 Tatyana Tomashova is a two-time world 1500m champion
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport has extended the bans of seven Russian athletes for manipulating drug samples.
The group, including double world 1,500m champion Tatyana Tomashova, were found to have switched urine samples during drug tests in spring 2007.
They were banned by the Russian federation for two years from the date the samples were submitted.
But the sport's governing body, the IAAF, appealed, saying the ban should start from their suspension last July.
As well as Tomashova, world indoor 1,500m champion Yelena Soboleva and distance duo Yuliya Fomenko and Svetlana Cherkasova were also involved.
The others were European discus champion Darya Pishchalnikova, hammer thrower Gulfia Khanafeyeva and former 5,000m champion Olga Yegorova.
The seven athletes are now banned for two years and nine months and will be ineligible to compete until 30 April 2011.
The IAAF provisionally suspended the women only days before the Beijing Olympics - following an undercover investigation.
They said their urine samples taken in out-of-competition tests in May 2007 and then at the World Championships in Osaka later that year did not match.
But in October, Russia's athletics federation caused controversy by backdating the two-year bans to start when the initial samples were given.
That decision would have cleared the women to return at the World Championships in Berlin in August, but the IAAF lodged an appeal.
An IAAF statement said: "It was unacceptable to the IAAF that these athletes who had committed serious and deliberate breaches of our anti-doping rules would receive an effective ban of approximately 9-10 months."
All but Tomashova have now retired from the sport.
Yegorova won gold in the 5000m at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, just weeks after she had tested positive for the banned blood-booster EPO.
On that occasion she escaped a ban and was allowed to run because of mistakes made in the testing process.
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