The reigning Vancouver and Montreal Part Marathon champion, Mohamed Aagab of Campbellton, N.B., has won a three-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation through the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Game (CCES).
Aagab supplied a urine pattern after profitable the 2023 BMO Vancouver Part Marathon on Would possibly 7, which published the presence of recombinant erythropoietin (rEPO), a prohibited peptide hormone used to toughen efficiency through expanding the blood’s capability to hold oxygen.
Aagab was once born in Morocco however has lived in Campbellton, N.B., since 2018. He gained the Quebec Town Marathon in 2018 and the 2023 21K de Montréal, in addition to the 2023 BMO Vancouver Part Marathon.
In line with CCES, on Oct. 3, Aagab signed an Early Admission and Acceptance Settlement, admitting to the violation and accepting the length of ineligibility and all different penalties. Consequently, the differently acceptable four-year length of ineligibility was once decreased through twelve months, in keeping with the Canadian Anti-Doping Program (CADP). Aagab’s three-year suspension, efficient Sept. 12, 2023, terminates on 9-11, 2026.
Aagab competed two times after his sure check on Would possibly 7, completing fifteenth total on the 2023 Ottawa Marathon in 2:18:34, completing one spot in the back of most sensible Canadian Lee Wesselius, who was once 14th. He additionally ran in a 5,000m on the Hub Town Vintage in Moncton, N.B. on June 10, the place he completed 3rd, in 15:27. Each effects will probably be disqualified, in conjunction with his Vancouver Part Marathon win.
Throughout the sanction length, Aagab is ineligible to take part in any capability with any game signatory to the CADP, together with coaching with teammates.
That is the primary distance working anti-doping case in Canada since David Freake of St. John’s, N.L. was once given a four-year doping ban when he examined sure for EPO and a number of other different banned elements after the 2019 Ottawa Marathon.