Kenyan marathon runner Titus Ekiru hit with 10-year doping ban
1 year, 2 months ago

Kenyan marathon runner Titus Ekiru hit with 10-year doping ban

The Hindu  

Kenyan marathon runner Titus Ekiru has been slapped with a 10-year ban for doping and trying to obstruct the investigation, the Athletics Integrity Unit said Monday. The 31-year-old tested positive for prohibited substances after winning the Milan marathon in May 2021 and the Abu Dhabi event in November that year, it said in a statement. The ban follows a “comprehensive investigation” which revealed tampering by Ekiru to obstruct the AIU probe, and collusion by a senior doctor at a Kenyan hospital, the agency said. “For athletes involved in doping and the entourage who assist them, there is one strong message from this case -- there is nowhere to hide,” AIU chair David Howman said.

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Kenyan runner Anyango banned for six years for use of testosterone and EPO
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Kenyan runner Anyango banned for six years for use of testosterone and EPO

The Hindu  

Kenyan cross country runner Emmaculate Anyango has been banned for six years after failing a doping test for testosterone and the blood-boosting hormone EPO, the Athletics Integrity Unit said on Friday. READ: New mixed 4x100m relay added to 2026 World Athletics Ultimate Championship She said that she had not deliberately taken or injected any prohibited substances but the AIU were …

Former Tokyo Marathon Runner Tsehay Gemechu Faces Four-Year Ban for Suspected Blood Doping
2 months, 1 week ago

Former Tokyo Marathon Runner Tsehay Gemechu Faces Four-Year Ban for Suspected Blood Doping

The Hindu  

Former Tokyo Marathon runner Tsehay Gemechu has been banned for four years for suspected blood doping. Her 25-year-old career was impacted, including disqualification from her second-place finish in the Tokyo Marathon in 2023, fourth place in the 5,000 meters at the 2019 world championships, and disqualification from the 10,000 meters at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 for a lane violation. …

Kenya’s Cherono gets seven-year ban for doping violation
6 months ago

Kenya’s Cherono gets seven-year ban for doping violation

The Hindu  

Kenyan Lawrence Cherono has been handed a seven-year ban after the former Boston and Chicago marathon winner was found to have violated anti-doping regulations, the Athletics Integrity Unit said on Wednesday. The AIU imposed a ban of four years for the violation together with another four-year ban for the tampering or attempted tampering of the doping control, but reduced the …

Kenyan marathon champion hit with second doping ban
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Kenyan marathon champion hit with second doping ban

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Spanish runner Katir provisionally suspended by World Athletics for missing doping tests
11 months ago

Spanish runner Katir provisionally suspended by World Athletics for missing doping tests

The Hindu  

Spanish long distance runner Mohamed Katir has been provisionally suspended by World Athletics for three doping test whereabouts infringements, the athlete said in a statement Wednesday. “Today the Athletics Integrity Unit has issued me with a provisional suspension for what it considers to be a breach of the rules, based on three whereabouts violations in the last 12 months,” said …

Kenya’s Titus Ekiru facing 10-year ban, says Athletics Integrity Unit
1 year, 6 months ago

Kenya’s Titus Ekiru facing 10-year ban, says Athletics Integrity Unit

The Hindu  

Kenyan athlete Titus Ekiru is facing a 10-year ban for four charges of anti-doping violations, the Athletics Integrity Unit said on Monday. “The 31-year-old’s charges stem from AIU investigations into Ekiru’s positive in-competition doping tests after marathon victories in the Milano Marathon on 16 May 2021 and the ADNOC Abu Dhabi Marathon on 26 November 2021,” the AIU said in …

Kenya boosts testing in athletics ‘doping war’
1 year, 8 months ago

Kenya boosts testing in athletics ‘doping war’

The Hindu  

Athletics superpower Kenya announced on Thursday it will more than triple annual drug testing of athletes amid a surge in doping cases. “And that is why, for us, zero tolerance to doping is a war we cannot afford to lose.” The plans were unveiled in a report issued by an anti-doping steering committee set up in December after the government …

Kenyan athlete Betty Wilson Lempus gets five-year ban for doping violation
1 year, 11 months ago

Kenyan athlete Betty Wilson Lempus gets five-year ban for doping violation

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Kenya’s Betty Wilson Lempus has been handed a five-year ban for using the prohibited substance triamcinolone acetonide and tampering with doping control, the Athletics Integrity Unit said on Thursday. After Lempus provided medical documents to show that the administration was not through a prohibited route, further investigation by the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya for the AIU showed the documents had …

2021 Boston Marathon winner Diana Kipyokei and Betty Wilson Lempus of Kenya provisionally suspended for doping
2 years, 2 months ago

2021 Boston Marathon winner Diana Kipyokei and Betty Wilson Lempus of Kenya provisionally suspended for doping

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Kenya’s 2021 Boston Marathon winner Diana Kipyokei and compatriot Betty Wilson Lempus have been provisionally suspended for using the banned substance triamcinolone acetonide, the Athletics Integrity Unit said on Friday. “After extensive investigations, the AIU has provisionally suspended two Kenyan marathoners – Diana Kipyokei and Betty Wilson Lempus – and charged them with various breaches of the World Athletics Anti-Doping …

Three-year ban slammed on India sprinter Dhanalakshmi for failing dope test
2 years, 5 months ago

Three-year ban slammed on India sprinter Dhanalakshmi for failing dope test

India TV News  

Indian sprinter Dhanalakshmi Sekar is banned by the Athletics Integrity Unit of the world governing body for three years. Rule 10.8.1 of World Athletics Anti-Doping Rules provides that "an athlete potentially subject to an asserted period of Ineligibility of four years may benefit from a one-year reduction in the period of ineligibility based on early admission and acceptance of sanction. …

Tokyo Olympics: Kenyan sprinter Mark Otieno tests positive for banned substance
3 years, 5 months ago

Tokyo Olympics: Kenyan sprinter Mark Otieno tests positive for banned substance

The Hindu  

Kenya's Mark Otieno, a 100 metres sprinter, has tested positive for a banned substance, Team Kenya said in a statement, and will not take part in the Olympic qualifying heats on Saturday. "We have received communication this afternoon from International Testing Agency regarding one of our sprinters who has had an Adverse analytical finding on a urine sample he provided …

Long Distance Runner Sunil Vishwakarma's Tests Positive for Banned Substance
3 years, 9 months ago

Long Distance Runner Sunil Vishwakarma's Tests Positive for Banned Substance

News 18  

Uttar Pradesh’s long distance runner Sunil Vishwakarma’s bid of making it to this year’s Tokyo Olympic Games seems to be crumbling after he tested positive for banned substance, said a national level coach. The ‘A’ sample of the 23-year-old athlete has tested positive for Erythropoietin, a performance enhancing drug banned by the World Anti Doping Agency. Athletes could face a …

Kenyan runner banned for fleeing anti-doping staff- Sportstar
4 years, 3 months ago

Kenyan runner banned for fleeing anti-doping staff- Sportstar

The Hindu  

Kenyan long-distance runner Patrick Siele has been banned for three-and-a-half years for fleeing from anti-doping officials who were trying to collect a sample, the Athletics Integrity Unit said on Thursday. Siele is the latest in a long line of Kenyan athletes to be sanctioned in recent years, including 2008 Olympic 1,500m champion Asbel Kiprop, former Boston and Chicago Marathon winner …

Doping: Runner Kiranjeet Kaur handed four-year ban
4 years, 7 months ago

Doping: Runner Kiranjeet Kaur handed four-year ban

The Hindu  

Long-distance runner Kiranjeet Kaur has been handed a four-year ban by World Athletics’ anti-doping body for testing positive for a banned substance. The National Dope Testing Laboratory has been suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency and so Kaur’s samples were tested in the WADA-accredited laboratory in Doha. “Disqualification of all competitive results obtained by the athlete between 15 December 2019 …

Sanjivani Jadhav long distance runner handed two-year suspension for doping
5 years, 5 months ago

Sanjivani Jadhav long distance runner handed two-year suspension for doping

The Hindu  

The Athletics Integrity Unit has handed a two-year suspension to 23-year-old long distance runner Sanjivani Jadhav for testing positive for probenecid, a banned substance under the category Diuretics and Masking Agents, in-competition twice last year. Sanjivani, whose urine samples collected during the TCS World 10k and National inter-state athletics championships, said that she had not taken probenecid knowingly. However, the …

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