Two-time world championship medallist and one of many prime distance runners on the earth, Mohamed Katir, has been given a two-year ban by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for whereabouts violations. On Friday, Katir admitted to the Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) and can serve a two-year suspension, lacking the 2024 World Indoor Championship, Paris Olympic Video games, and the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
The AIU has banned Mohamed Katir (Spain) for two years, from 7 February 2024, for Whereabouts Failures. DQ outcomes from 10 October 2023.
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In response to the AIU, the world 5,000m silver medallist missed three assessments between Feb. 28, 2023, and Oct. 10, 2023 (lacking three doping assessments in a 12-month window leads to an ADRV). Katir shall be banned from competitors till Feb. 7, 2026.
On Feb. 28, a Doping Management Officer (DCO) went to the tackle in Murcia, Spain indicated within the Athlete’s Whereabouts info; upon arrival, the DCO was advised that Katir was in Lisbon, Portugal, and wouldn’t be returning till March 2.Â
Katir missed one other take a look at on April 3, when a DCO confirmed up at his house in Murcia once more. Upon arrival, Katir was not there and was away coaching in France, failing to replace his whereabouts. Katir advised the AIU that he tried to replace his info however the system was not working. He was charged together with his second violation when he didn’t ship an e mail offering proof of technical points.
His third violation occurred on Oct. 10 when a DCO went to a specified location for the athlete’s 60-minute time slot between 7:20 p.m. and eight:20 p.m. When the DCO arrived, Katir was away at coaching and later insisted that there was a mistake in his whereabouts, claiming that he by no means modified the time slot from his ordinary 7:00 a.m. to eight:00 a.m. window.
Heading into the Olympic yr, Katir was one of many favourites to contend for a medal within the 1,500m and 5,000m on the 2024 Paris Olympics. When the information got here out on his whereabouts suspension on Feb. 7, Katir and his agent mentioned they have been going to submit an attraction to the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). On Feb. 13, Katir signed an admission of fault type and accepted the two-year sanction. All outcomes from Oct. 10, 2023, shall be disqualified.
The 25-year-old is a two-time world championship medallist, profitable silver within the males’s 5,000m in Budapest 2023 and bronze within the males’s 1,500m at Eugene in 2022. On each events, Katir was overwhelmed by Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen. Katir can also be the European file holder over 5,000m, working 12:45.01 on the Monaco Diamond League–the eleventh quickest time in historical past.
Katir final raced on Jan. 28, working 3:51.91 for the mile on the Assembly de l’Eure in France–the second quickest time on the earth this yr.
