Ms. Josephine Nnkiruka is a Spanish Athlete competing in the Women’s 100m hurdles event at the Beijng 2008 Olympic Games.
In 2016, the IOC decided to perform further analyses on certain samples collected during the 2008 Olympic Games. These additional analyses were performed with analytical methods which were not available in 2008.
In May 2016 the International Olympic Committee reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Athlete after her 2008 A and B samples tested positive for the prohibited substance methylhexaneamine (dimethylpentylamine).
After notification the Athlete failed to respond. The Spanish National Olympic Committee informed the IOC that the Athlete had moved back to Nigeria. The NOC, nor the IAAF, nor the IOC were successful in their attemps to contact the Athlete. The IOC notes that the Athlete is already serving a lifetime ban after her 3rd anti-doping violation.
The IOC Disciplinary Commission holds that the Athlete was duly notified and with the positive test results the IOC Disciplinary Commission finds that the Athlete has committed an anti-doping rule violation. Furthermore, in this very particular case, the doping history of the Athlete makes intentional doping the clearly most likely hypothesis.
Therefore the IOC Disciplinary Commission decides on 19 October 2016 that the Athlete, Josephine Nnkiruka Onyia:
1.) is found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to the IOC Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing in 2008 (presence and/or use, of a Prohibited Substance or its Metabolites or Markers in an athlete’s bodily specimen),
2.) is disqualified from the Women’s 100m hurdles event in which she participated upon the occasion of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008.
3.) The IAAF is requested to modify the results of the above-mentioned event accordingly.
4.). This decision enters into force immediately.
