Great Britain 4x400 relay team finally awarded World Championship gold medals

World athletics' governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations, stripped the US team of Antonio Pettigrew, Chris Jones, Tyree Washington and Jerome Young of their 1997 World Championship title in November 2008 after Pettigrew later admitted using performance-enhancing drugs.

The U.S. quartet was disqualified and the British team - that also won silver at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta - upgraded from second to first in the results from the 1997 championships in Athens.

[readon1 url="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/6948069/Great-Britain-4x400-relay-team-finally-awarded-World-Championship-gold-medals.html"]Source: telegraph.co.uk[/readon1]