{"id":943487,"date":"2026-10-23T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943487\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:20:09","slug":"world-and-olympic-marathon-champion-jepchirchir-suspended-after-positive-doping-test-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943487\/","title":{"rendered":"World and Olympic marathon champion Jepchirchir suspended after positive doping test | Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">In a fresh hammer blow for Kenyan athletics, world marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir has been provisionally suspended for doping, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/athletics\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Athletics<\/a> Integrity Unit announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The highly-decorated 33-year-old Kenyan, who won Olympic gold in the Covid-delayed Tokyo Games in 2021, was suspended after an out-of-competition sample tested positive for banned blood booster EPO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The athlete is provisionally suspended while the case is investigated, while the AIU said Jepchirchir\u2019s out-of-competition sample had been collected in Kenya prior to her recent Sydney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/marathon\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marathon<\/a> victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">More than 140 Kenyan athletes, including current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/oct\/23\/womens-world-record-marathon-record-holder-ruth-chepngetich-banned-three-years-doping-athletics\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">women\u2019s marathon world record-holder Ruth Chepngetich<\/a>, have been suspended or banned by the AIU since 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Jepchirchir\u2019s lauded career includes a world record in the half-marathon while she is a four-time World Marathon Major winner, having captured the Sydney Marathon (2026), the London Marathon (2024), the Boston Marathon (2022) and the New York Marathon (2021).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The decision of World Athletics to award Nairobi the 2029 world championships is likely to increase the scrutiny of the east African nation\u2019s anti-doping policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a fresh hammer blow for Kenyan athletics, world marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir has been provisionally suspended for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-943487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}