List of stripped Olympic medals

The following is a list of stripped Olympic medals. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is the governing body of the Olympic Games, and as such, can rule athletes to have violated regulations of the Games, for which athletes' Olympic medals can be stripped (i.e., rescinded). Additionally, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has arbitral jurisdiction over all matters related to the Olympic Games and thus also has the power to strip or return medals. Stripped medals must be returned to the IOC by the offending athlete or team, and may only be reinstated by the IOC or CAS.

The vast majority of stripped medals are for doping infractions. Doping infractions are often discovered well after the fact, and can result in the stripping of medals many years after their award. On rare occasions, medals are stripped for other reasons.

Record

In the case of team events, the rule was revised in March 2003 so that the IOC can strip medals from a team based on infractions by a single team member. ^[1] In the table below, for stripped team medals, the athlete(s) in violation are shown in parentheses. The international governing body of each Olympic sport can also strip athletes of medals for infractions of the rules of the sport, though decisions ultimately must be ratified by the IOC.

From November 1905 to December 2022, a total of 159 medals have been stripped, with 9 medals declared vacant (rather than being reallocated) after being stripped. The vast majority of these have occurred since 2000 due to improved drug testing methods, with only 20 stripped medals for pre-2000 editions of the Olympic Games.

The majority of medals have been stripped in athletics (53, including 21 gold medals) and weightlifting (52, including 15 gold medals). The country with the most stripped medals is Russia (and Russian associated teams), with 49, more than four times the number of the next highest, and more than 30% of the total. The Post-Soviet states account for more than 60% of the overall total.

Though no athletes were caught doping at the 1980 Summer Olympics, it has been claimed that athletes had begun using testosterone and other drugs for which tests had not yet been developed. A 1989 report by a committee of the Australian Senate claimed that "there is hardly a medal winner at the Moscow Games, certainly not a gold medal winner...who is not on one sort of drug or another: usually several kinds. The Moscow Games might well have been called the Chemists' Games". ^[2]

A member of the IOC Medical Commission, Manfred Donike, privately ran additional tests with a new technique for identifying abnormal levels of testosterone by measuring its ratio to epitestosterone in urine. Twenty percent of the specimens he tested, including those from sixteen gold medalists, would have resulted in disciplinary proceedings had the tests been official. The results of Donike's unofficial tests later convinced the IOC to add his new technique to their testing protocols. ^[3] The first documented case of "blood doping" occurred at the 1980 Summer Olympics as a runner was transfused with two pints of blood before winning medals in the 5000 m and 10,000 m. ^[4]

Among particular Olympic Games, the 2008 Summer Olympics has the most stripped medals, at 50. Among Winter Olympics, the 2002 Winter Olympics has the most medals stripped with 13, three quarters of the Winter Olympics total.

All but eleven of the stripped medals involve infractions stemming from doping and drug testing:

• Jack Egan won two medals in boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics, a silver medal in the lightweight category losing to Harry Spanjer in the final and a tied bronze medal in the welterweight category against fellow American boxer, Joseph Lydon. By the rules of the AAU it was illegal to fight under an assumed name. (Egan's actual name was Frank Joseph Floyd.) In November 1905 the AAU disqualified Egan from all AAU competitions and he had to return all his prizes including his two Olympics medals. ^{[5] [6]}
• Jim Thorpe was stripped of his two gold medals by the International Olympic Committee in 1913, after the IOC learned that Thorpe had taken expense money for playing baseball before the 1912 Games, violating Olympic amateurism rules that had been in place at the time. In 1982, 29 years after his death, the IOC was convinced that the disqualification had been improper, as no protest against Thorpe's eligibility had been brought within the required 30 days, and reinstated Thorpe's medals, with replicas presented to his children. ^[7]
• The Swedish dressage team, which had originally won gold at the 1948 Games, was subsequently disqualified on April 27, 1949 by the Fédération Équestre Internationale (FEI) and with the approval of the IOC. Gehnäll Persson had been promoted to lieutenant three weeks before the competition. Just two and a half weeks after the competition, the Swedish army demoted him back to sergeant. According to the regulations at the time, only officers and “gentlemen riders” were eligible to take part, but not non-commissioned officers. Since Persson had only been promoted for the period surrounding the games, this was considered a violation of the rules. The incident led to the FEI modernizing its entry conditions, which were perceived as outdated. ^[8]
• Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler were stripped of their 1964 silver medal in figure skating for similar reasons to Thorpe, but had them reinstated in 1987. ^[9]
• Ingemar Johansson was disqualified from the gold medal fight in the 1952 heavyweight boxing competition after the referee deemed that he was "failing to show fight" to win the three-round match, and was subsequently deemed to have forfeited the minimum silver medal he would have won. Johansson said that he did not throw any punches at his opponent in the first two rounds to tire him out before releasing a barrage of punches in the third. He was eventually presented with his silver medal in 1982. ^[10]
• Ibragim Samadov of the 1992 Unified Team was stripped of his bronze medal after he "hurled his bronze medal to the floor" and "stormed off the stage during the awards ceremony." ^[11]
• Ara Abrahamian of Sweden was stripped of his bronze medal in 2008 for similar reasons to Samadov. ^[12]
• In 2010, China was stripped of a team gymnastics bronze medal from 2000 after Dong Fangxiao was found to have been underage at the time of the competition. ^[13]
• In 2022, the women's ski cross event results were revised nine days after the event and a week after the Games had ended, following an appeal by Fanny Smith, who was penalized for causing contact during the final. She replaced Daniela Maier for bronze upon the FIS appeal panel decision. The two athletes and their sporting federations later agreed to share third place and Maier's bronze medal was restored. ^{[14] [15]}

Some athletes have had medals taken away from them for different methods of cheating before physically getting on to the medal podium, such as American marathon runner Frederick Lorz at the 1904 Olympics and Swedish horse rider Bertil Sandström at the 1932 Olympics. These athletes are not included in the list as they were disqualified before physically receiving their medals, and in any case were never guaranteed to win them going in to the final round of competition. ^[16]

Russian wrestler Besik Kudukhov failed a drug test in 2016 from a sample taken when he competed in the 60 kg freestyle wrestling event at the 2012 Olympics. However, as Kudukhov had died in a car accident three years earlier, his medal was retained.

In the case of Rick DeMont, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) recognized his gold medal performance in the 1972 Summer Olympics in 2001, ^[17] but only the IOC has the power to restore his medal, and it has, as of 2021, refused to do so. DeMont originally won the gold medal in the 400m freestyle, but the International Olympic Committee (IOC) stripped him of his gold medal ^[18] after his post-race urinalysis tested positive for traces of the banned substance ephedrine contained in his prescription asthma medication, Marax. The positive test also deprived him of a chance at multiple medals, as he was not permitted to swim in any other events at the 1972 Olympics, including the 1,500-meter freestyle for which he was the then-current world record-holder. Before the Olympics, DeMont had properly declared his asthma medications on his medical disclosure forms, but the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) had not cleared them with the IOC's medical committee. ^[19]

List of stripped Olympic medals

• This is the list of Olympic medals stripped by the IOC, the governing body of the Olympics.
• Stripped team medals are counted once each, regardless of the size of the team stripped, and regardless of how many team members were disqualified, although a stripped team medal usually entails the return of multiple physical medals, one per team member.
• Unless otherwise indicated by a footnote, a stripped team medal means the whole team in question was disqualified entirely from the event, even if for infractions by a subset of its members
• (X) medal declared vacant (9 times)
• (Y) medal yet to be reallocated or declared vacant (2 times)
• (Z) not due to doping (11 times); all others were due to doping offenses

Olympics	Athlete	Country	Medal	Event	Ref
1904 Summer Olympics	Jack Egan	United States		Boxing, Men's Lightweight (Z)	[5] [6]
				Boxing, Men's Weltweight (Z)
1948 Summer Olympics	Equestrian team (Gehnäll Persson)	Sweden		Equestrian, Team dressage (Z)	[8]
1968 Summer Olympics	Modern Pentathlon team (Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall)	Sweden		Modern pentathlon, Team	[20]
1972 Summer Olympics	Bakhvain Buyadaa	Mongolia		Judo, Men's 63 kg (X)	[21]
	Cycling team (Aad van den Hoek)	Netherlands		Cycling, Men's team time trial (X)	[22]
	Jaime Huélamo	Spain		Cycling, Men's individual road race (X)	[22]
	Rick DeMont	United States		Swimming, Men's 400 m freestyle	[17]
1976 Winter Olympics	Galina Kulakova	Soviet Union		Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 5 km	[23]
1976 Summer Olympics	Valentin Khristov	Bulgaria		Weightlifting, Men's 110 kg	[24]
	Blagoy Blagoev			Weightlifting, Men's 82.5 kg	[25]
	Zbigniew Kaczmarek	Poland		Weightlifting, Men's 67.5 kg	[26]
1984 Summer Olympics	Martti Vainio	Finland		Athletics, Men's 10,000 m	[27]
	Tomas Johansson	Sweden		Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman +100 kg	[28]
1988 Summer Olympics	Mitko Grablev	Bulgaria		Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg	[29]
	Angel Guenchev			Weightlifting, Men's 67.5 kg	[29]
	Ben Johnson	Canada		Athletics, Men's 100 m	[30]
	Andor Szanyi	Hungary		Weightlifting, Men's 100 kg	[31]
	Kerrith Brown	Great Britain		Judo, Men's 71 kg	[32]
1992 Summer Olympics	Ibragim Samadov	Unified Team		Weightlifting, Men's 82.5 kg (X, Z)	[11]
2000 Summer Olympics	Ashot Danielyan	Armenia		Weightlifting, Men's +105 kg	[33]
	Izabela Dragneva	Bulgaria		Weightlifting, Women's 48 kg	[34]
	Ivan Ivanov			Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg	[34]
	Sevdalin Minchev			Weightlifting, Men's 62 kg	[34]
	Gymnastics team (Dong Fangxiao)	China		Gymnastics, Women's artistic team all-around (Z)	[13]
	Alexander Leipold	Germany		Wrestling, Men's freestyle 76 kg	[35]
	Andreea Răducan	Romania		Gymnastics, Women's artistic individual all-around	[36]
	Marion Jones	United States		Athletics, Women's 100 m (X)	[37]
				Athletics, Women's 200 m	[37]
				Athletics, Women's long jump	[37]
	Relay team (Antonio Pettigrew, Jerome Young)			Athletics, Men's 4 × 400 m relay	[38]
	Lance Armstrong			Cycling, Men's road time trial (X)	[39]
2002 Winter Olympics	Alain Baxter	Great Britain		Alpine Skiing, Men's slalom	[40]
	Olga Danilova	Russia		Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit	[41]
				Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 10 km classical	[41]
	Larisa Lazutina			Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 30 km classical	[41] [42]
				Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 15 km freestyle mass start	[43]
				Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit	[43]
	Johann Mühlegg	Spain		Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 50 km classical	[41]
				Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 30 km freestyle	[44]
				Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 10 km + 10 km combined pursuit	[44]
2004 Summer Olympics	Ivan Tsikhan	Belarus		Athletics, Men's hammer throw (X)	[45]
	Iryna Yatchenko			Athletics, Women's discus throw	[45]
	Equestrian team [lower-alpha 1] (Goldfever horse; Ludger Beerbaum rider)	Germany		Equestrian, Team show jumping	[46]
	Leonidas Sabanis	Greece		Weightlifting, Men's 62 kg	[47]
	Adrián Annus	Hungary		Athletics, Men's hammer throw	[48]
	Róbert Fazekas			Athletics, Men's discus throw	[49]
	Ferenc Gyurkovics			Weightlifting, Men's 105 kg	[50]
	Waterford Crystal (horse; Cian O'Connor rider)	Ireland		Equestrian, Individual show jumping	[51]
	Irina Korzhanenko	Russia		Athletics, Women's shot put	[52]
	Svetlana Krivelyova			Athletics, Women's shot put (X)	[45]
	Oleg Perepetchenov			Weightlifting, Men's 77 kg	[53]
	Yuriy Bilonoh	Ukraine		Athletics, Men's shot put	[45]
	Rowing team (Olena Olefirenko)			Rowing, Women's quadruple sculls	[54]
	Tyler Hamilton	United States		Cycling, Men's road time trial	[55]
2006 Winter Olympics	Olga Pyleva	Russia		Biathlon, Women's individual	[56]
2008 Summer Olympics	Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan	Armenia		Weightlifting, Men's 69 kg	[57]
	Vitaliy Rahimov	Azerbaijan		Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg	[58]
	Rashid Ramzi	Bahrain		Athletics, Men's 1500 m	[59]
	Aksana Miankova	Belarus		Athletics, Women's hammer throw	[60]
	Natallia Mikhnevich			Athletics, Women's shot put	[60]
	Andrei Rybakou			Weightlifting, Men's 85 kg	[62]
	Andrei Mikhnevich			Athletics, Men's shot put	[63]
	Nastassia Novikava			Weightlifting, Women's 53 kg	[62]
	Nadzeya Ostapchuk			Athletics, Women's shot put	[64]
	Liu Chunhong	China		Weightlifting, Women's 69 kg	[64]
	Cao Lei			Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg	[64]
	Chen Xiexia			Weightlifting, Women's 48 kg	[64]
	Yarelys Barrios	Cuba		Athletics, Women's discus throw	[65]
	Hrysopiyi Devetzi	Greece		Athletics, Women's triple jump	[58]
	Davide Rebellin	Italy		Cycling, Men's road race	[66]
	Relay team (Nesta Carter)	Jamaica		Athletics, Men's 4 × 100 m relay	[67]
	Ilya Ilyin	Kazakhstan		Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg	[60]
	Irina Nekrassova			Weightlifting, Women's 63 kg	[58]
	Taimuraz Tigiyev			Wrestling, Men's freestyle 96 kg	[62]
	Mariya Grabovetskaya			Weightlifting, Women's +75 kg	[58]
	Asset Mambetov			Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg	[58]
	Kim Jong-su	North Korea		Shooting, Men's 50 m air pistol	[68]
				Shooting, Men's 10 m air pistol	[68] [69]
	Equestrian team [lower-alpha 2] (Camiro horse; Tony André Hansen rider)	Norway		Equestrian, team show jumping	[70]
	Relay team (Yuliya Chermoshanskaya)	Russia		Athletics, Women's 4 × 100 m relay	[71]
	Maria Abakumova			Athletics, Women's javelin throw	[72]
	Khasan Baroev			Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg	[58]
	Tatyana Lebedeva			Athletics, Women's triple jump	[67]
				Athletics, Women's long jump	[67]
	Relay team (Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Tatyana Firova)			Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 m relay	[57]
	Marina Shainova			Weightlifting, Women's 58 kg	[57]
	Khadzhimurat Akkaev			Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg	[58]
	Anna Chicherova			Athletics, Women's high jump	[75]
	Nadezhda Evstyukhina			Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg	[57]
	Dmitry Lapikov			Weightlifting, Men's 105 kg	[58]
	Tatyana Chernova			Athletics, Women's heptathlon	[76]
	Relay team (Denis Alexeev)			Athletics, Men's 4 × 400 m relay	[72]
	Yekaterina Volkova			Athletics, Women's 3000 m steeplechase	[62]
	Ara Abrahamian	Sweden		Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg (X, Z)	[77]
	Elvan Abeylegesse	Turkey		Athletics, Women's 5000 metres	[78]
				Athletics, Women's 10000 metres	[78]
	Sibel Özkan			Weightlifting, Women's 48 kg	[79]
	Lyudmyla Blonska	Ukraine		Athletics, Women's heptathlon	[80]
	Vasyl Fedoryshyn			Wrestling, Men's freestyle 60 kg	[81]
	Olha Korobka			Weightlifting, Women's +75 kg	[62]
	Nataliya Davydova			Weightlifting, Women's 69 kg	[58]
	Victoria Tereshchuk			Modern pentathlon, Women's modern pentathlon	[82]
	Denys Yurchenko			Athletics, Men's pole vault	[58]
	Artur Taymazov	Uzbekistan		Wrestling, Men's freestyle 120 kg	[81]
	Soslan Tigiev			Wrestling, Men's freestyle 74 kg	[62]
2012 Summer Olympics	Hripsime Khurshudyan	Armenia		Weightlifting, Women's +75 kg	[83]
	Valentin Hristov	Azerbaijan		Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg	[84]
	Nadzeya Ostapchuk	Belarus		Athletics, Women's shot put	[85]
	Iryna Kulesha			Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg	[83]
	Maryna Shkermankova			Weightlifting, Women's 69 kg	[87]
	Davit Modzmanashvili	Georgia		Wrestling, Men's freestyle 120 kg	[88]
	Zulfiya Chinshanlo	Kazakhstan		Weightlifting, Women's 53 kg	[87]
	Ilya Ilyin			Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg	[60]
	Maiya Maneza			Weightlifting, Women's 63 kg	[87]
	Svetlana Podobedova			Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg	[87]
	Jevgenij Shuklin	Lithuania		Canoeing, Men's C-1 200 m	[89]
	Anatolie Cîrîcu	Moldova		Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg	[83]
	Cristina Iovu			Weightlifting, Women's 53 kg	[83]
	Răzvan Martin	Romania		Weightlifting, Men's 69 kg	[90]
	Roxana Cocoș			Weightlifting, Women's 69 kg	[91]
	Natalya Antyukh	Russia		Athletics, Women's 400 m hurdles	[92]
	Sergey Kirdyapkin			Athletics, Men's 50 km walk	[93]
	Elena Lashmanova			Athletics, Women's 20 km walk	[94] [95]
	Ivan Ukhov			Athletics, Men's high jump	[96]
	Tatyana Lysenko			Athletics, Women's hammer throw	[97]
	Mariya Savinova			Athletics, Women's 800 m	[98] [99]
	Yuliya Zaripova			Athletics, Women's 3000 m steeplechase	[100] [83]
	Apti Aukhadov			Weightlifting, Men's 85 kg	[101]
	Aleksandr Ivanov			Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg	[83]
	Olga Kaniskina			Athletics, Women's 20 km walk	[102]
	Yevgeniya Kolodko			Athletics, Women's shot put	[103]
	Darya Pishchalnikova			Athletics, Women's discus throw	[104]
	Relay team (Antonina Krivoshapka, Yulia Gushchina, Tatyana Firova, Natalya Antyukh)			Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 m relay	[105] [106] [107]
	Svetlana Tsarukaeva			Weightlifting, Women's 63 kg	[81]
	Natalya Zabolotnaya			Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg	[83]
	Tatyana Chernova			Athletics, Women's heptathlon	[108]
	Svetlana Shkolina			Athletics, Women's high jump	[109]
	Ruslan Albegov			Weightlifting, Men's +105 kg	[110]
	Asli Cakir Alptekin	Turkey		Athletics, Women's 1500 m	[111]
	Gamze Bulut			Athletics, Women's 1500 m	[78]
	Relay team (Tyson Gay)	United States		Athletics, Men's 4 × 100 m relay	[112]
	Oleksiy Torokhtiy	Ukraine		Weightlifting, Men's 105 kg	[113]
	Oleksandr Pyatnytsya			Athletics, Men's javelin throw	[114]
	Yuliya Kalina			Weightlifting, Women's 58 kg	[115]
	Artur Taymazov	Uzbekistan		Wrestling, Men's freestyle 120 kg	[116]
	Soslan Tigiev			Wrestling, Men's freestyle 74 kg	[117]
2014 Winter Olympics	Two-man (Alexandr Zubkov, Alexey Voyevoda)	Russia		Bobsleigh, Two-man	[118] [119] [120]
	Four-man (Alexandr Zubkov, Alexey Voyevoda)			Bobsleigh, Four-man
	Relay team (Evgeny Ustyugov)			Biathlon, Men's relay (Y)	[121]
	Relay team (Olga Zaitseva)			Biathlon, Women's relay	[119]
2016 Summer Olympics	Nijat Rahimov	Kazakhstan		Weightlifting, Men's 77 kg (Y)	[122] [123]
	Izzat Artykov	Kyrgyzstan		Weightlifting, Men's 69 kg	[124]
	Serghei Tarnovschi	Moldova		Canoeing, Men's C-1 1000 m	[125]
	Gabriel Sîncrăian	Romania		Weightlifting, Men's 85 kg	[126]
	Mikhail Aloyan	Russia		Boxing, Men's flyweight	[126]
2018 Winter Olympics	Curling team (Aleksandr Krushelnitckii)	Olympic Athletes from Russia		Curling, Mixed doubles	[127]
2020 Summer Olympics	Relay team (Chijindu Ujah)	Great Britain		Athletics, Men's 4 x 100 m relay	[128]
2022 Winter Olympics	Figure skating team (Kamila Valieva) [lower-alpha 3]	ROC		Figure skating, team event	[129] [130] [131]

List of Olympic medals stripped and later returned

Here is the list of Olympic medals that were stripped by the IOC and later returned by the IOC.

Olympics	Athlete	Country	Medal	Event	Ref
1912 Summer Olympics	Jim Thorpe	United States		Athletics, Men's pentathlon (Z)	[7]
				Athletics, Men's decathlon (Z)	[7]
1952 Summer Olympics	Ingemar Johansson	Sweden		Boxing, Men's heavyweight (Z)	[132]
1964 Winter Olympics	Marika Kilius, Hans-Jürgen Bäumler	Germany		Figure skating, Pairs (Z)	[9]
1998 Winter Olympics	Ross Rebagliati	Canada		Snowboarding, Men's giant slalom	[133]
2000 Summer Olympics	Relay team (except Marion Jones)	United States		Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 m relay	[134]
	Relay team (except Marion Jones)			Athletics, Women's 4 × 100 m relay	[134]
2004 Summer Olympics	María Luisa Calle	Colombia		Cycling, Women's points race	[135]
2008 Summer Olympics	Vadim Devyatovskiy	Belarus		Athletics, Men's hammer throw	[136]
	Ivan Tsikhan			Athletics, Men's hammer throw	[136]
2014 Winter Olympics	Alexander Legkov	Russia		Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 50 km freestyle	[137]
	Aleksandr Tretyakov			Skeleton, Men's individual	[137]
	Relay team (Alexander Legkov, Maxim Vylegzhanin, Alexander Bessmertnykh)			Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 4 x 10 km relay	[137]
	Maksim Vylegzhanin			Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 50 km freestyle	[137]
	Relay team (Maxim Vylegzhanin, Nikita Kryukov)			Cross-Country Skiing, Men's team sprint	[137]
	Olga Vilukhina			Biathlon, Women's sprint	[138]
	Olga Fatkulina			Speed Skating, Women's 500 m	[137]
	Albert Demchenko			Luge, Men's singles	[137]
	Relay team (Albert Demchenko, Tatiana Ivanova)			Luge, Team relay	[137]
	Elena Nikitina			Skeleton, Women's individual	[137]
	Nicklas Bäckström	Sweden		Ice hockey, Men's tournament	[139]
2022 Winter Olympics	Daniela Maier [lower-alpha 4] [140] [141]	Germany		Freestyle skiing, Women's ski cross (Z)	[15]

Stripped, returned, and then stripped

Gold medals for the 2000 Olympic men's 4 × 400 metres relay were awarded to the U.S. squad of Jerome Young, Michael Johnson, Antonio Pettigrew, Angelo Taylor, Alvin Harrison and Calvin Harrison. In 2004, after Young (who ran in the heats) was retroactively banned from 1999 to 2001, all six were stripped of their medals. ^{[142] [143]}

In 2005, the Court of Arbitration for Sport restored the medals of the remaining five due to the fact that, according to the rules of the time, a team should not be disqualified because of a doping offense of an athlete who did not compete in the finals, but in 2008, Pettigrew admitted to the use of doping from 1997 to 2003, meaning that the team was disqualified. ^{[38] [144]}

Medals stripped by country

A total of 38 countries/teams have had medals stripped, counting separately from Russia the former Soviet Union, the Unified Team of 1992, Olympic Athletes from Russia team of 2018, and the Russian Olympic Committee team of 2022. In total, 97 (61%) of all medals stripped are from former Soviet states.

Stripped medals by country
Country				Total
Russia  (RUS)	14	20	12	46
Ukraine  (UKR)	2	4	5	11
Belarus  (BLR)	2	3	6	11
Kazakhstan  (KAZ)	6	2	2	10
United States  (USA)	5	2	3	10
Bulgaria  (BUL)	4	2	1	7
Turkey  (TUR)	1	4	0	5
China  (CHN)	3	0	1	4
Spain  (ESP)	3	0	1	4
Hungary  (HUN)	2	2	0	4
Uzbekistan  (UZB)	2	1	1	4
Romania  (ROM)	1	1	2	4
Sweden  (SWE)	1	1	2	4
Great Britain  (GBR)	0	1	2	3
Armenia  (ARM)	0	0	3	3
Moldova  (MDA)	0	0	3	3
Germany  (GER)	2	0	0	2
Azerbaijan  (AZE)	0	1	1	2
North Korea  (PRK)	0	1	1	2
Greece  (GRE)	0	0	2	2
Bahrain  (BRN)	1	0	0	1
Canada  (CAN)	1	0	0	1
Ireland  (IRL)	1	0	0	1
Jamaica  (JAM)	1	0	0	1
Poland  (POL)	1	0	0	1
ROC	1	0	0	1
Cuba  (CUB)	0	1	0	1
Finland  (FIN)	0	1	0	1
Georgia  (GEO)	0	1	0	1
Italy  (ITA)	0	1	0	1
Lithuania  (LTU)	0	1	0	1
Mongolia  (MGL)	0	1	0	1
Kyrgyzstan  (KGZ)	0	0	1	1
Netherlands  (NED)	0	0	1	1
Norway  (NOR)	0	0	1	1
Olympic Athletes from Russia  (OAR)	0	0	1	1
Soviet Union  (URS)	0	0	1	1
Unified Team  (EUN)	0	0	1	1
Total	54	51	54	159

Medals stripped by gender

Men have had more medals stripped overall. Men have also had more gold and bronze medals stripped, but women have had more silver medals stripped. However, based on percentages men and women have had medals stripped at similar rates.

Mixed events will be classed in the table below on which gender caused the medal to be stripped. If both genders contribute to the medal being stripped, then it should be added to both tallies. Note that Marion Jones' stripped relay medals are not counted.

Stripped medals by gender
Gender				Total	Percentage
Male	31	25	31	87	55%
Female	23	26	23	72	45%
Total	54	51	54	159	100%

Medals stripped by sport

A total of 19 different sports have had medals stripped: 13 from the Summer Olympics and 6 from the Winter Olympics. Athletics and weightlifting have had by far the greatest numbers of medals stripped compared to any other sport; consequently, the vast majority of stripped medals are for Summer Olympics sports, with only 17 stripped medals for Winter Olympics sports, of which cross-country skiing has the majority, 9.

Stripped medals by sport
Sport				Total
Athletics	21	19	13	53
Weightlifting	15	14	23	52
Wrestling	3	7	3	13
Cross-country skiing	5	3	1	9
Cycling	1	1	3	5
Equestrian	3	0	1	4
Biathlon	1	2	0	3
Boxing	0	2	1	3
Bobsleigh	2	0	0	2
Gymnastics	1	0	1	2
Canoeing	0	1	1	2
Judo	0	1	1	2
Shooting	0	1	1	2
Modern pentathlon	0	0	2	2
Figure skating	1	0	0	1
Swimming	1	0	0	1
Alpine skiing	0	0	1	1
Curling	0	0	1	1
Rowing	0	0	1	1
Total	54	51	54	159

See also

• All-time Olympic Games medal table
• Doping at the Olympic Games
• List of doping cases in sport

Notes

1. The German team was not disqualified, but with Beerbaum's score excluded, it dropped from gold medalist to bronze medalist.
2. The Norwegian team was not disqualified, but with Hansen's score excluded, it dropped from bronze medalist to tenth.
3. The CAS ruling explicitly stripped Valieva's medal. The rest of the ROC team was not disqualified, but without Valieva's scores, their medal was downgraded from gold to bronze.
4. During the women's ski cross final, Fanny Smith (SUI) was penalised for interference that automatically demoted her in the final, and filed an appeal. The FIS announced on 26 February 2022 the close proximity of the incident in question with multiple participants resulted in the penalty being rescinded and demoted to an official warning, with results revised. On 13 December 2022, after further consultation with both affected skiiers and their federations, the result was changed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport where both competitors in question were awarded duplicate bronze medals.

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