Jamaican high jumper Damar Robinson has been handed a one-year ban for doping in the latest blow to the country’s athletics programme.
The sanction was handed down by the chairman of the Jamaica Anti-doping Disciplinary Panel Kent Pantry following an in-camera hearing at the Jamaica Conference Centre.
Robinson’s suspension comes days after three Jamaican Olympians, sprinters Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson and discus thrower Allison Randall, received lengthy doping bans.
Robinson, who also competes in triple jump, was suspended for using a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM).
The ban for Robinson, who is currently studying in the United States, will be retroactive to June 16, 2013 when he provided the positive sample at Jamaica’s national junior trials.