# GB and Wales’ Griffiths banned after drug test

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/gb-and-wales-griffiths-banned-after-drug-test/
- Published: 2026-11-11T19:03:02+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T20:37:58+00:00
- Original publisher: BBC Sport (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/c8dx16rk2keyo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
- Topics: Health, Medicine, Sport, UK, World

## Key points

- Josh Griffiths accepted a three-month anti-doping ban.
- Tests found a cocaine metabolite after the Belfast Marathon.
- His results from 3 May through the ban were expunged.

## Summary

Welsh and Great Britain marathon runner Josh Griffiths has accepted a three-month ban after tests following the Belfast City Marathon detected a cocaine metabolite. The case matters because the anti-doping authority found a rule violation despite accepting that any ingestion was out of competition and unrelated to sport.

The 33-year-old denied knowingly taking cocaine or any other social drug, but could not establish how the substance entered his system. The AIU said benzoylecgonine was found in both urine samples provided after the 3 May race; his ban began from the hearing date of 19 June 2026, and results from the Belfast race through the ban period were expunged. Griffiths represented Britain at the 2017 and 2022 World Championships and Wales at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

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