Tobi Amusan Wins Doping Appeal, Cleared to Compete in Paris Olympics

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed appeals against the decision to clear Nigerian sprinter Tobi Amusan of a doping offence.

This ensures that she competes in the Paris Olympics slated for July to August.

Amusan, 27, the current world record holder in the 100m hurdles, was charged in July 2023 with missing three anti-doping tests within a 12-month period, a violation that could have led to a two-year ban.

However, the Disciplinary Tribunal of World Athletics, the sport’s governing body, cleared her of the offence, ruling that there was no evidence of a third missed test.

World Athletics and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) appealed the decision to CAS, which has now upheld the original ruling.

According to CAS, the panel “unanimously acknowledged that the Athlete committed two filing failures but did not confirm the existence of a missed test.”

Under World Athletics’ anti-doping rules, any athlete failing to declare their whereabouts for a doping test on three occasions over a 12-month period is ineligible to compete for two years.

Amusan set the world record of 12.12sec at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, and went on to win the title. She finished sixth in the 2023 World Championships in Budapest.