AFP, Paris :
Russian high jumper Danil Lysenko will not compete at the European championships after being provisionally suspended for missing doping tests, athletics’ world ruling body the IAAF said Friday.
Lysenko, the world indoor champion, was one of 74 athletes vetted by an anti-doping panel and allowed to compete under a neutral flag despite the ongoing ban on Russian athletes in the wake of a major doping and corruption scandal in 2015.
But the 21-year-old Lysenko was stripped of his status as an Authorised Neutral Athlete (ANA) after failing to “provide whereabouts information as required under the IAAF Anti-Doping Rules and Regulations and to make himself available for out-of-competition testing by the AIU”, according to a statement by the IAAF.
Russian high jumper Danil Lysenko will not compete at the European championships after being provisionally suspended for missing doping tests, athletics’ world ruling body the IAAF said Friday.
Lysenko, the world indoor champion, was one of 74 athletes vetted by an anti-doping panel and allowed to compete under a neutral flag despite the ongoing ban on Russian athletes in the wake of a major doping and corruption scandal in 2015.
But the 21-year-old Lysenko was stripped of his status as an Authorised Neutral Athlete (ANA) after failing to “provide whereabouts information as required under the IAAF Anti-Doping Rules and Regulations and to make himself available for out-of-competition testing by the AIU”, according to a statement by the IAAF.
