IAAF Reportedly Has Suspended Germany’s Krabbe for Two Years

German sprinter Katrin Krabbe was banned for two years by the International Amateur Athletic Federation for bringing the sport into disrepute, sources said Sunday.

Krabbe, winner of the 100 and 200 at the 1991 World Championships, was suspended for four years after failing an out-of-competition drug test last year.

The German federation, however, reduced the suspension to one year. The federation said it had no provisions for out-of-competition testing in its own rules and that German courts wouldn’t accept a four-year ban.

In May, the IAAF Council said Krabbe would remain suspended until it decided whether the case needed to go to arbitration.

To avoid arbitration, the IAAF Council decided to suspend Krabbe for two years for bringing the sport into disrepute, but not on doping charges. No arbitration can be called in case an athlete is suspended on disrepute charges, the sources said.

The ban will keep Krabbe from competing in the 1995 World Championships at Goteborg, Sweden. She missed the championships in Stuttgart that ended Sunday.