Last yr’s Boston Marathon winner Diana Chemtai Kipyokei has been disqualified from the race after changing into the newest Kenyan athlete to be sanctioned for doping, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) introduced on Tuesday. Kipyokei, who was provisionally suspended in October, was hit with a six-year ban for multi-doping violations after testing optimistic for triamcinolone after the race in Boston after which utilizing false paperwork in an try to excuse herself.  Triamcinolone is a glucocorticoid which was nonetheless authorised in sure varieties in 2021 earlier than being completely banned in competitors for the reason that begin of this yr.

The 28-year-old gained the Boston Marathon in October 2021, one of many six “major” marathons, after which her doping take a look at confirmed up an ‘antagonistic analytical discovering’ (AAF). “With investigative assistance from the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK), the AIU discovered that Kipyokei provided false/misleading information in trying to explain her AAF, including fake documentation which she alleged came from a hospital,” stated the AIU assertion.

“As a result, Kipyokei will now be disqualified as the 2021 Boston Marathon women’s winner.”

She shall be suspended till June 2028 whereas fellow-Kenyan Edna Kiplagat, who got here second in Boston, is now listed because the race winner. The IAU additionally introduced on Tuesday the five-year suspension of one other Kenyan athlete, Purity Cherotich Rionoripo, for testing optimistic for the diuretic furosemide and likewise utilizing false paperwork. The 29-year-old Rionoripo gained the Paris Marathon in 2017 and Prague in 2021.

Kenyan athletics has been affected by doping instances for a number of years, with greater than 25 recorded in 2022. Sprinter Mark Otieno was amongst three Kenyan athletes banned by the AIU on Monday.

Kenya vowed early this month to scrub up its act after escaping a World Athletics ban for doping that threatened to make the east African observe and subject powerhouse a sporting pariah.

The athletics large has been within the high class on the World-Anti Doping Agency watch listing since February 2016, alongside solely Bahrain, Belarus, Ethiopia, Morocco, Nigeria and Ukraine. There are 55 Kenyans listed on the AIU’s world listing of ineligible athletes, final up to date on November 30.

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