Two 2015 Comrades Marathon top-10 finishers face the possibility of losing their gold medals for doping offences.
Port Elizabeth’s Sandile Ngunuza will appear before an Independent Anti-Doping Tribunal hearing after tests at the event revealed the presence of banned stimulants in his system.
Ngunuza finished ninth in the Comrades on May 31.
Sixth-placed Joseph Mphuthi, from Frankfort, ran the Comrades in spite of being provisionally suspended after testing positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone at the Loskop ultra-marathon in 2014.
The 40-year-old’s Anti-Doping Tribunal hearing was held on July 8 this year and the decision has not yet been announced.
The SA Institute for Drug Free Sport revealed that it tested several Comrades Marathon athletes before and on the day of the event.
