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Thu, September 14, 2017

UK Anti-Doping v Robin Townsend (2)

Summary

  • Sport: Cycling
  • Issue: Arbitration
  • Type: Anti-Doping
  • Tribunal: Christopher Quinlan QC, Dr Barry O’Driscoll, Dr Kitrina Douglas
  • Decision date: 03 October 2016
  • Outcome: 4-year ineligibility

Decision Details

Following the retesting of Mr Townsend’s ‘A’ Sample taken on the 5th September 2015, a second charge was brought by UKAD for the presence of EPO, and the panel reconvened on the 26th September 2016.

Townsend, a cyclist, is suspended from all sport for a period of four years, from 8th October 2015 until 7th October 2019 to run concurrent with the sanction imposed in respect of the First Charge.