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Two-time world U20 medallist suspended to be used of masking agent


On Thursday morning, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) introduced the provisional suspension of two-time U20 World Championships medallist Prisca Chesang of Uganda. Chesang examined optimistic for the prohibited diuretic furosemide.

In line with the AIU, Chesang has been charged below Article 2.1 and Article 2.2 of the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) and has been issued a discover. She faces a brief ban from all competitions.

The 20-year-old is a two-time world U20 medallist within the ladies’s 5,000m, profitable bronze at each the 2021 and 2022 U20 championships.

Furosemide is a diuretic, that means it will increase urine manufacturing, eliminating extra water and salt from the physique. It is usually used for losing a few pounds. Furosemide additionally serves as a masking agent for different performance-enhancing substances that go away the physique by urination, and subsequently present up in a urine take a look at. The drug has been prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) for many years.

Chesang represented Uganda on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the ladies’s 5,000m however did not advance from the heats. Her prime senior championship end was a seventh-place end result on the 2023 World XC Championships in Bathurst, Australia, serving to Uganda’s ladies’s crew win bronze.

Chesang’s optimistic take a look at got here in competitors on the 2023 World Street Working Championships in Riga, Latvia, the place she positioned 18th within the mile.

Chesang is barely the second feminine Ugandan runner to be suspended by the AIU. The nation’s first got here earlier this month, when Janat Chemusto was given a four-year ban for the usage of a prohibited substance.



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