darya Pishchalnikova			Athletics, Women's discus throw	[82]
	Relay team (Antonina Krivoshapka, Yulia Gushchina)			Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 m relay	[83][84]
	Svetlana Tsarukayeva			Weightlifting, Women's 63 kg	[69]
	Natalia Zabolotnaya			Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg	[71]
	Tatyana Chernova			Athletics, Women's heptathlon	[85]
	Asli Cakir Alptekin	Turkey		Athletics, Women's 1500 m	[86]
	Gamze Bulut			Athletics, Women's 1500 m	[66]
	Relay team (Tyson Gay)	United States		Athletics, Men's 4 × 100 m relay	[87]
	Oleksandr Pyatnytsya	Ukraine		Athletics, Men's javelin throw (Y)	[88]
	Yuliya Kalina			Weightlifting, Women's 58 kg	[89]
	Soslan Tigiev	Uzbekistan		Wrestling, Men's freestyle 74 kg	[90]
2014 Winter Olympics	Two-man (Alexandr Zubkov, Alexey Voyevoda)	Russia		Bobsleigh, Two-man (Y)	[91][92][93]
	Four-man (Alexandr Zubkov, Alexey Voyevoda)			Bobsleigh, Four-man (Y)
	Olga Vilukhina			Biathlon, Women's sprint (Y)	[92]
	Relay team (Olga Vilukhina, Yana Romanova, Olga Zaitseva)			Biathlon, Women's relay (Y)	[92]
2016 Summer Olympics	Izzat Artykov	Kyrgyzstan		Weightlifting, Men's 69 kg	[94]
	Serghei Tarnovschi	Moldova		Canoeing, Men's C-1 1000 m	[95]
	Gabriel Sîncrăian	Romania		Weightlifting, Men's 85 kg	[96]
	Mikhail Aloyan	Russia		Boxing, Men's flyweight	[96]
2018 Winter Olympics	Curling team (Aleksandr Krushelnitckii)	Olympic Athletes from Russia		Curling, Mixed doubles	[97]

Notes:

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		Athletics, Men's pentathlon	[98]
				Athletics, Men's decathlon	[98]
1952 Summer Olympics	Ingemar Johansson	Sweden		Boxing, Men's Heavyweight	[99]
1964 Winter Olympics	Marika Kilius, Hans-Jürgen Bäumler	Germany		Figure skating, Pairs	[100]
1998 Winter Olympics	Ross Rebagliati	Canada		Snowboarding, Men's giant slalom	[101]
2000 Summer Olympics	Relay team (except Marion Jones)	United States		Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 m relay	[102]
	Relay team (except Marion Jones)			Athletics, Women's 4 × 100 m relay	[102]
2004 Summer Olympics	María Luisa Calle	Colombia		Cycling, Women's points race	[103]
2008 Summer Olympics	Vadim Devyatovskiy	Belarus		Athletics, Men's hammer throw	[104]
	Ivan Tsikhan			Athletics, Men's hammer throw	[104]
2014 Winter Olympics	Alexander Legkov	Russia		Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 50km freestyle	[105]
	Aleksandr Tretyakov			Skeleton, Men's Individual	[105]
	Relay team (Alexander Legkov, Maxim Vylegzhanin, Alexander Bessmertnykh)			Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 4 x 10km relay	[105]
	Maksim Vylegzhanin			Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 50km freestyle	[105]
	Relay team (Maxim Vylegzhanin, Nikita Kryukov)			Cross-Country Skiing, men's team sprint	[105]
	Olga Fatkulina			Speed Skating, Women's 500 metres	[105]
	Albert Demchenko			Luge, Men's singles	[105]
	Relay team (Albert Demchenko, Tatiana Ivanova)			Luge, Team relay	[105]
	Elena Nikitina			Skeleton, Women's Individual	[105]
	Nicklas Bäckström	Sweden		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				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				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				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

References

External links

• Drug testing at the Sydney Olympics