The Spanish athlete, who has secured world medals in each the 1500m and 5000m, will stay banned from competing till 2028.
The Court docket of Arbitration for Sport has dismissed an attraction from Mohamed Katir towards his four-year ban for tampering.
Katir, who was hit with a four-year ban final December after a disciplinary tribunal dominated that he had dedicated the anti-doping violation, filed an attraction to CAS.
The 27-year-old had already accepted a two-year ban for 3 whereabouts failures in 12 months. He additionally admitted he falsified a boarding move to make it seem like he was travelling on the day of one of many whereabouts failures. Nonetheless, Katir didn’t settle for the extra penalties (i.e. a four-year ban) of that violation.
World Athletics additionally filed an attraction to CAS in January this yr, with the purpose of getting the ban prolonged to 5 years.
Nonetheless, CAS has dismissed each Katir’s attraction and World Athletics‘ counter-appeal.
They decided that Katir dedicated the violation for tampering of written paperwork he’d submitted as proof.
The panel additionally judged that there was “no aggravated circumstances to justify a rise to the interval of ineligibility of 4 years”.
Katir’s two-year ban (whereabouts failures) and four-year ban (tampering) will run concurrently, which means he’ll stay banned till February 2028.
