Audio By Carbonatix
Former marathon world record holder Wilson Kipsang of Kenya has been handed a four-year ban for Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs), the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Friday.
"The World Athletics Disciplinary Tribunal has banned long-distance runner Wilson Kipsang of Kenya for four years with effect from Jan. 10, 2020 for whereabouts failures and tampering by providing false evidence and witness testimony," the AIU said in a statement.
World Athletics said Kipsang had four whereabouts failures between April 2018 and May 2019. Three failures within 12 months leads to an automatic ban.
Kipsang, a bronze medallist at the 2012 Olympics, had been provisionally suspended in January for whereabouts failures and tampering by providing false evidence.
Latest Stories
-
OSP releases Baba Jamal on self-recognisance bail after interrogation
2 minutes -
BoG advocates practical framework to support orderly listing of banks on GSE
5 minutes -
Baba Jamal interrogated by Special Prosecutor over alleged vote-buying claims
16 minutes -
Hooked on survival: Human impact of climate-driven illegal fishing
28 minutes -
Agric economist demands end to political control in cocoa industry
52 minutes -
Speaker directs business committee to schedule anti-LGBTQ bill for parliamentary consideration
1 hour -
Inflation drop doesn’t mean prices have fallen – Oppong Nkrumah clarifies
1 hour -
Kenya to confront Russia over ‘unacceptable’ use of its nationals in combat
1 hour -
Running Ghana by elections, not by plans: Galamsey as the consequence
1 hour -
Israeli theatre scholar Prof Roy Horovitz brings cultural exchange to Ghana
1 hour -
Awula Serwaa slams Amansie Central Assembly over ‘Galamsey Tax’ defence
2 hours -
High airport infrastructure charges making Ghana’s aviation sector uncompetitive – stakeholders
2 hours -
Mining Indaba: African integration requires collective will – Armah-Kofi Buah
2 hours -
Drowning in hunger: Nawuni farmers struggle to survive amidst floods and climate change
2 hours -
15 women arrested in New Juaben South over human trafficking, sex work charges
2 hours