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Russia was banned by the IAAF in 2015 following
an independent World Anti-Doping Agency investigation into
allegations, still denied by Moscow, of state-sponsored doping.
Some Russian athletes, however, were cleared to compete
internationally by demonstrating to the IAAF that their training
environment met the required anti-doping standards.
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has charged and provisionally
suspended Lysenko for the breaches.
"The decision... has been made as a result of Mr Lysenko's
failure to provide whereabouts information as required under the
IAAF Anti-Doping Rules and Regulations and to make himself
available for out-of-competition testing by the AIU," the IAAF
said in a statement.
Lysenko cannot compete at next week's European Athletics
Championships in Berlin, the governing body added.
The 21-year-old equaled the season's best in high jump with a
leap of 2.40 meters at the Monaco Diamond League meeting last
month.
Competing as a neutral athlete, Lysenko also won gold at the
world indoor championships in Birmingham by defeating Qatar's
Mutaz Essa Barshim, who beat him to top the world championships
in London last year.
He was one of seven Russian athletes allowed by the IAAF to
participate in Birmingham in March.
(Reporting by Sudipto Ganguly in Mumbai; editing by Amlan
Chakraborty and Christian Radnedge)
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