Russian London Marathon Winner Must Repay Prize After Doping
- Shobukhova must return 378,000 pounds for 2010, 2011 races
- Runner banned by international athletics body for cheating
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Liliya Shobukhova, who won the 2010 London Marathon and was runner-up the following year, was ordered to return 378,000 pounds ($499,000) in prize money to race organizers, nearly a year after the Russian was banned for doping by the athletic’s international governing body.
London Marathon Events Ltd. won a British High Court judgment and will now pursue the case in Russian courts, it said Tuesday in an e-mailed statement. Shobukhova, 38, also won the Chicago marathon three times. She is banned for life from the London race and five other major marathons, and got a reduced 2 1/2-year track-and-field ban from anti-doping authorities after cooperating with their investigation.