Luguelin Santos Stripped Of Gold Medal Won In 2012 World Junior Event After Confessing Cheating On His Age

Dominican sprinter Luguelin Santos has been stripped of his World Junior Championships gold medal and slapped with a three-year ban for age manipulation violations by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).

Luguelin Santos, currently 31, secured the 400-meter gold at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona. The AIU revealed in a statement that Luguelin Santos confessed to competing in the 2012 age-group championships with a passport displaying a falsified date of birth—Nov. 12, 1993—while he was actually born on that date in 1992.

Consequently, he was ineligible for participation in the World Juniors 2012, as per the 2012 Competition Rules stipulating junior athletes to be aged 18 or 19 on Dec. 31 of the competition year.

Santos, a two-time Youth Olympic champion, also clinched a silver medal in the 400m at the 2012 London Olympics. Brett Clothier, Head of the AIU, clarified that unlike doping violations, there is no basis for annulling Santos’s Olympic result as it was not an age-group event, and no violation occurred in that context.

GWG.ng reports that the decision of the athletics body against Luguelin Santos shows the reality of the truth coming to hunt a man no matter the passage of time given that the offence was committed more than ten years ago.

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