{"id":13684,"date":"2025-10-24T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T07:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/kenyas-ruth-chepngetich-handed-three-year-ban-for-doping-violation\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:32","slug":"kenyas-ruth-chepngetich-handed-three-year-ban-for-doping-violation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenyas-ruth-chepngetich-handed-three-year-ban-for-doping-violation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya\u2019s Ruth Chepngetich handed three-year ban for doping violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Kenyan marathon world record-holder Ruth Chepngetich has been banned for three years after admitting to anti-doping rule violations.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The 31-year-old was provisionally suspended in July following a positive test for Hydrochlorothiazide, a banned diuretic often used as a masking agent, from a sample collected on March 14.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) initially sought a four-year ban, but her suspension was reduced after she admitted to the violations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Her previous achievements, including her world record time of two hours, nine minutes and 56 seconds at the Chicago Marathon in October 2024, will remain valid.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">However, the AIU says investigations are ongoing after evidence from Chepngetich\u2019s phone \u201cindicated a reasonable suspicion\u201d that her doping offence may have been intentional, with messages allegedly dating back to 2022.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13685,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-13684","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) initially sought a four-year ban, but her suspension was reduced after she admitted to the violations.","published_date":null,"news_description":"The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) initially sought a four-year ban, but her suspension was reduced after she admitted to the violations.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18692,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13684\/revisions\/18692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}