LAUSANNE, Switzerland –
American excessive jumper Erik Kynard will lastly get his gold medal from the 2012 London Olympics after the IOC on Friday authorised reallocating some outcomes from these video games due to doping instances.
Kynard’s leap of two.33 meters positioned second in London behind Ivan Ukhov, who was confirmed years later to have taken half within the Russian state-backed steroid doping program.
Ukhov was banned for 4 years in 2019 on the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport. He went again to the identical courtroom final yr for an attraction listening to however didn’t overturn the ruling.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee government board on Friday signed off on reallocating the medals and closing outcomes for 5 occasions from the London Olympics, together with males’s and girls’s excessive leap.
With Kynard upgraded to males’s gold, the three bronze medalists in 2012 will every now get silver medals: Derek Drouin of Canada, Robbie Grabarz of Britain and Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar. Barshim additionally tied for gold on the Tokyo Olympics in August.
The IOC additionally reallocated the bronze medal in ladies’s excessive leap from a Russian athlete. Svetlana Shkolina was disqualified for doping and Spain’s Ruth Beitia will get the bronze.
