The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has upheld a request for provisional measures by World Athletics (WA) against the Ethiopian National Anti-Doping Office (ETH-NADO) and middle-distance runner Diribe Welteji Kejelcha (Ethiopia) concerning an alleged Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV).
Diribe is declared ineligible to compete in the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025. Ms Welteji was charged with an ADRV on 21 May 2025 by ETH-NADO for allegedly refusing to provide a sample for an out-of-competition doping control without any justification. A hearing took place on 12 August 2025, before the ETH-NADO Hearing Panel, which subsequently found that the Athlete did not commit an ADRV.
World Athletics filed an appeal to CAS on 9 September 2025 against the ETH-NADO Hearing Panel’s decision with a request for provisional measures to be rendered prior to the start of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
The request for provisional measures has been upheld, and Diribe is suspended for the duration of the CAS arbitration procedure.
As a result, Diribe is not eligible to compete at the World Athletics Championships starting in Tokyo in less than 24 hours, in which she was entered in the women’s 800m and 1500m events.
(Modified from a CAS press release
