Wrestler Khasan Baroev and high jumper Elena Slesarenko were both sanctioned after being named on a list of 16 released by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday.

The group were the latest to be disqualified following retrospective testing, which the IOC are carrying out on Beijing and London 2012 samples using up-to-date methods not available at the time.

Baroev will now lose the silver medal he won in Beijing in the men's Greco-Roman 120kg category, after he tested positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.

As well as being the Athens champion in the weight class, the Tajikistan-born wrestler is also a double world champion at 120kg.

He had initially decided not to appeal but the 33-year-old has now told Russian news agency TASS: "I have changed my mind, I will fight for myself and for my medal, and I will go to court."

Slesarenko was fourth in the women's high jump in Beijing, four years after her Athens gold.

She also failed for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, along with Ukraine’s Vita Palamar who was fifth in the high jump in the Chinese capital.

"My lawyers are formulating an appeal," 34-year-old Slesarenko told TASS. 

"A lawsuit will be filed at the international Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport.

"We are going to challenge this IOC decision." 

In all, three silver and nine bronze medallists from the Beijing Games were sanctioned by the IOC yesterday.

Five athletes from Kazakhstan were disqualified, along with four Russians, three Ukrainians, two Azeris and one competitor each from Belarus and Greece.

Of those sanctioned, nine were weightlifters, while four came from athletics and three from wrestling.