(CNN) -- Olympic 1500 meter champion Rashid Ramzi has been stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for doping at the 2008 Beijing Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced. The Bahraini runner, his country's first Olympic champion, also faces a two-year ban from track and field. Moroccan-born Ramzi tested positive for CERA, an advanced version of the endurance-boosting hormone, EPO. The 29-year-old's disqualification means that Kenya's Asbel Kipruto Kiprop will be awarded gold, New Zealand's Nicolas Willis has been upgraded to silver and fourth-placed Frenchman Mehdi Baala will get bronze. Ramzi was one of five athletes who were caught out by a new test for CERA and all have been punished.
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Bahrain's Rashid Ramzi stripped of Olympic 1500m gold from Beijing
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Ramzi tested positive for CERA an advanced version of blood-booster EPO
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Four other athletes who tested positive for CERA also sanctioned
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Moroccan-born Ramzi also faces two-year ban from track and field
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