On Thursday, the observe and subject world was left surprised after the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) introduced their newest main doping bust. Certainly one of Ukraine’s high athletes, Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk, two-time world silver medallist within the triple soar and lengthy soar, was handed a provisional suspension for the suspected use of the banned substance testosterone.
“The AIU has provisionally suspended Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk (Ukraine) for Presence/Use of a Prohibited Substance (Testosterone),” the AIU wrote on X. As of Thursday, the jumper turned the latest addition to the AIU’s up to date record of suspended athletes. She faces a possible ban of 4 years.
The three-time Olympian (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024) gained silver within the lengthy soar on the 2019 world championships in Doha, Qatar, and once more in triple soar on the 2023 championships in Budapest, Hungary. Her finest end at an Olympics was fifth place in Tokyo.
Bekh-Romanchuk has not competed because the Paris Olympics final August, the place she positioned eleventh. In accordance with NBC Sports activities, the 29-year-old was slated to leap on the Friday’s Doha Diamond League assembly; her title has since been faraway from the entry record.
Kenya’s Nehemiah Kipyegon handed three-year ban
Additionally on Thursday, Kenyan highway runner Nehemiah Kipyegon was banned for 3 years after the prohibited substance Trimetazidine, a metabolic modulator, was detected in his pattern throughout an in-competition urine take a look at in Nigeria on Feb. 15.
The 27-year-old was topic to a four-year ban, however due to his early acceptance of the ineligibility interval, his sanction was lowered to 3 years. Kipyegon’s outcomes since Feb. 15, which features a 1:03:43 half-marathon efficiency and third-place end from the Semi-Marathon du Massif Forestier in France in March, will likely be disqualified.
The athlete holds a private better of 1:00:34 from the Copenhagen Half-Marathon in September and a 10K better of 28:34 from Les Foulées Monterelaises in France a month later. He gained his debut at October’s Generali Munich Marathon in Germany in 2:10:02.
