Former world indoor 400-meter champion, Kemi Adekoya, has been banned for four years for doping.
The ban is another hit to Bahrain’s squad of elite African-born runners.
Last August at the Asian Games, she won gold in the 400-meter hurdles and 4×400 mixed relay.
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), which oversees doping cases in track and field, said Friday that Adekoya tested positive for the banned steroid stanozolol.
Her ban is backdated from November 2018.
Previously, Adekoya competed for Nigeria but switched allegiance to Bahrain ahead of the 2014 Asian Games.
Since then, she’s won four Asian Games gold medals and an Asian championship title, plus the 2016 world indoor 400 gold in Portland.
