USADA announced today that Dylan Fischbach, of Vermillion, South Dakota, an athlete in the sport of Paralympic basketball, has had his results disqualified for competing while ineligible.

Fischbach, 20, initially accepted a two-year period of ineligibility and loss of results in October of 2015 after failing to provide a sample as requested by a doping control officer during an out-of-competition test. Nevertheless, it has since been determined that Mr. Fischbach continued to compete in National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) competition at the collegiate level, violating the terms of his sanction. However, through its investigation USADA established that both the NWBA and Fischbach were operating under the mistaken belief that his sanction did not prohibit him from such competition. Accordingly, USADA considers Fischbach’s level of fault in this matter to be negligible. Under the World Anti-Doping Code, athletes who violate the terms of their period of ineligibility can be subject to disqualification of individual results.

• This media release was originally published on the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) internet site on 11 April 2016. To access the original, please click here.