The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces that the UCI Anti-Doping Tribunal has rendered a decision against Colombian rider Martha Bayona Pineda.
The Tribunal found the rider guilty of an anti-doping rule violation due to three whereabouts failures in a 12-month period and imposed a 18-month period of ineligibility on the rider.
In accordance with the World Anti-Doping Code and the UCI Anti-Doping Rules, the period of ineligibility started on 23 April 2025 and is effective until 22 October 2026.
Furthermore, in line with the Procedural Rules of the Tribunal, the decision will be published on the UCI website. This decision may be appealed before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) within one month.
The UCI will not comment any further.
The UCI delegated its anti-doping programme to the International Testing Agency (ITA) in January 2021, whilst retaining results management and the prosecution of anti-doping rules violations. Since then, cycling’s clean sport efforts have been led by the ITA Cycling Unit, which is dedicated specifically to all disciplines of cycling. The UCI and the ITA are bound by a service agreement which guarantees that the ITA operates in an independent manner.