MONACO — Monitor and discipline’s Athletics Integrity Unit mentioned Thursday that ladies’s marathon world record-holder Ruth Chepng’etich has been banned for 3 years after admitting a doping violation.
The AIU mentioned Chepng’etich admitted to anti-doping rule violations over the presence and use of the banned diuretic hydrochlorothiazide. She had been suspended in July.
The Kenyan runner broke the world file by nearly two minutes on the Chicago Marathon final yr in 2 hours, 9 minutes, 56 seconds.