Ethiopia’s 2013 world 800m champion Mohammed Aman is on the centre of a perplexing doping case. In 2021, the middle-distance star evaded an out-of-competition drug check in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and was issued a four-year doping ban–although, as uncovered in an investigation by LetsRun.com, the penalty wasn’t made public till February 2025, after the suspension ought to have ended.
However as a consequence of practically a three-year delay within the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) proceedings, Aman nonetheless has greater than three years left to serve on his ban.
In January 2021, doping management officers requested a urine pattern from Aman whereas he was coaching at Addis Ababa Stadium. Aman left with out offering a pattern, citing a sudden dying within the household. In following days, doping management officers had been unable to search out him at his home for testing.
His causes for evading the check weren’t accepted, and in February 2021, he was provisionally suspended by the Ethiopian Nationwide Anti-Doping Workplace (ETH-NADO) for evasion of anti-doping assessments. A month later, Aman was handed a four-year ban.
A procedural mess adopted. Aman appealed the choice and ETH-NADO overturned the ban, thus allowing him to compete once more. However in September 2021, WADA appealed this determination to CAS.
Although CAS accomplished its evaluate of Aman’s case by April 2022, it took practically three years to announce its determination. On Feb. 20, 2025, CAS dominated in WADA’s favour and re-instated Aman’s four-year ban however granting him credit score for the time already served.
Many assumed Aman, who hasn’t competed since February 2020, had already accomplished the four-year suspension. The Athletic Integrity Unit(AIU) database reveals Aman has been disqualified since his infraction on Jan. 30, 2021, and has 4 years of ineligibility; nevertheless, the location additionally lists him as ineligible for one more three years, till Oct. 29, 2028.
WADA reportedly informed LetsRun.com that Aman, now 31, solely will get credit score for 189 days of the ban–the time throughout which he was really barred from competing. As a result of ETH-NADO’s determination to overturn the ban permitted him to race throughout the remainder of the interval, the remaining 1,271 days–round three and a half years–nonetheless have to be served.
On the Moscow 2013 World Athletics Championships, Aman made historical past as the primary Ethiopian to win a world out of doors 800m title. At simply 19, he clocked 1:43.31 to take gold. A two-time Olympian (London 2012 and Rio 2016), he additionally holds two indoor world titles and the nationwide document 1:42.37.