British hurdler Callum Priestley faces drug ban following positive test

By Simon Hart Published: 4:25PM GMT 05 March 2010

In trouble: British hurdler Callum Priestley tested certain for asthma remedy Clenbuturol Photo: GETTY IMAGES Photo: PA

The 21-year-old, who is ranked No 3 in Britain in the 110 metres hurdles and who won a bronze award at last years European Under-23 Championships, has been provisionally dangling after contrast certain in an out-of-competition drug exam in South Africa in January.

The Leicester athlete, who is a part of of the Woodford Green and Essex Ladies club, was in attendance a warm-weather precision stay organized by the ruling body.

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The headlines comes less than a month after it was reliable that dual immature British shot putters, Kieren Kelly and Jamie Stevenson, had been charged with a doping corruption after refusing to take an out-of-competition drug exam during a precision day in Loughborough.

Like the dual throwers, Priestley will right away have the event to urge himself at a disciplinary hearing. If found guilty of a doping violation, he faces an involuntary two-year anathema and, underneath the British Olympic Associations bylaw, a lifetime anathema from the Olympic Games.

The proclamation of 3 drug cases in such discerning period is a reversal for UK Athletics, that had enjoyed an ideal jot down given Christine Ohuruogu was criminialized for one year in 2006 for blank 3 pointless tests.

The last box of an chosen British contestant unwell a drug exam was Dwain Chambers certain exam for THG in 2003 as the BALCO liaison unravelled.

Niels de Vos, the UK Athletics arch executive, said: "I am hugely unhappy that there has been a unsuccessful test. UKA continues to give 100 per cent await to the work of UK Anti-Doping and we say the full joining to drug-free sport."

Priestley, a former county-level footballer, was towering to second-tier growth Lottery appropriation by UK Athletics in Dec after a array of considerable performances last year.

He accomplished runner-up at the back of Andy Turner in the 110m hurdles at the Aviva World Trials and UK Championships in Birmingham, violence the rarely regarded William Sharman, and he additionally ran a personal most appropriate of 13.56sec in Loughborough.

Last month he one after another his swell by winning the 60m hurdles at the World Indoor trials in Sheffield and he set a lifetime most appropriate of 7.68sec at the Birmingham Games only 0.03sec outward the subordinate customary for subsequent weeks World Indoor Championships in Doha.

Tests carried out on dual urine samples supposing by the contestant reliable the participation of clenbuterol, a drug used for the diagnosis of asthma but that is criminialized by the World Anti-Doping Agency since of the capability to revoke physique fat and thus raise jaunty performance.