Ja's Hammond could earn Beijing bronze

Ten years after she placed fourth in the women's long jump at the Beijing Olympics, Jamaica's Chelsea Hammond could be presented with a bronze medal following a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling last Thursday.

Russian Tatyana Lebedeva lost her appeal to CAS after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had disqualified the long jumper from the 2008 Games. CAS confirmed the IOC decision in 2016 to disqualify the athlete.

The banned anabolic steroid turinabol was discovered in retests of anti-doping samples from Lebedeva and two other Russian athletes, Maria Abakumova and Ekaterina Gnidenko.

APPEAL HEARING

Lebedeva won 2008 Beijing Olympic silver medals in the long jump and triple jump. Abakumova won the silver in javelin at the 2008 Games, while Gnidenko was eighth in Keirin track cycling at the 2012 London Olympics.

At their appeal hearings in May in Lausanne, all three failed to prove the anti-doping test methods were not scientifically valid, CAS said in a statement.

If medals are reallocated in the women's long jump, Blessing Okagbare of Nigeria may be upgraded from bronze to silver, and Hammond improved from fourth to bronze.

Jamaica could also move up from 10 to 11 medals - five gold, four silver and two bronze. The country will still, however, remain 15th in the overall standings.

Hammond, who is now 35, was born and raised by her Jamaican parents in New York. She did a personal best 6.79 metres to earn her fourth place in Beijing.