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Rio Bronze Winner Faces 2-Year Doping Ban
8 May
Summary
- Maicol Siqueira received a two-year ban for missing doping controls.
- The ban concludes on January 18, 2028, according to the ITA.
- Siqueira is a 2016 Rio Olympics bronze medalist.
Maicol Siqueira, a bronze medalist from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, has been banned from competition for two years. The International Testing Agency (ITA) imposed the sanction due to Siqueira's failure to comply with doping control requirements.
Siqueira, 33, missed no-notice drug tests on three occasions within a 12-month period. This constitutes an anti-doping rules violation under the global system, which mandates athletes to specify a daily one-hour window for availability. His ban is effective until January 18, 2028.
The athlete previously secured bronze in the men's 80-kilogram class at his home Olympics and won team gold for Brazil at the 2023 Pan American Games. It remains unclear if he was actively competing when the whereabouts failures occurred.
