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Long-distance running Champion Chepngetich Receives 36-month Ban
Ruth Chepngetich exceeded Ethiopian record holder's female marathon global best by almost 120 seconds at the marathon event in Chicago in the year 2024.
Female long-distance world record-holder Ruth Chepngetich has been prohibited for 36 months after the Kenyan confessed to doping rule violations.
The record holder was temporarily banned in July following a positive test for a banned substance - a banned diuretic used commonly as a concealing drug - on March 14.
Chepngetich's accomplishments which pre-date that test - such as her global best time of two hours, nine minutes and 56 seconds in Chicago in 2024 - will remain valid.
The sports governing body had requested a four-year suspension but the 31-year-old penalty was lowered to 36 months because she confessed to the violations.
However, the AIU will keep examining evidence from Chepngetich's mobile device which it found suggest "strong grounds that her positive test may have been deliberate" - featuring messages dating back to 2022.
"This matter regarding the positive test for the substance has been settled, but the unit will keep looking into the questionable evidence recovered from the runner's device to determine if any other violations have taken place."
'No one is exempt from regulations'
When interviewed in the fourth month by the AIU, the marathoner, the initial female to complete a marathon in less than 2 hours 10 minutes, could not provide an reason for the failed test.
While the substance has a lowest detectable limit of 20 nanograms per millilitre (ng/mL) in samples, the athlete's test showed an estimated concentration of 3,800 ng/mL.
Traces of the diuretic below the detection threshold were also identified in a sample taken from Chepngetich 14 days prior, on 28 February.
At a subsequent meeting on July 11, the record holder was shown the previously mentioned questionable proof acquired from her phone. Meanwhile, contamination had also been disproven by the authority.
Chepngetich changed her explanation on July 31, claiming that she had used her housemaid's pills - marked as being the banned substance - after falling sick 48 hours prior to the positive test.
The AIU had "major doubts about the credibility of the revised account" and, in the framework of the sport's doping rules, such "carelessness" is deemed "indirect intent, for which an longer 48-month penalty applies".
An standard 12-month decrease was granted after the runner confessed to the anti-doping breaches inside the 20 days required.
The 36-month suspension commenced on April 19 - when Chepngetich agreed to a voluntary provisional suspension - with the competitor's results, honors, championships, participation and prize money from March 14 lost.
"No one is above the rules."
"While unfortunate for those who had faith in this runner, this is how the system is supposed to work."
"The road-running industry should be praised for collectively funding anti-doping efforts capable of revealing doping violations performed by top competitors in their events."
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