Rana Reider: After a sexual misconduct inquiry, a US sprint coach is placed on probation

Posted : 11 May 2023

According to his attorney, US sprint coach Rana Reider received a one-year probationary period after acknowledging a consensual intimate involvement with an adult athlete, which posed a power imbalance.

After an 18-month inquiry involving several allegations of sexual misbehaviour against him, it was revealed.

The 52-year-old client of attorney Ryan Stevens was "not found in violation of any other sexual misconduct claims," according to a statement.

The American will "continue his elite coaching of sprinters and jumpers," the speaker continued.

World Athletics will examine the situation.

Griffen and Stevens, an attorney firm, stated that its client has credibly and continuously refuted all prior claims of sexual misbehaviour.

It said that an online SafeSport Education course will be a part of his one-year probationary period.

Reider has made a name for himself as one of the best track and field coaches in the world after guiding the success of numerous top athletes, including Christian Taylor, a four-time triple jump world champion, and Canada's Olympic 200-meter winner, Andre de Grasse.

Adam Gemili and Daryll Neita were two of the British athletes mentored by the former UK Athletics staffer.

UK Athletics declined to respond but World Athletics reported: "We understand the US Center for SafeSport has issued a decision regarding the Rana Reider case.

"We have not yet had access to it but as soon as we do we will consider any implications and communicate further."

Neita, 26, left Reider's Florida-based training group to train with Italian Marco Airale in Padua after British athletes were instructed by UK Athletics in 2021 to stop relations with Reider while the US Center for SafeSport looked into the accusations.

However, after choosing to continue working with the US coach, 400-meter sprinter Laviai Nielsen and former 200-meter European champion Gemili were removed from UK Athletics' World Class Programme.

Neita said that she believed UK Athletics had "blackmailed" athletes by cutting off their financing if they didn't break with Reider.

Reider received interim restrictions in November indicating that he could not conduct unsupervised coaching and limiting communication with specific people while the inquiry was being conducted.

Sports-related allegations of emotional, physical, and sexual misconduct are looked into by the US Center for SafeSport.

Rana Reider: After a sexual misconduct inquiry, a US sprint coach is placed on probation

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