Salzburg, Austria – May 22, 2025 – The International Biathlon Union (IBU) and the Biathlon Integrity Unit (BIU) welcome the decision of the Swiss Federal Tribunal to reject the appeals of former Russian biathlete Evgeny Ustyugov. These final rulings uphold the previous decisions of the IBU Anti-Doping Hearing Panel and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), confirming sanctions for anti-doping rule violations.
 
Mr. Ustyugov was sanctioned based on abnormalities in his Athlete Biological Passport and evidence from the Moscow Laboratory Information Management System. The upheld decisions result in the disqualification of all his competitive results from January 24, 2010, through the end of the 2013/2014 season — explicitly including his results from the Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014 Olympic Games — and a four-year period of ineligibility.
 
The decisions of the Swiss Federal Tribunal represent the final instance of appeal. With this ruling, the verdicts of the IBU Anti-Doping Hearing Panel and the Court of Arbitration for Sport now become legally binding. It is now the responsibility of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board to decide on the reallocation of medals from the 2010 and 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
 
Greg McKenna, Head of the BIU said:
 
“These decisions from the Swiss Federal Tribunal brings finality to a long-running case and stands as an important step in upholding clean sport. While we regret the time it has taken to reach this point, the ruling reinforces the principle that doping violations will be identified and sanctioned, however complex the process may be. We continue to encourage all institutions involved in sports arbitration to work towards more timely resolutions, so that the integrity of competition is preserved and clean athletes are protected.”