Drugs in sportSix track and field athletes who competed at the 2005 world championships in Helsinki have been cited for doping after their samples were reanalysed and found to contain banned substancesthe IAAF said yesterday.

Among them was shot put winner Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus. She had also been stripped of her gold medal at the London Olympics after testing positive for an anabolic steroid.

The hammer throw champions in 2005, Ivan Tsikhan of Belarus and Olga Kuzenkova of Russia, were also found to be doping. The other athletes cited were Andrei Mikhnevich of Belarus (shot put), Vadim Devyatovskiy (hammer) of Belarus and Tatyana Kotova of Russia (long jump).