Double world athletics champion Teddy Tamgho has received a one-year retroactive ban for competing while ineligible ©Getty Images

Double world athletics champion Teddy Tamgho has received a one-year retroactive ban for competing while ineligible.

Tamgho received the retroactive ban, dated from March 18 2015, for competing while he was banned for three whereabouts failures during an 18-month period between December 2012 and March 2014.  

Tamgho’s original suspension for the whereabouts failures ran from March 18 2014 to March 17 2015.

Teddy Tamgho celebrates after winning World Championship triple jump gold in Moscow in 2013 with a distance of 18.04 metres, a world lead ©Getty Images
Teddy Tamgho celebrates after winning World Championship triple jump gold in Moscow in 2013 with a distance of 18.04 metres, a world lead ©Getty Images

Under Tamgho’s retroactive ban, his results from March 18 2015 through to March 17 2016 will be disqualified.

Tamgho’s two World Championship golds date from before the disqualification of any of his results, with both of these coming in triple jump at the World Indoor Championships in Doha in 2010 and the World Championships, outdoors, at Moscow in 2013.

Tamgho also won European Indoor Championship gold at Paris in 2011 and outdoor silver, both in the same discipline, at the European Championships in Barcelona 2010.