On Friday, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) issued a two-year ban for two-time U20 world championship medallist Prisca Chesang of Uganda. Chesang examined optimistic for the banned diuretic and masking agent furosemide.
Chesang’s optimistic take a look at got here out-of-competition, at a coaching camp in Kapchorwa, Uganda, on Sept. 14. She was in Kapchorwa making ready for the ladies’s mile on the 2023 World Street Working Championships in Riga, Latvia, the place she positioned 18th general, on Oct. 1.
The AIU has banned Prisca Chesang (Uganda) for two years from 6 December, 2023 for the Presence/Use of a Prohibited Substance (Furosemide). DQ outcomes from 14 September 2023
Particulars right here: https://t.co/xxUmO76Wc5— Athletics Integrity Unit (@aiu_athletics) January 26, 2024
The 20-year-old is a two-time world U20 medallist within the girls’s 5,000m, successful bronze at each the 2021 and 2022 U20 championships. In keeping with the AIU, they didn’t uncover any proof that Chesang’s actions have been intentional and due to this fact she was solely given a two-year ban as an alternative of 4 years. Chesang admitted to the Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV); her outcome from the 2023 World Street Working Championships might be disqualified, and she’s going to serve a two-year ban, till Dec. 6, 2025.
Furosemide is a diuretic, that means it will increase urine manufacturing, eliminating extra water and salt from the physique. (It is usually used for shedding pounds.) Furosemide additionally serves as a masking agent for different performance-enhancing substances that go away the physique by urination, and due to this fact present up in a urine take a look at. The drug has been prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) for many years.
Uganda’s Prisca Chesang, a two-time U20 World Championships medallist, has been provisionally suspended by Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).
She examined optimistic for the banned diuretic furosemide!
This comes days after Janat Chemusto was banned for 4 years pic.twitter.com/qcNxGbVkNx
— Brian Kawalya 🇺🇬 (@BrianKawalya1) December 7, 2023
Chesang is one in every of Uganda’s prime up-and-coming distance runners and represented the East African nation on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the girls’s 5,000m (however didn’t advance from the heats). Her prime senior championship end was a seventh-place outcome on the 2023 World XC Championships in Bathurst, Australia, serving to Uganda’s girls’s staff win bronze.
Chesang is barely the second feminine Ugandan runner to be suspended by the AIU. The nation’s first got here in Nov. 2023, when Janat Chemusto was given a four-year ban for the usage of a prohibited substance.
