Ukrainian track and field athletes Olesya Povkh and Olga Zemlyak were disqualified for 4 years and 8 years respectively for an anti-doping rule violation.

This decision was made by the Executive Committee of the Athletics Federation of Ukraine (FLAU).

The countryman is disqualified for 8 years and suspended from the competition from August 3, 2017 to August 2, 2025. Announced all the results of the competition, it set in the period from July 5, 2016 until August 3, 2017.

Povkh was suspended for 4 years and suspended from participation in sports competitions from August 3, 2017 until August 2, 2021. Annulled all results established between June 15, 2016 to August 3. 2017.

Athletes were deprived of all titles, awards, medals, points received in the specified period. Prize and monetary rewards are also subject to return.

Recall that Olga and Olesya were scandalously suspended from the competitions of the FLAU a few days before the start of the World Cup in London in August 2017. The basis for this was the letters of the International Athletic Federation Association (IAAF) Athletics Integrity Unit, which indicated the excess of testosterone levels in athletes.

Note that Povh is the bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in London in the relay 4 to 100 meters. The countryman became the champion of Europe in 2012 in the relay 4 to 400.