Kenyan runner Mark Kangogo has been served with a four-year ban from competitors by the Athletics Integrity Unit, owing to the drug-test outcomes of a pattern taken on the 2022 Sierre-Zinal. By advantage of an early admission of the violation, he has been granted a one-year discount on this ban.
A assertion from the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), which was began in 2017 by the Worldwide Affiliation of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to fight doping, issued on Wednesday, October 12, reads:
“On the idea that the athlete has admitted the Anti-Doping Rule violations beneath Rule 2.1 ADR and Rule 2.2 ADR, in accordance with Rule 10.2.1 ADR and the applying of Rule 10.8.1 ADR, the AIU confirms by this resolution the next penalties for a primary Anti-Doping Rule violation:
- a interval of ineligibility of three years commencing on 9 September 2022 (the date of provisional suspension); and
- disqualification of the athlete’s outcomes since and together with 13 August 2022, with all ensuing penalties, together with the forfeiture of any titles, awards, medals, factors prizes, and look cash.”
Mark Kangogo ending the 2022 Sierre-Zinal. Picture: Marco Gulberti/Corsa in Montagna
The outcomes of the Sierre-Zinal males’s race, of which Kangogo was the winner, have subsequently been overturned, with victory now going to Spain’s Andreu Blanes. Our 2022 Sierre-Zinal outcomes article reveals the up to date race outcomes.
Kangogo’s take a look at confirmed the presence of two banned substances — Norandrosterone, an androgen and anabolic steroid; and Triamcinolone Acetonide, an artificial corticosteroid — neither of which the athlete had secured a therapeutic exemption for.
This 12 months’s Sierre-Zinal was Kangogo’s first time competing within the mountains, and he completed the extremely aggressive 31-kilometer Swiss race in a time of two:27:31 — lower than two minutes shy of Kilian Jornet’s 2019 course document of two:25:35. He has already had a prolonged profession in street operating, and holds the course document for the ING Night time Marathon Luxembourg, which he received in 2018 in a time of two:12. This was his first doping conviction.
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