The former Marathon world record holder Wilson Kipsang of Kenya has been blocked by the independent integrity Commission AIU of the world athletics Federation World Athletics (WA) for violations of the Anti-Doping rules for four years. As the AIU announced this Friday, are accused of the Olympic third of London 2012 failures in the reporting obligation, as well as Manipulation.
Kipsang had on 29. September 2013 at the Berlin-Marathon, improved the world record by 15 seconds to 2:03:23 hours. The following year, he was dethroned in the same place by his compatriot Dennis Kimetto in 2:02:57. This mark lasted four years before Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya) was also in the German capital in 2:01:39 hours.
World Athletics had classified Kenya in November 2018 in the case of the division into the newly created doping of the categories in the group A of the "high risk countries". Two years earlier, had even threatened the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro. This could be due to a new Anti-Doping law prevents. Nevertheless, there were also numerous other cases of doping in Kenyan athletics.
Date Of Update: 03 July 2020, 11:19
