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Unexpected bronze medal

24.03.2011

Russian shot putter Yevgeniya Smirnova will be awarder with the bronze medal of the World Junior Championships, because the winner in the women’s shot put broke anti-doping laws.

A doping test of Brazil’s Geisa Arcanjo (17.02) was positive for the diuretic. The test was taken on 20 July 2010 in Monkton after she won the women’s shot put. So, she will lose her gold medal, and Yevgeniya Smirnova, who placed fourth, will get the bronze medal.


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