China's Lijiao Gong will get a London 2012 silver in he women;s shot ©Getty Images

China's Lijiao Gong, women's Olympic shot put bronze medallist at the London 2012, is set to inherit silver following the retrospective disqualification for doping of Russia’s Evgenia Kolodko, and her team-mate Li Ling will move up to bronze.

The second-place Russian’s sanction has followed a wide-ranging re-testing programme of samples from the last two Games undertaken by the International Olympic Committee.

Kolodko was originally third, but moved up to silver after the doping disqualification of original winner Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus, with gold then going to New Zealand's Valerie Adams.

In a similar case, Jamaica’s 4x400 metres women’s team, which won bronze medals at the Beijing Olympiics, will now take silver after the Russian quartet face losing their medals following a positive doping finding on one of their number, Anastasia Kapachinskaya.

Under rules brought in by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 2003, a doping positive for one athlete in a relay team automatically nullifies the overall performance.

Reanalysis of Kolodko’s samples from London 2012 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substances dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol) and ipamorelin.

Russia's Evgenia Kolodko is set to be stripped of the Olympic silver medal she won at London 2012 following a positive test after her sample was re-analysed and tested positive ©Getty Images
Russia's Evgenia Kolodko is set to be stripped of the Olympic silver medal she won at London 2012 following a positive test after her sample was re-analysed and tested positive ©Getty Images

The additional analyses on samples collected during the Olympic Games at Beijing 2008 and London 2012 were performed with improved analytical methods, in order to possibly detect prohibited substances that could not be identified by the analysis performed at the time of these editions of the Olympic Games.

Reanalysis of samples from the 36-year-old Kapachinskaya, who will also lose her fifth place in the individual event, resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substances stanozolol and dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol).

A third Russian athlete, decathlete Alexander Pogorelov, has been disqualified from fourth place at the Beijing 2008 through the same process.

Reanalysis of Pogorelov’s samples from Beijing 2008 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol).

And a fourth Russian, Ivan Yushkov, has been disqualified via the same process from 10th place in the men's shot put at Beijing 2008. 

Reanalysis of Yushkov’s samples from Beijing 2008 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substances stanozolol, oxandrolone and dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol).