Career
She did not compete in the 2006 and 2007 seasons, but improved on her personal best time in 800 metres in 2008. In the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Andrianova was 5th in the final, so in the 2005 World Championships she was a favourite. “I was so upset with that bronze,” Andrianova says.
I was thinking probably it was my last World Championships.
That’s why, when the things went wrong from the very beginning, it made me so nervous”. In the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Andrianova was hoping for a medal as she so narrowly missed out in the 2004 Olympics, however, she was placed 8th in the finals.
800 metres - 1:56.00 minimum (2008)
1500 metres - 4:12.02 minimum (2005)
The IAAF reported in December 2015 that Andrianova would be retroactively suspended for testing positive for the performance-enhancing drug stanozolol. The test invalidated her results from August 9, 2005 through August 8, 2007.
Her bronze medal from the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was awarded to fourth-place finisher Maria Mutola of Mozambique.