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Nevin Yanıt
Nevin Yanıt (born 16 February 1986) is a Turkish former sprinter specializing in high hurdling. On 29 August 2013, Yanit was banned from athletic competition for two years following a failed doping test in February 2013.[2][3] After IAAF appealed the length of the ban to the Court of Arbitration for sport, her ban was extended for a further year.[4] Biography Yanıt won the 100m hurdles at the 2007 European Under 23 Athletics Championships. She won the silver medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand.[5] At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, she reached the semi-finals in the 100m hurdles.[citation needed] Yanıt participated at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara, Italy and won the gold medal in women's 100 m hurdles. She won the 100 m hurdles at the European Cup First League Group B on June 18, 2006 in Thessaloniki, Greece.[citation needed] At the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona, she won the gold medal in the 100m hurdles, edging favourites, Derval O'Rourke and Carolin Nytra.[citation needed] At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she progressed to the final in the 100 m hurdles, taking fifth place-a result she of which she was later stripped.[citation needed] At the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, she won the gold medal-a medal of which she was later stripped.[citation needed] Doping banIn 2013 the Turkish Athletics Federation announced that Yanit had failed a doping test, after traces of testosterone and the anabolic steroid Stanozolol were found in a testing sample. On 29 August 2013, a two-year ban was handed down by the Turkish Federation, precluding Yanit from competition until 5 August 2015. Following IAAF's appeal to the Court of Arbitration for sport, her ban was extended to 3 years for aggravating circumstances. In addition to the positive for two prohibited substances her biological passport data showed that she had been blood doping between June 2012 and February 2013.[4] The IAAF later confirmed that her results since 28 June 2012 had all been voided and she was stripped of her European Championship title and 5th-place finish at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[6] Personal lifeYanıt competed between 2007-2008 for Vestel Athletics.[7] In 2008, she joined Fenerbahçe Athletics.[citation needed] She majored in Physical Education at Mersin University,[5][8] In 2011, an athletics venue in Mersin with 4,500 seating capacity, built in 2010, was named in her honor.[9] Achievements
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