At the IAAFWorld Indoor Championships in 2004 she won the 200 m, but was stripped of the title after testing positive for the banned anabolic steroid stanozolol. She denied all knowledge of how it had happened and during the two year ban that she has received has vowed to work with the World Anti_Doping Agency promoting sports without drugs, joining Kelli White of the United States of America who also fell foul of the same rules after traces of modafinil were found in her urine sample.
In a statement [1] (http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/06/01/sprinter.shtml) she said "It’s an accident, I swear I did not take any banned substances, but I do not deny that they were tested in my samples. It was my negligence."
It is an ironic state of affairs as Anastasiya was awarded the 200 m. 2003World Championship title after White was stripped of her title. Torri Edwards (USA) who was awarded the 100 m. title at the same event after White's disqualification, and stepped into the silver medal position in the 200 m. has also failed a drug test and faces a ban herself. The only person who came out of the race without suspicion was Muriel Hurtis of France who was awarded the bronze medal.
MOSCOW -- Russian sprinter AnastasiyaKapachinskaya was banned for two years after testing positive for a steroid at the indoor world championships, where she won the 200-meter gold medal.
Kapachinskaya, who won the 200 in Hungary in March, tested positive for the steroid stanozolol during the competition, and a second test came back positive.
The Russian Track and Field Federation disqualified Kapachinskaya on May 24 -- the first day of the ban -- when she was unable to account for the substance.
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