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Endacott bumped up to 100m silver

ESPN staff
October 12, 2010
Katherine Endacott initially finished outside of the medal positions © PA Photos
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England's Katherine Endacott has been handed Commonwealth silver after Nigeria's Osayemi Oludamola was stripped of her gold medal for failing a drugs test.

Endacott initially finished outside of the medals in the women's 100m final, but was promoted to bronze following the disqualification of race winner Sally Pearson.

Both England's Laura Turner and Australia's Pearson were disqualified for a false start after an appeal. That decision saw Oludamola crowned champion, but the Commonwealth Games Federation confirmed that Oludamola's 'B' sample tested positive for the prohibited substance methylhexaneamine.

Natasha Mayers of St Vincent and the Grenadines has now been handed the gold medal, while Bertille Delphine Atangana of Cameroon has been promoted to the bronze medal position. The news comes on the day that another Nigerian athlete, hurdler Samuel Okon, tested positive for the same substance.

Endacott topped off an impressive Commonwealth Games, winning gold in the 4x100m relay with team-mates Turner, Montell Douglas and Abi Oyepitan.

Pearson, who went on to claim victory in the 110m hurdles, labelled her rival's drug test as "a joke".

"I don't know how you can accept a medal knowing what you've done to yourself," she told the Australian Associated Press. "But I'm happy I'm out here running drug free."

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