Athletics|Kenyan endurance running star Rhonex Kipruto loses his ME results and WC medals.
Kenyan endurance runner Rhonex Kipruto has been sentenced to a six-year suspension for using banned substances in sports, reports Athletics Weekly, among others in X.
At the same time, the results of Kipruto, 24, have been invalidated from September 2018 until May 2023. He will be released from the collar in May 2029.
With the annulment of the results, Kipruto will lose the 10,000-meter World Championship bronze he ran in 2019 and the 10-kilometer cross-country ME time of 26:24 he ran in 2020.
Kipruto your cart due to the ambiguities found in his biological passport. The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), which oversees the ethics of athletics, found him guilty of blood doping.
Kipruto can still appeal the decision to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, Cas.
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