World Athletics Championships – Doha 2019 – Men’s 10,000 Metres Final – Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar – October 6, 2019 Kenya’s Rhonex Kipruto celebrates profitable bronze
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Kenyan distance runner Rhonex Kipruto, the 10-kilometre highway operating world record-holder, has been suspended for suspected doping, the Athletics Integrity Unit mentioned Wednesday.
Kipruto, who additionally received a bronze medal within the 10,000-meter race on the 2019 world championships, has been notified of a cost regarding irregularities in his athlete organic passport, the AIU mentioned.
The organic passport can detect attainable irregularities in blood values assessed over time with out an athlete testing optimistic for a banned substance. The 23-year-old Kipruto was suspected of utilizing a banned substance or technique, the AIU mentioned.
Kipruto’s administration firm mentioned the AIU knowledgeable Kipruto that the alleged irregularities in his organic passport dated again to late 2018, earlier than he received bronze on the worlds and set the 10K highway document. Ikaika Sports mentioned Kipruto denied doping and the case had been “under scrutiny for some time now.”
Kipruto was solely 19 when he completed third within the 10,000 on the 2019 worlds in Doha, Qatar. The race was received by Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda.
Months later in January 2020, Kipruto ran his world-record time of 26 minutes, 24 seconds in a 10-kilometer highway race in Valencia, Spain. He positioned ninth within the 10,000 on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Kipruto is the most recent in what has been an everyday stream of Kenyans to be banned or suspended for doping in recent times.
The AIU and authorities in Kenya have mentioned the East African nation, one of probably the most profitable in worldwide distance operating, has a doping “crisis.”
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