Athletics Integrity Unit v. Goodness Iredia

Goodness Iredia, a 20-year-old Nigerian national champion in the long and triple jump, transferred to the University of South Florida in 2024 after breaking his previous school's long and triple jump records at Cumberland University. His 2024 season was a genuine breakthrough: he set personal bests of 8.03m in the long jump and 16.55m in the triple jump at the Nigerian Championships, finished seventh at the NCAA finals — two places behind Jamaica's Wayne Pinnock, who went on to win Olympic silver in Paris the same year — and took bronze at the African Championships in Cameroon. The following May, he won both events at the American Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships.

That trajectory was cut short when Iredia provided an In-Competition urine sample (coded 8081364) at a meet in Louisville, USA, on 31 January 2025, where he had won the long jump. On 19 February 2025, the WADA-accredited laboratory in South Jordan, Utah reported an Adverse Analytical Finding for Metenolone and its metabolite 3a-Hydroxy-1-methylene-5a-androstan-17-one — an anabolic androgenic steroid under WADA category S1.1, a Non-Specified Substance banned at all times. Iredia held no Therapeutic Use Exemption, and the AIU found no departure from applicable testing standards.

The AIU notified Iredia and provisionally suspended him on 26 February 2025. He submitted a signed Admission of Anti-Doping Rule Violations and Acceptance of Consequences form on 5 March 2025 — within a week of notification. Because the substance is non-specified, the standard sanction was four years; his prompt admission earned the one-year reduction under Rule 10.8.1 ADR, producing a three-year period of ineligibility effective from 26 February 2025, with all results from 31 January 2025 disqualified and his ban running through February 2028. USF Athletics confirmed he was no longer with the programme, stating simply that the university wished him well going forward.

As with the Korir, Solomon, and Kipsang matters above, this was resolved by admission with no contested hearing, so there is no adversarial record of arguments raised and countered — only the AIU's own standard sanction arithmetic applied to a straightforward non-specified-substance finding.