LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Former world champion runner Marta Dominguez has been banned for three years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and risks losing her 2009 steeplechase gold medal.
CAS ruled after appeals by the IAAF and World Anti-Doping Agency challenging the Spanish athletics federation’s decision last year to clear Dominguez of irregularities in her biological passport.
Dominguez won the 3,000-meter steeplechase title at the 2009 world championships in Berlin. She also won silver in the event at the 2010 European championships.
The CAS panel ordered that all of her competitive results obtained from August 2009 to July 2013 be disqualified.
Dominguez, now 40, previously specialized in the 5,000 meters, winning two European titles and two worlds silver medals.
The ban will expire in 2018.
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