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 beneath Article 2.1 and Article 2.2 of the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) and has been issued a discover. She faces a short lived ban from all competitions.
The AIU has provisionally suspended Prisca Chesang (Uganda) for the Presence/Use of a Prohibited Substance (Furosemide).
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— Athletics Integrity Unit (@aiu_athletics) December 7, 2023
The 20-year-old is a two-time world U20 medallist within the girls’s 5,000m, successful bronze at each the 2021 and 2022 U20 championships.
Furosemide is a diuretic, which means it will increase urine manufacturing, eliminating extra water and salt from the physique. It is usually used for shedding weight. Furosemide additionally serves as a masking agent for different performance-enhancing substances that depart the physique via urination, and due to this fact present up in a urine check. 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 girls’s 5,000m however didn’t advance from the heats. Her high senior championship end was a seventh-place outcome on the 2023 World XC Championships in Bathurst, Australia, serving to Uganda’s girls’s crew win bronze.
Prisca Chesang wins bronze within the women 5000m remaining on the ongoing #WorldAthleticsU20Championships in Nairobi with a time of 16:21:78. Our solely medal up to now on the occasion. This lady is one for the long run. pic.twitter.com/gW98lOjP9v
— Athletics Uganda (@AthleticsUgand2) August 22, 2021
Chesang’s optimistic check got here in competitors on the 2023 World Street Working Championships in Riga, Latvia, the place she positioned 18th within the mile.
Chesang is just 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 using a prohibited substance.
