Brazilian walker Caio de Sena Bonfim, bronze medalist at the World Championships in London 2017, has been banned for 6 months, from 1 March this year, due to a positive bumetanide substance, classified as a diuretic.
It had left some doubts at the beginning of the season the absence of his name from the team of Brazil who had to compete in the South American Championship of race walk in Sucua, Ecuador (March 10th and 11th) and even more than the following one in the Team World Championships in Taicang (CHN), when the justification given to the first designation of Bonfim had been that of a foot injury.
As you can see from the list published by the IAAF Athletics Integrity Unit, ( click here ) now the news is official.
The media in Brazil, for example, in the Folha de S. Paulo, ( click here ) report the fact as happened before the World Championships in London and that had given rise to a process that has dragged over time and now has its final result. Caio Bonfim, represented by his lawyer Marcelo Franklin, managed to prove that in May 2017 during the Pan American Cup he got sick due to the ingestion of a contaminated food supplement.
The result was a minimum 6-month retroactive sentence from March 1, 2018, which will expire on September 1, 2018.
Bonfim, who will then be able to race again in September, has not even lost the London 2017 bronze medal.
On the site "Olimpiada todo dia" Saturday appeared an article by the lawyer of Caio Bonfim, Marcelo Franklin that our readers can read in the original version ( click here ).