Canadian wheelchair racer Jean-Paul Compaore suspended five years for doping violation

The International Paralympic Committee announced Monday that Canadian wheelchair racer Jean-Paul Compaore, a native of Sherbrooke, Que., has been assessed a five-year suspension and a fine of 1,500 Euros for a doping violation.

Compaore's urine sample from the IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France last July came back positive for Erythropoietin (rEPO), which is classified as an S2 substance on the World Anti-Doping Agency prohibited list (Peptide Hormones, Growth Factors and Related Substances).

Because this was Compaore's second doping violation (he served a reduced two-month suspension imposed by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) in 2011 after a positive test for hydrochlorothiazide, which is listed as a diuretic/masking agent), he got hit with the major five-year suspension this time, with a retroactive start date of Aug. 16, 2013.

All his results from July 20, 2013 on are nullified. Compaore won a bronze medal in the 10,000-metre race at worlds on July 20; countryman Josh Cassidy, who finished fourth, will get a retroactive bronze medal for his efforts.

The press release makes no mention of the suspension's effcts on a 4 x 400 metres gold medal won at the same event, which Compaore shared with Ottawa's Curtis Thom, Dorval, Que.'s Brent Lakatos and Clarenceville, Que.'s Alex Dupont.

Compoare, who is 42, was born in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.