• Pavey wants British athletes to be honoured at 2017 world championships • ‘I missed the moment in Osaka – to get it in London would be a nice gesture’

Jo Pavey has urged track and field’s governing body to reward British athletes who are set to belatedly receive Olympic or world championship medals with special podium ceremonies at the worlds in London this August.

Pavey, who is set to be upgraded to a bronze medal after originally finishing fourth in the 10,000m at the 2007 world championships, is one of a number of British athletes in such a position following the retesting of blood and urine samples from previous global championships.

Others include Jessica Ennis-Hill, who looks set to be bumped up from silver to gold at the 2011 world championships after the Russian Tatyana Chernova tested positive for steroids, as well as Britain’s men’s 4x400m team and the javelin thrower Goldie Sayers, whose fourth-place finishes at the 2008 Olympics will become bronze after Russian athletes who won medals in their events were confirmed to have doped when their samples were retested last year.

“It would be lovely to have that moment in front of 50,000 people at the Olympic Stadium,” Pavey said. “It would be very special. Obviously to get the medal from 2007 would be bittersweet as I feel that I missed that moment in Osaka, but to get it in London would be a really nice gesture.”

The Guardian understands that British Athletics has been in talks with the IAAF about holding such ceremonies but track and field’s governing body is lobbying for them to be held at the Anniversary Games in July rather than at the world championships.

Pavey’s plea was supported by Andrew Steele, who was one of the British men’s 4x400m quartet that finished fourth in Beijing. “Providing that we are officially upgraded to bronze, I can’t think of a better symbol that British athletics could give than to allow us the opportunity to stand on the podium in the Olympic Stadium,” he said. “Nothing will make up for missing out on our actual podium moment, but a ceremony in front of a home crowd would be an amazing experience.”

Toni Minichiello, who coached Ennis-Hill before she retired after the 2016 Olympics, also supported the move – but said it should apply to all those who had initially missed out on medals due to doping. “It would be a lovely thing for Jess to get that 2011 gold medal in front of the British public but my only additional suggestion is that the IAAF make it a proper one-two-three,” he said.

“Let’s make it a global presentation. Let’s celebrate the fact that it’s global correction, not just a British one.”

Pavey won a Commonwealth bronze and silver in the 5,000m and gold in the 10,000m at the European championships in 2014, but the 43-year-old has never won a major world medal. In Osaka she came closest of all before being overtaken by the American Kara Goucher, who took bronze, with the Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba winning gold and Turkey’s Elvan Abeylegesse – who later failed a drugs test – silver.

Speaking at the launch of this year’s London Marathon, Pavey explained how much missing out on a medal in 2007 had hurt – especially given she was pipped near the finish by Goucher. “I was lying on the floor feeling like I had let everyone down because I couldn’t hold on to a medal position,” she said. “I remember lying on the track having given my all, and trying to summon the energy to get up to meet my husband, Gav, and my coach, Alan Storey, while feeling so gutted. I felt so much disappointment.”