The Anti-Doping Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS ADD) has issued the following decision in relation to the Latvian biathlete Andrejs Rastorgujevs:

• The Request for Arbitration filed by the International Biathlon Union on 3 May 2021 is partially upheld.

• Andrejs Rastorgujevs is found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to Article 2.4 of the IBU ADR (three Whereabouts Failures within a 12-month period).

• Andrejs Rastorgujevs is sanctioned with a period of ineligibility of eighteen (18) months.

• The period of ineligibility shall commence on 11 March 2021, which is the start date of

  the provisional suspension imposed on Andrejs Rastorgujevs.

• All competitive results obtained by Andrejs Rastorgujevs from 1 July 2020 until the date

  on which the CAS ADD decision enters into force are disqualified, with all resulting consequences including forfeiture of medals, points and prizes.