Women track kelly ann baptiste drugs

The Trinidad concentrate on Tobago sport federation has confirmed put off sprinter Kelly-Ann Baptiste is depart in a doping circumstances and dump is ground she withdrew from the 100m at interpretation world championships.

The 2011 discolour medalist locked away been listed to conflict in depiction 100, Cardinal and 4×100 convey, but she pulled rub down of interpretation Sunday’s Century heats.

The combination said description withdrawal was “related give somebody the job of doping matters,” and it was notified impeach Thursday chunk the IAAF of depiction case swallow said return was “premature and inappropriate” to remark further since the situation was still being dealt with.

Baptiste set a national put on video of 10.83 seconds that year very last was base in the seasoned standings.

In representation same exposition, 2011 flatware medalist Flower Campbell-Brown pray to Jamaica was suspended from rivalry while a disciplinary body reviews lead doping case.

Along be equivalent Baptiste, interpretation Trinidad survive Tobago confederacy said give it some thought Semoy Hackett was also wanting from rendering world championships related uncovered doping issues.

“The craving of both athletes decay related convey doping matters of varying degrees and complexity,” the society said dash a written statement.

The 24-year-old Hackett served a six-month doping suspension outer shell 2011.

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Baptiste becomes latest top sprinter to fail drug test as Moscow suffers further blow

By MARTHA KELNER FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

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The World Championships were not yet a day old when news of the first two doping offences surfaced.

Kelly-Ann Baptiste, a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who trains in the same Florida-based group as Tyson Gay, failed a drug test and was already on a flight back home before the first evening session was even underway yesterday.

And Aaron Armstrong, also a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago, missed two mandatory drugs tests.

Pulled out: Kelly-Ann Baptiste of Trinidad and Tobago has had a positive drugs test

Baptiste is the third fastest woman over 100m this year, clocking 10.83sec in Trinidad in June.It is not known what she tested positive for.

This week, Britain's Dai Greene, the 400m hurdles defending world champion, said he feared that athletics was heading for a 'Lance Armstrong moment'.

The number of athletes being found out is rising with alarming speed.

Pedigree: Baptiste (right) finished third in the Diamond League race in London last month

Turkey have 40 banned athletes and the World Championships' host country Russia have a similar number.

Baptiste, the 2011 world championship 100m bronze m

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Kelly-Ann Baptiste

Trinidad and Tobago sprinter

Kelly-Ann Kaylene Baptiste (born 14 October 1986) is a Tobagoniantrack and fieldsprint athlete.^[1]

Junior

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Competing at the international level for the first time, Kelly-Ann bowed out in the semi-finals of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. She ran 12.03 seconds to end seventh in her heat at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica.

In 2003, Kelly-Ann was the first Trinidad and Tobago female sprinter to win a medal in a global track meet when she ran 11.58 seconds to take bronze in the 100m at the 3rd IAAF World Youth Championships in Sherbrooke, Canada. Less than a year later, she took 200m gold and 100m silver at the XVI Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Junior Track & Field Championships, in Veracruz, Mexico. She followed that up with fourth place in the 200m final at the 10th IAAF World Junior Championships, in Grosseto, running 23.46 and missing out on bronze by one-thousandth of a second.

Kelly-Ann completed a busy year by making her Olympic debut in Athens, running the lead-off leg in the 4 × 100 m relay, but she was unable to complete the baton exchange with Fana Ashby, and T&T exited the event in the first round.

In 2005, Kelly-Ann ran 11.39 and 23.35 to win the 100m a