The distance corridor became the first female athlete in history to run a marathon in less than two hours and 10 minutes
Ruth Chepng’etich, the current post of the marathon record of the female world, has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit.
The Kenyan, who won the Chicago Marathon last year in a RUINA record 2:09:56, gave positive for hydrochlorotiazide on March 14.
Hydrochlorotiazide is a diuretic clinician and used to treat the retention and hypertension of liquids. It is listed as a prohibited substance under the code of the World Anti -Doping Agency (Wada) and can be abused of masking the presence in urine for prohibited drugs. The standard sanction for positive HCTZ test is a two -year prohibition.
According to Wada’s technical requirements for laboratories, HCTZ has a minimum report of 20 ng/ml in urine, which means that findings below this concentration are informed as negative. Aiu states that Chepng’etich had an estimated concentration of 3800 ng/ml in his urine.
After the AIU received the positive show of Chepng’etich on March 14, a “charge notice” was issued against the 30 -year -old, after an investigation into the positive test of the Kenyan athlete on April 3.
Chepng’etich was notified and interviewed in person by the Aiu in Kenya on April 16. Two days later, the Kenyan announced that he retired from the TCS London marathon because “it was not the right place.”
Brett Clothier, head of the AIU, said: “When there is a positive proof for diuretics and masking agents, a provisional suspension is not mandatory under the world anti -doping code. Chepng’etich was not grazing provisionally, but of the time of the provisional suspension of the Auty 19 19 while the Aiu investigation was ongoing.”
After continuing its own duration of the investigation in that period, the AIU has now issued its own provisional suspension.
The distance corridor has only competed once this year, he took second place with 66:20 in the Lisbon Marathon, and that was five days before the positive test on March 14.
She is the sixth Kenya to be provisionally suspended by the AIU this year after Ronald Kimeli Kurgat, Kibiwott Kandie, Sheila Chelangat, Benard Kibet Koech and Morine Geare Michira.
Chepng’etich has the right to be heard before a disciplinary court.
