Brazilian marathon runner Do Nascimento cops five-year doping ban

Brazilian Daniel Do Nascimento, who holds the marathon area record for the Americas, has been banned for five years after two positive doping tests, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Wednesday.

The AIU ban is backdated to 15 July, 2024, with all results scrubbed from 4 July of the same year, the date of his first positive test for prohibited anabolic steroids rostanolone, metenolone and nandrolone.

Do Nascimento set an Americas area record of 2hr 04min 51sec at the Seoul marathon in 2022.