Former marathon globe document holder Wilson Kipsang has been banned for 4 a long time for anti-doping rule violations.
Planet Athletics reported concerning April 2018 and May well 2019 the 38-yr-outdated Kenyan, 2 times a London Marathon winner, experienced missed four “whereabouts appointments”.
3 this kind of failures within just 12 months qualified prospects to an automated ban.
Kipsang explained he missed a check in Might 2019 due to the fact of a website traffic accident and presented a photo of the crash, but that was uncovered to be from August 2019.
The Globe Athletics Disciplinary Tribunal explained it experienced banned the Kenyan with influence from 10 January this calendar year for “whereabouts failures and tampering by giving bogus evidence and witness testimony”.
The Athletics Integrity Unit statement mentioned “proof demonstrates overwhelmingly that the athlete was engaged in tampering or attempted tampering in breach of the IAAF procedures”.
Kipsang, a bronze medallist at the 2012 London Olympics, had been provisionally suspended in January for whereabouts failures and tampering by furnishing false proof.
He also received the Berlin, New York and Tokyo marathons and is the sixth quickest marathon runner in record, with a personal very best of two hrs, three minutes and 13 seconds.
The Kenyan’s competitive outcomes from 12 April 2019 to 10 January 2020 were expunged, but he has the ideal to enchantment to the Court docket of Arbitration for Activity.
In current several years, Kenya’s 2008 Olympic 1500m champion Asbel Kiprop, former Boston and Chicago Marathon winner Rita Jeptoo and 2016 Olympic marathon winner Jemima Sumgong have all been sanctioned.
