Svetlana Podobedova

Svetlana Podobedova (; born May 25, 1986, Zima, Irkutsk

In June 2016, following the Russian doping scandal, the IWF announced that IOC's reanalyses of samples from the 2012 Beijing Olympics indicated that Podobedova had tested positive for prohibited substances, namely Stanazolol. The IWF imposed mandatory provisional suspension on her and eight other Olympians, including six medalists for Beijing doping. If confirmed, she faced losing her Olympic medal, and all results and medals earned from the date of the sample in 2012 to 2016. In October 2016, she was stripped of her Olympic medal. Zabolotnaya and the bronze medalist, Iryna Kulesha, were disqualified and stripped of their medals as well.