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can rule athletes to have violated regulations of the Games, for which athletes' Olympic medals can be stripped (i.e., rescinded).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
From November 1905 to November 2024, a total of 162 medals have been stripped, with nine medals declared vacant (rather than being reallocated) after being rescinded. The vast majority of these have occurred since 2000 due to improved drug testing methods, with only 20 stripped medals coming from pre-2000 editions of the Olympic Games.
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. 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.
The majority of medals have been stripped in athletics (54, 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 53, more than four times the number of the next highest, and 33% of the total. The Post-Soviet states account for 61% 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".
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. 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.
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 twelve of the stripped medals involve infractions stemming from doping and drug testing; the exceptions are listed below:
- 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.
- Jim Thorpe was stripped of his two gold medals by the IOC 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- Ara Abrahamian of Sweden was stripped of his bronze medal in 2008 for similar reasons to Samadov.
- 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.
- 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.
- In 2024, Jordan Chiles was initially awarded bronze in the floor exercise final. Although Chiles's initial score was not high enough to earn a medal, officials adjusted her score following an appeal from Chiles's coach after determining that Chiles's difficulty score should be raised by one-tenth. Chiles's revised score placed her in third place, earning a bronze medal. The Romanian Gymnastics Federation appealed this decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which ruled that Chiles's coach had made the appeal not within the allowed minute (specifically, four seconds late). In response to the ruling, the International Gymnastics Federation reinstated Chiles's initial score, putting her in fifth place, and reinstated Romanian gymnast Ana Bărbosu to third place. On August 11, the International Olympic Committee announced that the bronze medal in the floor exercise would go to Bărbosu, thus leaving Chiles without an individual Olympic medal.
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.
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, but only the IOC has the power to restore his medal, and it has, as of 2024, refused to do so. DeMont originally won the gold medal in the 400m freestyle swimming, but the International Olympic Committee (IOC) stripped him of his gold medal 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.
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 or 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 entire team in question was disqualified entirely from the event, even if for infractions by a subset of its members.
- (X) medal declared vacant (10 medals) – Reasons include prospective medal recipients committing doping offenses outside the Games (5) or not having been tested for drugs at the competition (2); unsportsmanlike behavior that did not occur in the context of competition (2); and judo's structure of two bronze medalists per event (1).
- (Y) medal yet to be reallocated (5 medals)
- (Z) not due to doping (12 medals)
| Olympics | Athlete(s) | Country | Medal | Event | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 Summer Olympics | Jack Egan | United States | Boxing, Men's Lightweight (Z) | ||
| Boxing, Men's Welterweight (Z) | |||||
| 1948 Summer Olympics | Equestrian team (Gehnäll Persson) | Sweden | Equestrian, Team dressage (Z) | ||
| 1968 Summer Olympics | Modern Pentathlon team (Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall) | Sweden | Modern pentathlon, Team | ||
| 1972 Summer Olympics | Bakhvain Buyadaa | Mongolia | Judo, Men's 63 kg (X) | ||
| Cycling team (Aad van den Hoek) | Netherlands | Cycling, Men's team time trial (X) | |||
| Jaime Huélamo | Spain | Cycling, Men's individual road race (X) | |||
| Rick DeMont | United States | Swimming, Men's 400 m freestyle | |||
| 1976 Winter Olympics | Galina Kulakova | Soviet Union | Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 5 km | ||
| 1976 Summer Olympics | Valentin Khristov | Bulgaria | Weightlifting, Men's 110 kg | ||
| Blagoy Blagoev | Weightlifting, Men's 82.5 kg | ||||
| Zbigniew Kaczmarek | Poland | Weightlifting, Men's 67.5 kg | |||
| 1984 Summer Olympics | Martti Vainio | Finland | Athletics, Men's 10,000 m | ||
| Tomas Johansson | Sweden | Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman +100 kg | |||
| 1988 Summer Olympics | Mitko Grablev | Bulgaria | Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg | ||
| Angel Guenchev | Weightlifting, Men's 67.5 kg | ||||
| Ben Johnson | Canada | Athletics, Men's 100 m | |||
| Andor Szanyi | Hungary | Weightlifting, Men's 100 kg | |||
| Kerrith Brown | Great Britain | Judo, Men's 71 kg | |||
| 1992 Summer Olympics | Ibragim Samadov | Unified Team | Weightlifting, Men's 82.5 kg (X, Z) | ||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | Ashot Danielyan | Armenia | Weightlifting, Men's +105 kg | ||
| Izabela Dragneva | Bulgaria | Weightlifting, Women's 48 kg | |||
| Ivan Ivanov | Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg | ||||
| Sevdalin Minchev | Weightlifting, Men's 62 kg | ||||
| Gymnastics team (Dong Fangxiao) | China | Gymnastics, Women's artistic team all-around (Z) | |||
| Alexander Leipold | Germany | Wrestling, Men's freestyle 76 kg | |||
| Andreea Răducan | Romania | Gymnastics, Women's artistic individual all-around | |||
| Marion Jones | United States | Athletics, Women's 100 m (X) | |||
| Athletics, Women's 200 m | |||||
| Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 metres relay | |||||
| Athletics, Women's 4 × 100 metres relay | |||||
| Athletics, Women's long jump | |||||
| Relay team (Antonio Pettigrew, Jerome Young) | Athletics, Men's 4 × 400 m relay | ||||
| Lance Armstrong | Cycling, Men's road time trial (X) | ||||
| 2002 Winter Olympics | Alain Baxter | Great Britain | Alpine Skiing, Men's slalom | ||
| Olga Danilova | Russia | Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit | |||
| Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 10 km classical | |||||
| Larisa Lazutina | Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 30 km classical | ||||
| Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 15 km freestyle mass start | |||||
| Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 5 km + 5 km combined pursuit | |||||
| Johann Mühlegg | Spain | Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 50 km classical | |||
| Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 30 km freestyle | |||||
| Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 10 km + 10 km combined pursuit | |||||
| 2004 Summer Olympics | Ivan Tsikhan | Belarus | Athletics, Men's hammer throw (X)–2 medals not awarded | ||
| Iryna Yatchenko | Athletics, Women's discus throw | ||||
| Equestrian team (Goldfever horse; Ludger Beerbaum rider) | Germany | Equestrian, Team show jumping | |||
| Leonidas Sabanis | Greece | Weightlifting, Men's 62 kg | |||
| Adrián Annus | Hungary | Athletics, Men's hammer throw | |||
| Róbert Fazekas | Athletics, Men's discus throw | ||||
| Ferenc Gyurkovics | Weightlifting, Men's 105 kg | ||||
| Waterford Crystal (horse; Cian O'Connor rider) | Ireland | Equestrian, Individual show jumping | |||
| Irina Korzhanenko | Russia | Athletics, Women's shot put | |||
| Svetlana Krivelyova | Athletics, Women's shot put (X) | ||||
| Oleg Perepetchenov | Weightlifting, Men's 77 kg | ||||
| Yuriy Bilonoh | Ukraine | Athletics, Men's shot put | |||
| Rowing team (Olena Olefirenko) | Rowing, Women's quadruple sculls | ||||
| Tyler Hamilton | United States | Cycling, Men's road time trial | |||
| 2006 Winter Olympics | Olga Pyleva | Russia | Biathlon, Women's individual | ||
| 2008 Summer Olympics | Tigran Gevorg Martirosyan | Armenia | Weightlifting, Men's 69 kg | ||
| Vitaliy Rahimov | Azerbaijan | Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg | |||
| Rashid Ramzi | Bahrain | Athletics, Men's 1500 m | |||
| Aksana Miankova | Belarus | Athletics, Women's hammer throw | |||
| Natallia Mikhnevich | Athletics, Women's shot put | ||||
| Andrei Rybakou | Weightlifting, Men's 85 kg | ||||
| Andrei Mikhnevich | Athletics, Men's shot put | ||||
| Nastassia Novikava | Weightlifting, Women's 53 kg | ||||
| Nadzeya Ostapchuk | Athletics, Women's shot put | ||||
| Liu Chunhong | China | Weightlifting, Women's 69 kg | |||
| Cao Lei | Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg | ||||
| Chen Xiexia | Weightlifting, Women's 48 kg | ||||
| Yarelys Barrios | Cuba | Athletics, Women's discus throw | |||
| Hrysopiyi Devetzi | Greece | Athletics, Women's triple jump | |||
| Davide Rebellin | Italy | Cycling, Men's road race | |||
| Relay team (Nesta Carter) | Jamaica | Athletics, Men's 4 × 100 m relay | |||
| Ilya Ilyin | Kazakhstan | Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg | |||
| Irina Nekrassova | Weightlifting, Women's 63 kg | ||||
| Taimuraz Tigiyev | Wrestling, Men's freestyle 96 kg | ||||
| Mariya Grabovetskaya | Weightlifting, Women's +75 kg | ||||
| Asset Mambetov | Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg | ||||
| Kim Jong-su | North Korea | Shooting, Men's 50 m air pistol | |||
| Shooting, Men's 10 m air pistol | |||||
| Equestrian team (Camiro horse; Tony André Hansen rider) | Norway | Equestrian, team show jumping | |||
| Relay team (Yuliya Chermoshanskaya) | Russia | Athletics, Women's 4 × 100 m relay | |||
| Maria Abakumova | Athletics, Women's javelin throw | ||||
| Khasan Baroev | Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg | ||||
| Tatyana Lebedeva | Athletics, Women's triple jump | ||||
| Athletics, Women's long jump | |||||
| Relay team (Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Tatyana Firova) | Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 m relay | ||||
| Marina Shainova | Weightlifting, Women's 58 kg | ||||
| Khadzhimurat Akkaev | Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg | ||||
| Anna Chicherova | Athletics, Women's high jump | ||||
| Nadezhda Evstyukhina | Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg | ||||
| Dmitry Lapikov | Weightlifting, Men's 105 kg | ||||
| Tatyana Chernova | Athletics, Women's heptathlon | ||||
| Relay team (Denis Alexeev) | Athletics, Men's 4 × 400 m relay | ||||
| Yekaterina Volkova | Athletics, Women's 3000 m steeplechase | ||||
| Ara Abrahamian | Sweden | Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg (X, Z) | |||
| Elvan Abeylegesse | Turkey | Athletics, Women's 5000 metres | |||
| Athletics, Women's 10000 metres | |||||
| Sibel Özkan | Weightlifting, Women's 48 kg | ||||
| Lyudmyla Blonska | Ukraine | Athletics, Women's heptathlon | |||
| Vasyl Fedoryshyn | Wrestling, Men's freestyle 60 kg | ||||
| Olha Korobka | Weightlifting, Women's +75 kg | ||||
| Nataliya Davydova | Weightlifting, Women's 69 kg | ||||
| Victoria Tereshchuk | Modern pentathlon, Women's modern pentathlon | ||||
| Denys Yurchenko | Athletics, Men's pole vault | ||||
| Artur Taymazov | Uzbekistan | Wrestling, Men's freestyle 120 kg | |||
| Soslan Tigiev | Wrestling, Men's freestyle 74 kg | ||||
| 2010 Winter Olympics | Evgeny Ustyugov | Russia | Biathlon, Men's mass start | ||
| Relay team (Evgeny Ustyugov) | Biathlon, Men's relay | ||||
| 2012 Summer Olympics | Hripsime Khurshudyan | Armenia | Weightlifting, Women's +75 kg | ||
| Valentin Hristov | Azerbaijan | Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg | |||
| Nadzeya Ostapchuk | Belarus | Athletics, Women's shot put | |||
| Iryna Kulesha | Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg | ||||
| Maryna Shkermankova | Weightlifting, Women's 69 kg | ||||
| Davit Modzmanashvili | Georgia | Wrestling, Men's freestyle 120 kg | |||
| Zulfiya Chinshanlo | Kazakhstan | Weightlifting, Women's 53 kg | |||
| Ilya Ilyin | Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg | ||||
| Maiya Maneza | Weightlifting, Women's 63 kg | ||||
| Svetlana Podobedova | Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg | ||||
| Jevgenij Shuklin | Lithuania | Canoeing, Men's C-1 200 m | |||
| Anatolie Cîrîcu | Moldova | Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg | |||
| Cristina Iovu | Weightlifting, Women's 53 kg | ||||
| Răzvan Martin | Romania | Weightlifting, Men's 69 kg | |||
| Roxana Cocoș | Weightlifting, Women's 69 kg | ||||
| Natalya Antyukh | Russia | Athletics, Women's 400 m hurdles | |||
| Sergey Kirdyapkin | Athletics, Men's 50 km walk | ||||
| Elena Lashmanova | Athletics, Women's 20 km walk | ||||
| Ivan Ukhov | Athletics, Men's high jump | ||||
| Tatyana Lysenko | Athletics, Women's hammer throw | ||||
| Mariya Savinova | Athletics, Women's 800 m | ||||
| Yuliya Zaripova | Athletics, Women's 3000 m steeplechase | ||||
| Apti Aukhadov | Weightlifting, Men's 85 kg | ||||
| Aleksandr Ivanov | Weightlifting, Men's 94 kg | ||||
| Olga Kaniskina | Athletics, Women's 20 km walk | ||||
| Yevgeniya Kolodko | Athletics, Women's shot put | ||||
| Darya Pishchalnikova | Athletics, Women's discus throw | ||||
| Tatyana Tomashova | Athletics, Women's 1500 m | ||||
| Relay team (Antonina Krivoshapka, Yulia Gushchina, Tatyana Firova, Natalya Antyukh) | Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 m relay | ||||
| Svetlana Tsarukaeva | Weightlifting, Women's 63 kg | ||||
| Natalya Zabolotnaya | Weightlifting, Women's 75 kg | ||||
| Tatyana Chernova | Athletics, Women's heptathlon | ||||
| Ekaterina Guliyev | Athletics, Women's 800 m (Y)–2 medals to be allocated | ||||
| Svetlana Shkolina | Athletics, Women's high jump | ||||
| Ruslan Albegov | Weightlifting, Men's +105 kg | ||||
| Asli Cakir Alptekin | Turkey | Athletics, Women's 1500 m | |||
| Gamze Bulut | Athletics, Women's 1500 m | ||||
| Relay team (Tyson Gay) | United States | Athletics, Men's 4 × 100 m relay | |||
| Oleksiy Torokhtiy | Ukraine | Weightlifting, Men's 105 kg | |||
| Oleksandr Pyatnytsya | Athletics, Men's javelin throw | ||||
| Yuliya Kalina | Weightlifting, Women's 58 kg | ||||
| Artur Taymazov | Uzbekistan | Wrestling, Men's freestyle 120 kg | |||
| Soslan Tigiev | Wrestling, Men's freestyle 74 kg | ||||
| 2014 Winter Olympics | Two-man (Alexandr Zubkov, Alexey Voyevoda) | Russia | Bobsleigh, Two-man | ||
| Four-man (Alexandr Zubkov, Alexey Voyevoda) | Bobsleigh, Four-man | ||||
| Relay team (Evgeny Ustyugov) | Biathlon, Men's relay | ||||
| Relay team (Olga Zaitseva) | Biathlon, Women's relay | ||||
| 2016 Summer Olympics | Nijat Rahimov | Kazakhstan | Weightlifting, Men's 77 kg (Y)–3 medals to be allocated | ||
| Izzat Artykov | Kyrgyzstan | Weightlifting, Men's 69 kg | |||
| Serghei Tarnovschi | Moldova | Canoeing, Men's C-1 1000 m | |||
| Gabriel Sîncrăian | Romania | Weightlifting, Men's 85 kg | |||
| Mikhail Aloyan | Russia | Boxing, Men's flyweight | |||
| 2018 Winter Olympics | Curling team (Aleksandr Krushelnitckii) | Olympic Athletes from Russia | Curling, Mixed doubles | ||
| 2020 Summer Olympics | Relay team (Chijindu Ujah) | Great Britain | Athletics, Men's 4 x 100 m relay | ||
| 2022 Winter Olympics | Figure skating team (Kamila Valieva) | ROC | Figure skating, team event | ||
| 2024 Summer Olympics | Jordan Chiles | United States | Gymnastics, Women's floor (Z) |
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) | ||
| Athletics, Men's decathlon (Z) | |||||
| 1952 Summer Olympics | Ingemar Johansson | Sweden | Boxing, Men's heavyweight (Z) | ||
| 1964 Winter Olympics | Marika Kilius, Hans-Jürgen Bäumler | Germany | Figure skating, Pairs (Z) | ||
| 1998 Winter Olympics | Ross Rebagliati | Canada | Snowboarding, Men's giant slalom | ||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | Relay team (except Marion Jones) | United States | Athletics, Women's 4 × 400 m relay | ||
| Relay team (except Marion Jones) | Athletics, Women's 4 × 100 m relay | ||||
| 2004 Summer Olympics | María Luisa Calle | Colombia | Cycling, Women's points race | ||
| 2008 Summer Olympics | Vadim Devyatovskiy | Belarus | Athletics, Men's hammer throw | ||
| Ivan Tsikhan | Athletics, Men's hammer throw | ||||
| 2014 Winter Olympics | Alexander Legkov | Russia | Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 50 km freestyle | ||
| Aleksandr Tretyakov | Skeleton, Men's individual | ||||
| Relay team (Alexander Legkov, Maxim Vylegzhanin, Alexander Bessmertnykh) | Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 4 x 10 km relay | ||||
| Maksim Vylegzhanin | Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 50 km freestyle | ||||
| Relay team (Maxim Vylegzhanin, Nikita Kryukov) | Cross-Country Skiing, Men's team sprint | ||||
| Olga Vilukhina | Biathlon, Women's sprint | ||||
| Olga Fatkulina | Speed Skating, Women's 500 m | ||||
| Albert Demchenko | Luge, Men's singles | ||||
| Relay team (Albert Demchenko, Tatiana Ivanova) | Luge, Team relay | ||||
| Elena Nikitina | Skeleton, Women's individual | ||||
| Nicklas Bäckström | Sweden | Ice hockey, Men's tournament | |||
| 2022 Winter Olympics | Daniela Maier | Germany | Freestyle skiing, Women's ski cross (Z) |
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.
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.
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, 99 (61%) of all medals stripped are from former Soviet states.
| Stripped medals by country | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Total | |||
| Russia | 15 | 21 | 13 | 49 |
| United States | 6 | 2 | 5 | 13 |
| Ukraine | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
| Belarus | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 |
| Kazakhstan | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| Bulgaria | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Turkey | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| China | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Spain | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Hungary | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Uzbekistan | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Romania | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Armenia | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Moldova | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Germany | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Azerbaijan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| North Korea | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Greece | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Canada | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ireland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Poland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| ROC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Cuba | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Finland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Georgia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Italy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Lithuania | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mongolia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Norway | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Olympic Athletes from Russia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Soviet Union | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Unified Team | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 55 | 52 | 55 | 162 |
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 | 32 | 25 | 32 | 89 | 54.9% |
| Female | 23 | 27 | 23 | 73 | 45.1% |
| Total | 55 | 52 | 55 | 162 | 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 | 20 | 13 | 54 |
| Weightlifting | 15 | 14 | 23 | 52 |
| Wrestling | 3 | 7 | 3 | 13 |
| Cross-country skiing | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| Biathlon | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Cycling | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Equestrian | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 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 | 55 | 52 | 55 | 162 |
See also
- All-time Olympic Games medal table
- Doping at the Olympic Games
- List of doping cases in sport
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