Education
Zaripova attended her first World Championships that year and ran a personal best of 9:08.39 in the 3000 m steeplechase.
athletics competitor middle-distance runner
Zaripova attended her first World Championships that year and ran a personal best of 9:08.39 in the 3000 m steeplechase.
She is currently banned for doping. Despite her relative lack of experience, this was enough for a silver medal behind Marta Domínguez and she beat her much more favoured compatriot. In the DN Galan on 17 August 2012, she improved her personal best again, to 9:05.02.
Doping
On 30 January 2015, the Russian anti-doping agency announced that Zaripova was sanctioned for an anti-doping rule violation based on abnormal parameters of the athletes’ haematological profiles within the framework of the Biological passport programme of the IAAF. Her results from 20 June 2011 to 20 August 2011 and 3 July 2012 to 3 September 2012 were annulled and she was banned from competition for 2 years and 6 months from 25 July 2013.
On 25 March 2015, the IAAF filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration in Lausanne, Switzerland, questioning the selective disqualification of the suspension periods of the six athletes involved including Zaripova. All information taken from IAAF profile.