Olha Zemlyak | |
Birth Date: | 16 January 1990 |
Birth Place: | Rivne, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | Sprint |
Olha Zemlyak (Ukrainian: Ольга Миколаївна Земляк; born 16 January 1990) is a Ukrainian athlete who competes in the sprint.
Zemlyak won the gold medal with Ukraine at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki in the 4 × 400 metres relay.
Zemlyak tested positive for norandrosterone at the 2009 European Athletics Junior Championships and was subsequently banned from sports for two years.[1] [2] Her results from the championships were annulled, and Ukraine lost the 4 × 400 metre relay gold.[1] [3] The competition ban ended 24 August 2011.
Zemlyak then tested positive again on the eve of the 2017 World Championships in Athletics and was suspended from competing in the championships.[4]
In March 2019, the CAS confirmed that Zemlyak committed the anti-doping rule infractions and confirmed the UAF Executive Committee decisions about disqualification of Zemlyak for eight years starting from 5 July 2016.[5] Her results at the 2016 Olympic Games were annulled.[6]
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2008 | World Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 18th (sf) | 400 m | 54.66 | |
bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:34.20 | |||
2009 | European Junior Championships | Novi Sad, Serbia | DSQ (4th) | 400 m | (54.46) Doping | |
DSQ (1st) | 4 × 400 m relay | (3:35.82) Doping | ||||
2012 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 4th | 400 m | 52.01 | |
bgcolor=gold | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:25.07 (EL) | |||
Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:23.57 | ||
2014 | European Team Championships | Braunschweig, Germany | 3rd | 400 m | 52.28 | |
1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:27.66 | ||||
European Championships | Zürich, Switzerland | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 400 m | ||
bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | ||||
2015 | World Championships | Beijing, China | 27th (h) | 400 m | 52.00 | |
5th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:25.94 | ||||
2016 | European Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | bgcolor= | 14th (sf) | 400 m | 52.58 |
bgcolor= | 6th | 4 × 400 m relay | ||||
Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | DSQ (7th) | 400 m | 51.24 | ||
DSQ (5th) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:26.64 | ||||