MOSCOW — Former European 10,000m champion Inga Abitova has been handed a two-year ban for breaking anti-doping regulations, the Russian athletics federation (VFLA) said Wednesday. Abitova, 30, who won gold at the 2006 European championships in Gothenburg, was banned for an “abnormal haemoglobin profile in her biological passport”, the VFLA said on its website. The Russian also won silver over the same distance at the 2010 European championships in Barcelona and finished second at the London marathon that year. She came in fourth in the 10,000m at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. — Reuters
