Olympic silver medalist Luguelin Santos has been banned for three years until March 2026 for falsifying his date of birth as a junior. The Independent Athletics Integrity Commission (AIU) announced this on Friday.
Since the 2012 Junior World Championships, which he won, the 400 m specialist from the Dominican Republic has used a passport with a date of birth that was falsified by one year, which entitled him to participate at the time.
The admitted Santos has now been stripped of his Junior World Championship gold from 2012. However, the Olympic silver medal he won in London in the same year will remain with him because there are no age restrictions at the summer games.
More bans published
Aside from this bizarre case, the AIU published the next doping suspensions and bans of athletes from the running superpowers Kenya and Ethiopia.
Tsehay Gemechu is among those recently affected. With her best time of 2:16:53 hours, which she set second in Tokyo this year, the Ethiopian is the ninth fastest marathon runner in history. She is suspected of doping because her biological passport showed abnormal values.
