Medal table Retrieved from Beijing Olympics 2008 Official Website. on August 16, 2008, during the Olympics
Men • Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals. • The original gold medalist,
Rashid Ramzi of Bahrain, was stripped of his gold medal for having committed anti-doping violations. The rest of the competitors were elevated by one position accordingly. • Jamaican team originally won gold medals but was disqualified due to anti-doping rules violation by
Nesta Carter. The CAS dismissed in 2018 the appeal of Jamaican sprinter. • Russian team originally won bronze medals but was disqualified due to anti-doping rules violation by Denis Alexeev. Following reallocation,
Great Britain's
Robert Tobin,
Andrew Steele,
Michael Bingham and
Martyn Rooney have been awarded bronze. • The original bronze medalist,
Denys Yurchenko of Ukraine, was stripped of his bronze medal for positive test for the prohibited substance. On 17 April 2017,
Derek Miles received the bronze medal. • The original bronze medalist,
Andrei Mikhnevich of Belarus, was stripped of his bronze medal after being given a lifetime ban in 2013 for doping offences.
Dylan Armstrong of Canada has received the bronze. •
Vadim Devyatovskiy and
Ivan Tsikhan were originally disqualified for doping, but had their medals reinstated in June 2010 after the
Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that there was an error at the Chinese medical lab.
Women • Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals. • Original silver medalist
Elvan Abeylegesse, , disqualified, and stripped of and ordered to return silver medal following a positive test for a banned substance at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics. Meseret Defar of Ethiopia was advanced to silver, and Sylvia Kibet of Kenya to bronze. • Original silver medalist
Elvan Abeylegesse, , disqualified, and stripped of and ordered to return silver medal following a positive test for a banned substance at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics. • Original bronze medalist
Yekaterina Volkova, , disqualified, and stripped of and ordered to return bronze medal following retesting of her original in-competition sample returned a positive test for the presence of banned substances. Following medals reallocation Tatyana Petrova-Arkhipova of Russia received the bronze medal. • Originally won by Team , but gold medals were stripped due to anti-doping rules violation by
Yulia Chermoshanskaya. Following medals reallocation Belgium are awarded gold, Nigeria – silver and Brazil – bronze. • Team originally won silver medals, while Team originally placed fourth, but both were disqualified due to anti-doping rules violations - by
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya and
Tatyana Firova in the case of Russia and
Sviatlana Usovich for Belarus. Following medals reallocation Jamaica are promoted to silver and Great Britain to bronze. • Original bronze medalist
Anna Chicherova, , was officially stripped of her bronze medal following a positive retest of her sample from the 2008 Games for the anabolic steroid
turinobol.
Yelena Slesarenko, , and
Vita Palamar, , originally 4th and 5th, also were disqualified for doping following retests. Originally the 6th place athlete, Chaunte Howard, , has received the bronze medal. • Original silver medalist
Tatyana Lebedeva, , disqualified, and stripped of and ordered to return silver medal following retesting of her original in-competition sample returned a positive test for the presence of the banned substances. Following medals reallocation Misleydis González of Cuba is promoted to silver and Gong Lijiao of China to bronze. • Retests of samples from the 2008 Summer Olympics detected a positive sample from original silver medalist
Yarelys Barrios, , for performance-enhancing drugs, and she was stripped of her medal on 1 September 2016. After medal reallocation Olena Antonova received silver and Song Aimin received bronze. • Original gold medalist
Aksana Miankova, , disqualified, and stripped of and ordered to return gold medal following retesting of her original in-competition sample returned a positive test for the presence of the banned substances
turinabol and
oxandrolone. Following reallocation
Hyleas Fountain of the United States awarded silver,
Tatyana Chernova of Russia – bronze. Chernova, , who had been awarded the bronze medal following Blonska's disqualification, was herself disqualified after a retest of her 2008 sample was found to also be positive for banned substances, namely
turinabol, and the bronze medal was awarded to the 2004 bronze medalist
Kelly Sotherton, . == Records broken ==