The Beijing Olympics relay silver medallist Anastasiya Kapachinskaya and two other Russian athletes, Inga Abitova and Denis Alekseyev, were banned for four years on Wednesday for doping.
Kapachinskaya, Abitova and Alekseyev were caught out for using the prohibited substance turinabol when their samples from the 2008 Games were retested.
The bans were announced by the All-Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF), AFP reported.
Kapachinskaya, who also tested positive for stanozolol, was part of the women's 4X400m relay team that came second in Beijing. Her retested sample from the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu also came back positive.
Abitova took sixth in the women's 10,000m in China while Alekseyev picked up bronze in the men's 4x400m relay bronze that year.
