The Kenyan athlete Rhonex Kipruto was suspended for 6 years for dopingas reported this Wednesday by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU, for its acronym in English).
Because of this, the 24-year-old distance runner lost to 10km world record on the road and a world bronze medal.
Kipruto, who took bronze in the 10,000m of Doha World Cup 2019was temporarily suspended in May of last year, and is now definitively suspended until May 2029.
Cyprus broke the 10 km record in 2020 in Valencia and, a year earlier he won the Stockholm Diamond League 10,000m, but both results will now be annulled.
A disciplinary tribunal established that there is irregularities in the biological passport of the athlete, showing differences that reflect the effects of doping.
“The Court rejected Kipruto’s defense, concluding that ‘the cause of the anomalies in the biological passport was probably due to blood manipulation, such as through the use of recombinant human erythropoietin (rEPO),'” he said. added that there is no other reasonable explanation for the abnormal values.
The athlete denied the allegations, but the court said the Kenyan was involved in a “deliberate and sophisticated doping regime for a long time.”
Kipruto can still appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Source: La Verdad
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