Commonwealth Games gold medallist Kaliese Spencer and World Championships relay bronze medallist Riker Hylton were yesterday identified by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) as the two Jamaican athletes who have violated the JADCO anti-doping rules that speak to “evading, refusing or failing to submit to sample collection”.

A release from the JAAA late yesterday afternoon said both athletes who were part of the Bert Cameron training group last year when the incident was alleged to have taken place, “have been referred to the Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel for an anti-doping violation”.

The allegations are that the athletes “have violated article 2.3” of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) rules that say in effect they refused to give a sample when asked to by a JADCO collections officer.

The release from the JAAA also said: “We have been advised by JADCO that athletes Kaliese Spencer and Riker Hylton have been referred to the Independent Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel for a hearing to be conducted in accordance with Article 8 of the JADCO Anti-doping Rules 2015,” and “As the matter is now before the disciplinary panel we will not be commenting any further on the matter.”

When contacted yesterday, Spencer’s manager Marvin Anderson told the Jamaica Observer he had just returned to the island after travelling to Asia and Europe.

Hylton, a member of the Jamaican team that placed third in the men’s 4x400m relays at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, has protested his innocence saying he was only approached by the collections officer as he was about to leave a training session after being there for a while.

Spencer won the gold medals in the women’s 400m hurdles at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Beijing, China in 2006, setting a then National Junior record 55.11 seconds, and the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.

A multiple IAAF Diamond League champion, World Championships and Olympic Games finalist, she also won silver medals in the 400m and the 4x400m in the World Indoors Championships in 2014 and was part of the Jamaica women’s 4x400m relay team at the Berlin World Championships in 2009.