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Russian athlete

Natalya Nikolayevna Antyukh (Наталья Николаевна Антюх, born 26 June 1981) is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres and 400 metres hurdles. She won the bronze medal in the 400 metres and a silver for the 4 × 400 m relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She is currently serving a four year suspension from 2021 to 2025 for anti doping rule violations. Her results from 15 July 2012 onwards had been disqualified, including her 2012 Olympic gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles. According to World Athletics, she last competed in 2016.

Her younger brother Kirill Antyukh is a former competitive sprinter, who turned to bobsleigh, and was part of the reserve Russian squad for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Leading up to the 2004 Summer Olympics, Antyukh achieved a personal best time of 49.85 seconds in the 400 metres at the year's Russian Championships in Tula to place second. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, she won the bronze medal in the 400 metres with a time of 49.89 seconds, which was 0.48 seconds slower than gold medalist Tonique Williams Darling of the Bahamas. Four days later, she won the silver medal for the 4×400 m relay with a final relay time of 3:20.16. Six years later, at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, Spain, she won the gold medal in the 400 metre hurdles with a personal best time of 52.92 seconds.

On 8 August 2012, Antyukh, then 31 years old, won the gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, with a personal best time of 52.70 seconds. Three days later, she won the silver medal for the 4×400 m relay, helping finish in a time of 3 minutes, 20.23 seconds. She received the Russian Order of Honour after the Olympics for her performances.

In 2016, Antyukh's silver medal in the 4×400 m relay from the 2012 Olympic Games was stripped, with medals reallocated to relay teams from Jamaica (silver) and Ukraine (bronze), after teammate Antonina Krivoshapka had her results from the event disqualified. In 2019, all Russians, including Antyukh, were banned by the World Anti Doping Agency from competing in international track and field events representing Russia for a four year period.

In 2020, Antyukh was among four Russian track and field athletes charged with doping offences, facing charges of using a prohibited substance or method. The Athletics Integrity Unit said the cases were based on an investigation into Russian doping for the World Anti Doping Agency presented in 2016 by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren. Her ban was confirmed on 7 April 2021 by the Court of Arbitration for Sport when she was suspended from athletics for four years, to 2025, with all her results from 30 June 2013 onwards disqualified. The stripping of her gold medal marked the attainment of stripping all Russians who won a gold medal in track at the 2012 Summer Olympics of their gold medal(s). In addition to being banned for anti doping rule violations, Antyukh, along with all other Russian and Belarusian athletes, was subjected to another ban starting 1 March 2022, which excluded her from all World Athletics competitions with no communicated end date and was implemented in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, part of the ongoing Russo Ukrainian War that began in 2014.

All information from World Athletics profile.

1998World Youth GamesMoscow, Russia1st400 m hurdles59.942001World ChampionshipsEdmonton, Canada30th (h)400 m52.712002European Indoor ChampionshipsVienna, Austria1st400 metres51.65European ChampionshipsMunich, Germany2nd4 × 400 m relay3:25.592003World Indoor ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom1st4 × 400 m relay3:28.452004World Indoor ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary1st4 × 400 m relay3:31.27Olympic GamesAthens, Greece3rd400 metres49.892nd4 × 400 m relay3:20.162005World ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland10th (sf)400 m50.991st4 × 400 m relay3:20.952006World Indoor ChampionshipsMoscow, Russia1st4 × 400 m relay3:24.912007European Indoor ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom2nd4 × 400 m relay3:28.16World ChampionshipsOsaka, Japan6th400 m50.334th4 × 400 m relay3:20.252009European Indoor ChampionshipsTurin, Italy4th400 m52.371st4 × 400 m relay3:29.12World ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany6th400 m hurdles54.11DQ4 × 400 m relay3:23.802010European ChampionshipsBarcelona, Spain1st400 m hurdles52.922011World ChampionshipsDaegu, South Korea3rd400 m hurdles53.85DQ4 × 400 m relay3:19.362012Olympic GamesLondon, United KingdomDQ400 m hurdles52.70DQ4 × 400 m relay3:20.232013World ChampionshipsMoscow, RussiaDQ400 m hurdles55.55DQ4 × 400 m relay3:23.51

200 metres – 22.75 ( 0.2 m/s, Tula 2004)
400 metres – 49.85 (Tula 2004)
400 metres indoor – 50.37 (Moscow 2006)
400 m hurdles – 52.92 (Barcelona 2010)