Men's world 100m champion Christian Coleman has appealed a two-year ban for anti-doping offences to the Court of Arbitration for Sport ©Getty Images

Men's world 100 metres champion Christian Coleman has appealed his two-year ban for breaching anti-doping whereabouts rules to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). 

The American missed tests on January 16 and December 9 2019, and was also charged with a filing error in connection with an attempted test on April 26.

Coleman accepted the first missed test but challenged the other two rulings, but the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) did not find in his favour.

As it stands, the sanction will rule the 24-year-old out of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Coleman requested that the decision be "set aside" and the sanction "eliminated."

In its original decision, the AIU described Coleman's behaviour as "very careless at best and reckless at worst."

An appeal by the AIU against the sanction handed out to Bahraini athlete Salwa Eid Naser has been submitted to CAS ©Getty Images
An appeal by the AIU against the sanction handed out to Bahraini athlete Salwa Eid Naser has been submitted to CAS ©Getty Images

CAS has also confirmed that World Athletics had submitted an appeal by the AIU against a decision by the World Athletics Disciplinary Tribunal in the case of Salwa Eid Naser, the women's 400m world champion.

The 22-year-old from Bahrain last month escaped a ban that would have ruled her out of competing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, when whereabouts charges brought against her were dismissed in a "borderline" decision by the Disciplinary Tribunal.

The tribunal concluded that Naser had not committed an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV).

The AIU has requested the CAS "sets aside" the original decision and replaces it with "a new decision in which Naser is found to have committed an ADRV and sanctioned with a two-year period of ineligibility."

Naser had been charged with four alleged whereabouts failures by the AIU in June.

This included a filing failure on March 16 2019 and three missed tests on March 12 and April 12 of last year and January 24 2020.

Missing three tests within 12 months is the equivalent of a doping failure and Naser had been provisionally banned after the charges were brought.

The Disciplinary Tribunal ruled the alleged violation in April 2019 should not stand, which meant Naser had not missed three tests inside the 12-month window.