Kenyan 2:04:54 marathon runner Cornelius Kibet Kiplagat banned for 5 years for doping

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Kenyan long-distance runner Cornelius Kibet Kiplagat, who finished second in the Barcelona Marathon in March, has been given a five-year ban from competition.

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The Kenyan athletics are back in focus after a new case of doping that affects one of its elite racers in background testing. Cornelius Kibet Kiplagat, second ranked in the latest edition of the Zurich Marató Barcelona, has been sanctioned with five years of suspension by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after giving positive for the use of recombinant EPO and CERA, prohibited substances intended to improve performance.The sanction, confirmed …