The AIU has provisionally suspended Kibrom Weldemicael (Eritrea) for the Presence/Use of Prohibited Substances (EPO and Furosemide) in relation to a Sample collected before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games period.
Weldemicael, 37, has a marathon personal best of 2:07:25, set at the Maratón BP Castellón in Spain on Feb. 25, which he won; he also won this year’s Geneva Marathon on May 5. His best performance at a major marathon was his eighth-place finish at the 2015 London Marathon. Weldemicael tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO) and furosemide, a diuretic. EPO occurs naturally in the body but has been on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of prohibited substances since the 1990s, since it is also used to improve endurance performance or to speed up recovery by boosting red blood cell production. Furosemide is a diuretic, which increases urine production and is sometimes used to flush other banned substances from the body before a doping test.
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