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Following is a list of stripped Olympic medals. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the governing body that can rule when athletes are in violation of rules in the Olympic Games. The IOC can strip athletes' Olympic honors and request the return of medals. 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.

Nearly all of the stripped medals involve infractions stemming from doping and drug testing. There are notable exceptions, however. Jim Thorpe was stripped of his two 1912 gold medals based on evidence he had participated in professional sports. Thorpe's honors were restored in 1982, thirty years after his death. 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."[1] Ara Abrahamian was stripped of his bronze medal in 2008 for similar reasons.[2]

In very few cases the IOC has reversed earlier rulings that stripped athletes of medals. In the case of Rick DeMont, in 2001 the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) recognized his gold medal performance in the 1972 Summer Olympics,[3] but only the IOC has the power to restore his medal and it has refused to do so.[3]

List of stripped Olympic medals

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

Olympics Athlete Country Medal Event Reference
1968 Summer Olympics Pentathlon team (Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall)  Sweden Bronze Modern Pentathlon Team
1972 Summer Olympics Bakhaavaa Buidaa  Mongolia Silver Judo, Lightweight [1]
1972 Summer Olympics Jaime Huelamo  Spain Bronze Cycling, Individual Road Race [2]
1972 Summer Olympics Cycling team (Aad van den Hoek)  Netherlands Bronze Cycling, Team Time Trial [3]
1972 Summer Olympics Rick DeMont  United States Gold Swimming, Men's 400m Freestyle [3]
1976 Summer Olympics Blagoy Blagoev  Bulgaria Silver Weightlifting, Men's 82.5 kg [4]
1976 Summer Olympics Zbigniew Kaczmarek  Poland Gold Weightlifting, Men's 67.5 kg [5]
1976 Summer Olympics Valentin Khristov  Bulgaria Gold Weightlifting, Men's 100 kg [6]
1984 Summer Olympics Thomas Johansson  Sweden Silver Wrestling, Greco-Roman Super-Heavyweight [7]
1984 Summer Olympics Martti Vainio  Finland Silver Athletics, Men's 10,000 Meters [8]
1988 Summer Olympics Mitko Grablev  Bulgaria Gold Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg [9]
1988 Summer Olympics Angell Guenchev  Bulgaria Gold Weightlifting, Men's 67.5 kg [10]
1988 Summer Olympics Ben Johnson  Canada Gold Athletics, Men's 100 Meters [11]
1988 Summer Olympics Andor Szanyi  Hungary Gold Weightlifting, Men's 100 kg [12]
1992 Summer Olympics Ibragim Samadov  Unified Team Bronze Weightlifting, Men's Light-Heavyweight [13]
2000 Summer Olympics Ashot Danielyan  Armenia Bronze Weightlifting, Men's 105 kg [14]
2000 Summer Olympics Izabela Dragneva  Bulgaria Gold Weightlifting, Women's 48 kg [15]
2000 Summer Olympics Ivan Ivanov  Bulgaria Silver Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg [16]
2000 Summer Olympics Marion Jones  United States Gold Athletics, Women's 100 Meters [4]
2000 Summer Olympics Marion Jones  United States Gold Athletics, Women's 200 Meters [4]
2000 Summer Olympics Marion Jones  United States Bronze Athletics, Women's Long Jump [4]
2000 Summer Olympics Alexander Leipold  Germany Gold Wrestling, Men's 76 kg [17]
2000 Summer Olympics Sevdalin Minchev  Bulgaria Bronze Weightlifting, Men's 62 kg [18]
2000 Summer Olympics Andreea Răducan  Romania Gold Gymnastics, Women's Individual All-Round [19]
2000 Summer Olympics Relay team (Marion Jones)  United States Bronze Athletics, Women's 400-Meter Relay [5]
2000 Summer Olympics Relay team (Marion Jones)  United States Gold Athletics, Women's 1,600-Meter Relay [5]
2000 Summer Olympics Relay team (Antonio Pettigrew)  United States Gold Athletics, Men's 1,600-Meter Relay [20]
2000 Summer Olympics Gymnastic team (Dong Fangxiao)  China Bronze Gymnastics – Women's artistic team all-around [21]
2002 Winter Olympics Alain Baxter  United Kingdom Bronze Alpine Skiing, Men's Giant Slalom [22]
2002 Winter Olympics Olga Danilova  Russia Gold Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit [23]
2002 Winter Olympics Olga Danilova  Russia Silver Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 10 km [24]
2002 Winter Olympics Larisa Lazutina  Russia Gold Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 30km [25][26]
2002 Winter Olympics Larisa Lazutina  Russia Silver Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 15km [27]
2002 Winter Olympics Larisa Lazutina  Russia Silver Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 5km + 5km combined pursuit [28]
2002 Winter Olympics Johann Muehlegg  Spain Gold Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 50km [29]
2002 Winter Olympics Johann Muehlegg  Spain Gold Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 30km freestyle [30]
2002 Winter Olympics Johann Muehlegg  Spain Gold Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 10 km + 10 km combined pursuit [31]
2004 Summer Olympics Adrián Annus  Hungary Gold Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw [32]
2004 Summer Olympics Róbert Fazekas  Hungary Gold Athletics, Men's Discus Throw [33]
2004 Summer Olympics Ferenc Gyurkovics  Hungary Silver Weightlifting, Men's 105 kg [34]
2004 Summer Olympics Irina Korzhanenko  Russia Gold Athletics, Women's shot put [35]
2004 Summer Olympics Cian O'Connor  Ireland Gold Equestrian, Show Jumping [36]
2004 Summer Olympics Leonidas Sampanis  Greece Bronze Weightlifting, Men's 62 kg [37]
2004 Summer Olympics Equestrian team (Ludger Beerbaum)  Germany Gold Equestrian, Team Show Jumping [38]
2004 Summer Olympics Rowing team (Olena Olefirenko)  Ukraine Bronze Rowing, Women's Quadruple Sculls [39]
2006 Winter Olympics Olga Pyleva  Russia Silver Biathlon, Women's Individual [40]
2008 Summer Olympics Ara Abrahamian  Sweden Bronze Wrestling, Greco-Roman 84 kg [41]
2008 Summer Olympics Jong Su Kim  North Korea Bronze Shooting, Men's 10m Air Pistol [42]
2008 Summer Olympics Jong Su Kim  North Korea Silver Shooting, Men's 50m Air Pistol [43]
2008 Summer Olympics Lyudmila Blonska  Ukraine Silver Athletics, Women's Heptathlon [44]
2008 Summer Olympics Equestrian team (Tony André Hansen)  Norway Bronze Equestrian, Team Show Jumping [45]
2008 Summer Olympics Rashid Ramzi  Bahrain Gold Athletics, Men's 1500 [6]

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.

In the case of Rick DeMont, his medal performance is now recognized by the national USOC but not by the IOC, which has the power to return medals.[3] (See above.)

Olympics Name Country Medal Event Reference
1912 Summer Olympics Jim Thorpe  United States Gold Athletics, Pentathlon
1912 Summer Olympics Jim Thorpe  United States Gold Athletics, Decathlon
1998 Winter Olympics Ross Rebagliati  Canada Gold Snowboarding, Giant Slalom [46]
2004 Summer Olympics María Luisa Calle  Colombia Bronze Cycling, Women's Points Race [7]
2008 Summer Olympics Vadim Devyatovskiy  Belarus Silver Hammer Throw [8]
2008 Summer Olympics Ivan Tsikhan  Belarus Bronze Hammer Throw [8]

References

  1. ^ Bondy, Filip (August 3, 1992). "BARCELONA: Weight Lifting; Medalist's Ban Is A Tangled Tale". New York Times.
  2. ^ Longman, Jere (August 17, 2008). "Swede Stripped of His Medal After His Angry Reaction". New York Times.
  3. ^ a b c d Associated Press (January 30, 2001). "Better late than never". sportsillustrated.cnn.com.
  4. ^ a b c Associated Press (December 12, 2007). "IOC strips Jones of all 5 Olympic medals". MSNBC.com.
  5. ^ a b Associated Press (April 10, 2008). "IOC votes to strip Jones' teammates of medals from 2000 Games". ESPN.
  6. ^ Wilson, Stephen (November 18, 2009). "Ramzi stripped of Olympic 1,500-meter gold medal". Associated Press.
  7. ^ "IOC to return cyclist's Olympic medal". CBC Sports. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. October 27, 2005.
  8. ^ a b Engeler, Elaine (June 10, 2010). "CAS Reinstates Medals for Hammer Throwers". Yahoo! Sports. Associated Press. Retrieved 2010-06-15.

See also

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