Moroccan athlete tested positive at Cork event

THE IAAF are trying to trace a Moroccan athlete who tested positive for a banned substance at Cork City Sports last July.

Meryem Karouani Boucetta is one of two Moroccan athletes who tested positive and cannot be located to have their cases resolved. Rabia Elatiallah tested positive after the Marathon d’Eure in Chartres last May but she too is on the IAAF’s missing list.

Boucetta was one of the stars in action at the Mardyke last July when she was a runaway winner of the women’s 3,000m, sprinting clear of the Russian, Julia Chijenko, to win in 9:99.16.