Kelly Sotherton set for Olympic bronze after Russia's Chernova tests positive for steroid use.

Britain’s Kelly Sotherton is set to be upgraded to her third Olympic bronze medal.

The development comes as a result of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) disqualifying Russian hepathlete Tatyana Chernova for testing positive for a steroid at the 2008 Games in Beijing.

Chernova’s positive is only the latest in a long line from the IOC’s re-analysis of stored anti-doping samples from the 2008 and 2012 Games.

Sotherton, who won a surprise bronze medal in the heptathlon at the 2004 Games, has already been upgraded to a bronze in the 4×400 metres relay in Beijing thanks to the belated disqualification of the teams from Belarus and Russia.

She also finished fifth in the heptathlon in 2008 but has now climbed to third after the previously announced doping ban of Ukraine’s Lyudmila Blonska and now Chernova.


By Dimitri Kondonis.
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