Aurélie SACCHELLI, Media365, published on Monday, November 21, 2022 at 7:13 p.m.
Former triple jump world champion Teddy Tamgho, retired since 2019, has been suspended for one year retroactively for taking part in training while suspended. It therefore loses its results from March 2015 to March 2016.
More than eight years later, the affair of Teddy Tamgho’s three “no-shows” ended on Monday. On June 21, 2014, the French triple jumper, then 25 years old, was suspended for one year by the International Athletics Federation for not having made himself available for three doping controls in less than eighteen months. The Parisian had served his suspension and returned to competition in 2015. But if he had certainly not participated in any triple jump competition, he had taken part in the world junior championships as a coach and had participated in two internships with the French team. However, his suspension prohibited him from doing so. This is why this Monday, the Athletics Integrity Unit announced the retroactive suspension of Teddy Tamgho for one year for “violation of the prohibition of participation during the suspension”. Concretely, the French athlete, retired since August 2019, sees all his results between March 18, 2015 and March 17, 2016 being canceled. This therefore concerns his victory at the Eaubonne meeting, his third place at the Des Moines and Doha meetings and his victory at the French championships in Aubière in February 2016. And that’s it. Indeed, Teddy Tamgho had ruptured his Achilles tendon in May 2015 and only returned nine months later, which further mitigates this very late suspension.
Tamgho is now a coach
Now 33 years old and coach within the “Team T” structure, which notably welcomes Garfield Darien, the Burkinabe Olympic bronze medalist Hugues-Fabrice Diallo, the 60m hurdles world champion Cyréna Samba-Mayela, and Wilhem Belocian since this autumn, Teddy Tamgho has the option of appealing if he wants this 2014 case to last a little longer. The triple jumper, too often disturbed by injuries and suspensions (in 2011, he hit an athlete at the CREPS in Boulouris), remains one of the greatest French athletes of this beginning of the century. Junior world champion in 2008, he confirmed by becoming indoor world champion in 2010, indoor European champion in 2011 and outdoor world champion in 2013, for the peak of his career.
