Olympic and World Marathon Champion Peres Jepchirchir Suspended in Doping Case
The AIU said an out-of-competition sample collected before her Sydney Marathon win tested positive for EPO, triggering a provisional suspension.
- On Friday, the Athletics Integrity Unit provisionally suspended reigning world and former Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir after an adverse analytical finding for the banned substance EPO.
- The AIU stated that an out-of-competition sample, collected in Kenya prior to her recent Sydney Marathon victory, returned an adverse analytical finding for EPO.
- A four-time World Marathon Major winner, Jepchirchir claimed Tokyo Olympics gold in 2021 and world titles in the marathon and half-marathon.
- The agency announced the suspension on Friday, just one day after Ethiopia's former Tokyo Marathon winner Ruti Aga received a six-year ban for a positive test and tampering.
- Before her Sydney victory, Jepchirchir withdrew from this year's London Marathon following a stress fracture sustained after finishing second in the Valencia marathon last December.
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KENYAN marathon runner and Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir (33) has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for EPO.
The fastest countrywoman in the marathon received a temporary ban from competing on suspicion of violating anti-doping rules.
Interim suspension due to doping of the world and Olympic champion
It is a serious case of doping. Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir, the current world marathon champion, has been suspended by the International Athletics Federation after leading a positive result by EPO. It is one of the biggest recent doping scandals and, once again, comes to thicken the endless list of cheaters populated in recent years by Kenyan athletes. Jepchirchir, 33, was Olympic champion in Tokyo in 2021 and returned to triumph in the Japanese …
Peres Jepchirchir, 33, is the reigning world marathon champion. Now the Kenyan has been caught for doping.
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