Yuliya Stepanova

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yuliya Stepanova
Occupation	Athletics Competitor
Date Of Birth	Jul 3, 1986(1986-07-03)
Age	38
Birthplace	Kursk
Country	Russia
Birth City	Kursk Oblast
Horoscope	Cancer

Yuliya Stepanova Biography

Yuliya Stepanova is one of the most popular and richest Athletics Competitor who was born on July 3, 1986 in Kursk, Kursk Oblast, Russia. Yuliya Igorevna Stephanienova (nee Rusanova, Russian: Iuliia Igorevna Stanova (Rusanova), was born 3 July 1986). She is a Russian runner and specializes in the 800m track event. Her husband Vitaly Stepanov exposed widespread doping in Russian sports.

The IOC announced in October 2016 that it would help Stepanova continue her sporting career. She was also selected for BBC’s 100 Women in October 2016. In the same year, Germany’s Doping-Opfer-Hilfe (Doping Victims Assistance), awarded her the 2016 Anti-Doping Prize.

Although the IAAF decided not to lift the ban on Russian athletes before the 2016 Summer Olympics, it stated that “three or four” Russian athletes might be permitted to appear as independent competitors. Its taskforce recommended that Stepanova be allowed to compete due to her “truly exceptional contribution to the fight against doping in sport” including “great personal risks”. WADA’s former chief investigator, Jack Robertson, praised Stepanova for giving information without asking for a reduction of her sentence, to which she was entitled as a whistleblower. She completed her full sentence.

In July 2018, Stepanova testified before the U.S. Helsinki Commission in Washington, DC on the subject of doping in sports. She was on a panel alongside Travis Tygart, CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Administration, Jim Walden, the attorney for Russian Whistle-blower Grigory Rodchenkov, and Katie Uhlaender, a four-time Olympian competitor in skeleton. Stepanova claimed that speaking out against doping in Russia would have put her life at risk

Stepanova and Vitaliy Stepanov were former employees of the Russian Anti- Doping Agency. They wrote letters to the World Anti-Doping Agency detailing doping in Russia, but got no response. She began recording secret conversations with athletes and coaches to get more evidence. The couple were featured in a documentary made by Hajo Seppelt and Das Erste in 2014. They accused the Russian sports system for large-scale doping fraud. Both claimed that Russian officials provided banned substances in return for 5% of an athlete’s earnings. They also falsified doping control officers’ tests. Stepanova was called a “Judas” by a Russian spokesman. Russian media attacked her character, and her mother was criticised at work for raising an unpatriotic daughter.

Yuliya Stepanova Net Worth

Yuliya Stepanova is one of the richest Athletics Competitor from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yuliya Stepanova 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Rusanova was born in Kursk. In 2009, she married Vitaly Stepanov and gave birth in November 2013 to their son. Stepanova is her feminine name. She moved permanently from Russia to Germany with her husband, and their son in December 2014. Russian media reported that the couple had applied for Canadian political asylum. They currently reside in the United States. She was originally trained to compete in the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, but she was not accepted as a neutral.

Stepanova (then Yuliya Rusanova) began having testosterone injections on the advice of Vladimir Mokhnev. She later used anabolic steroids. In a 2016 interview she stated that although she knew it was illegal, her coach prepared her well by telling stories about how athletes use testosterone injections. Rusanova was banned from athletics for two years by the International Association of Athletics Federations. This was due to abnormalities in her biological passport. All her results since 3 March 2011 were thrown out.

On 1 July 2016, the IAAF approved Stepanova’s application to compete as a neutral athlete. Five days later, she competed at the European Championships but finished last in her heat with a torn ligament in her foot. On 24 July, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) rejected the recommendation to allow Stepanova to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics, citing her drug infraction in 2013, for which she had served her sentence. WADA director general Olivier Niggli stated that his agency was “very concerned by the message that this sends whistleblowers for the future.” Stepanova said, “Unfortunately, the behaviour of [IOC President] Thomas Bach was the same as Russia’s behaviour towards us.” In August 2016, WADA reported that Stepanova’s athlete account, where she enters information about her whereabouts, had been hacked. According to WADA, “A subsequent investigation allowed the agency to determine that no other athlete accounts on ADAMS have been accessed.” Bach said that the IOC was “not responsible for dangers to which Ms. Stepanova may be exposed.”

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Yuliya Stepanova Dating?

According to our records, Yuliya Stepanova married to Vitaliy Stepanov. As of December 1, 2023, Yuliya Stepanova’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Yuliya Ranked on the list of most popular Athletics Competitor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Yuliya Stepanova celebrates birthday on July 3 of every year.

What happened to Yuliya Stepanova?

Yuliya Stepanova and her husband, Vitaly, fled Russia with their son and a secret. Now they live a quiet life in America while the doping scandal they disclosed rages on.

What did Yuliya Stepanova?

Rusanova at the 2012 World Indoor Championships in Istanbul

Personal information
Born| 3 July 1986 Kursk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Sport
Sport| Athletics

Why did Yuliya Stepanova?

“The main motive for her, as for any other athlete who is and who was doping, is a financial motive.” Actually Stepanova received nothing in return for her evidence. She served a full two-year suspension for taking drugs herself. She’s been doing her best to pay back the prize money she won by deception.

Has Grigory Rodchenkov seen his family?

The 61-year-old former head of Moscow’s main anti-doping lab has had no physical contact with his wife, Veronika, or children Vasily and Marina , since late 2015, the year after he helped Russia cheat their way to the top of the medals table at the Sochi Winter.

Is Grigory Rodchenkov still in witness protection?

Rodchenkov has since been living under witness protection. The Rodchenkov Affair charts Rochchenkov’s childhood growing up under the Iron Curtain, his early experiences of doping as a young athlete in Moscow and his later career working as head of Russia’s national anti-doping laboratory.