U.S. high jumper to get 2012 Olympic gold from Russian athlete

The International Olympic Committee executive board signed off on reallocating the medals and final results for five events from the London Olympics, including men’s and women's high jump

American high jumper Erik Kynard will finally get his gold medal from the 2012 London Olympics after the IOC on November 12 approved reallocating some results from those games because of doping cases.

Kynard’s leap of 2.33 meters placed second in London behind Ivan Ukhov, who was proven years later to have taken part in the Russian State-backed steroid doping program.

Ukhov was banned for four years in 2019 at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. He went back to the same court last year for an appeal hearing but failed to overturn the ruling.