From the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Halina Karnatsevich, the top female runner at this year's Grandma's Marathon, has been disqualified after testing positive for a banned substance.
The International Association of Athletics Federations Web site indicated the substance was stanozolol, an anabolic steroid.
The 36-year-old from Belarus will receive a two-year ban from competition. Grandma's Marathon withheld Karnatsevich's $8,000 first-place prize purse, pending the results of the USA Track and Field-administered drug test.
Second-place finisher Svetlana Nekhorosh, 32, of Ukraine will be declared the women's champion of the 2006 race and will receive the first-place prize purse. Her time was of 2:37:33.
"Drug testing has been conducted at our race in 1987, 1990, 1994 and 2006, and we will continue to encourage USA Track and Field to include Grandma's Marathon in its schedule for drug testing in the future," Scott Keenan, executive director of Grandma's Marathon, said in a release.
Karnatsevich defended her women's title with a time of 2 hours, 33 minutes, 39 seconds, nearly four minutes ahead of Nekhorsh.