Russian informant IAAF is disqualified for four years

Russian runner Alexander Hutte is disqualified by the sports arbitration court (CAS) in Lausanne for four years for violation of anti -doping rules.

According to the official website of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (VFLA), the four-time champion of the country for short-distance running and the winner of the European Command Championship was found guilty of violation of the rules under three points, such as the presence of a prohibited drug in the body, an attempt to use it and evasion of doping production.

The disqualification is counted from August 5, 2015, all the results of the athlete from May 22 to August 4, 2015 are subject to cancellation.

Earlier it became known that Hutte was an informant of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) for doping in the Russian national team.

In 2015, he wrote a letter to IAAF, where he accused of obtaining a positive result of a doping test of his coach Zuhr Vereshchagin. Alexander expressed his readiness for cooperation and asked for mitigating punishment in exchange for aiming at teammates suspected of violating anti -doping rules.