NN running team athletes banned from doping for 3 years
Kenyan marathon runner Philemon Katcheran Lokedi who to train with Eliud Kipchoge The NN running team was banned for three years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) after an out-of-competition sample taken on April 27 tested positive for exogenous testosterone.
Katchelan was selected to represent Kenya in the 2022 Commonwealth Games marathon, but was provisionally suspended and left out of the squad on 8 July.
He faced a four-year ban for violations under World Athletics’ anti-doping rules, but “early recognition and acceptance of sanctions” reduced his ban to three years.
Kacheran’s personal best is 2:05:19. he ran and came in third At the 2021 Valencia Marathon in December.
In 2019, Kacheran served as the pacemaker for Kipchoge’s sub-2 hour marathon success. INEOS-1:59 Challenge explained by Kipchoge’s coach. Patrick Sang as one of his strongest training partners. He is the second of his INEOS pacemakers to be given a doping ban, after his compatriots. Alex Corio In 2020, he was suspended for two years for leaking his whereabouts information.
On Tuesday morning after the news broke, Kacheran said: team list On the NN Running Team website.
Kacheran is the ninth Kenyan athlete to be banned by the AIU since July, including the 2019 Boston and Chicago Marathon winners. Lawrence Cherono.
Kenya is one of seven countries identified by the AIU as having the highest risk of doping and threatening the integrity of the sport as a whole.
NN running team athletes banned from doping for 3 years
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