Tatyana Viktorovna Lysenko (, born 9 October 1983 in Bataysk) is a Russian hammer thrower. Her career has been blighted by repeated doping infractions. In February 2019, the Court of Arbitration for Sport handed her an eight-year ban for doping, starting from 2 July 2016.
Career Lysenko's first world record was a 77.06-metre throw, achieved on 15 July 2005 in Moscow, beating the old record of Mihaela Melinte by 0.99 metres. On 12 June 2006 she lost the record to her compatriot Gulfiya Khanafeyeva, who threw 77.26 metres at the Russian athletics championships in Tula. However, Lysenko threw 77.41 metres on June 24 in Zhukovsky and 77.80 metres in Tallinn, Estonia on August 15. On 21 July 2007 it was reported that she failed a drug test, testing positive for a women's hormone blocker. In 2008, she was found guilty of using 6α-methylandrostendione and received a two-year ban (15.07.07 – 14.07.09) and disqualification of all results from 9 May 2007, including her world record of 78.61 m set on 26 May 2007.Doping Rule Violation
Lysenko returned to competition in July 2009, taking the Russian title with a 76.41 m throw.IAAF report of 2009 Russian Champs She won the gold at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup and ranked third in the inaugural IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge at the end of the year, with a combined score of 223.96 metres for her three best throws. In 2011, she won her first world championship in the first world championships where the top three women all went over 75 m. She was awarded the hammer throw gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics with a throw of 78.18 m. She won the 2013 World Championships with a world leading throw of 78.80 m.
In May 2016 La Gazzetta dello Sport reported that a retest of Lysenko's samples from the 2012 Summer Olympics had tested positive for doping products, her third failure. If confirmed in the B sample, she stood to lose her Olympic and second World titles and faced a lifetime ban from the sport.London 2012 positives return, in italian, 26 MAy 2016 Gazzetta dello Sport In October, she was stripped of her Olympic gold medal.
International competitions 2003European U23 ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland5thHammer throw64.48 m2004Olympic GamesAthens, Greece19thHammer throw66.82 m2005World ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland2ndHammer throw72.46 m2006European ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden1stHammer throw76.67 mWorld CupAthens, Greece2ndHammer throw74.44 m2009World Championships Berlin, Germany6thHammer throw72.22 m2010European Cup Winter Throwing Arles, France3rdHammer throw69.11 mEuropean ChampionshipsBarcelona, Spain2ndHammer throw75.65 mContinental CupSplit, Croatia1stHammer throw73.88 mDécaNationAnnecy, France1stHammer throw72.95 m2011World Championships Daegu, South Korea1stHammer throw77.13 mDécaNationNice, France1stHammer throw74.17 m2012Olympic GamesLondon, United KingdomHammer throw78.18 mDoping2013World Championships Moscow, RussiaHammer throw78.80 m, Doping
See also List of doping cases in athletics List of World Athletics Championships medalists (women) List of European Athletics Championships medalists (women) Doping at the Olympic Games List of 2012 Summer Olympics medal winners List of stripped Olympic medals List of Russian sportspeople List of hammer throwers
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