Kenya’s Sarah Chepchirchir has been handed an eight-year ban after the previous Tokyo Marathon winner was discovered to have violated anti-doping laws for a second time.
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) stated the 39-year-old had returned an hostile analytical discovering for testosterone in a pattern collected at a marathon in Thailand in November.
Chepchirchir’s outcomes can be disqualified from 5 November final yr, along with her ban backdated to 22 December.
She was beforehand banned for 4 years in 2019, backdated to 11 April 2018, due to abnormalities in her athlete blood passport.
Chepchirchir, who gained the Tokyo Marathon in 2017, had the choice to have her newest ban lowered by one yr by formally admitting to the cost, however failed to take action by the AIU’s deadline of 11 February.
Final month the AIU banned Kenyan pair Hosea Kimeli Kisorio and Ayub Kiptum for 3 years, to be used of recombinant erythropoietin (EPO) and testosterone respectively.
In the meantime, the World Anti-Doping Company (Wada) has referred Nigeria’s anti-doping company to the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport over its alleged non-compliance.
The Nigerian physique was sanctioned by Wada in November for failing to deal with “important necessities”, however disputes Wada’s allegations.
Underneath Wada’s beneficial punishments, Nigeria’s flag wouldn’t be flown at competitions and the West African nation can be ineligible to host main sporting occasions till reinstatement situations have been met.