World Athletics said
Kipsang had four whereabouts failures between April 2018 and May 2019. Three such
failures within 12 months lead to an automatic ban.
Former marathon world
record holder Wilson Kipsang of Kenya has been handed a four-year ban for
anti-doping rule violations.
Kipsang said he missed a
test on May 17, 2019 due to a traffic accident involving an overturned lorry
and also provided a photo of the crash. However, the image was found to be from
an accident recorded on Aug. 19, 2019.
“The World Athletics
Disciplinary Tribunal has banned long-distance runner Wilson Kipsang of Kenya
for four years with effect from Jan. 10, 2020 for whereabouts failures and
tampering by providing false evidence and witness testimony,” the AIU said in a
statement here
“The AIU considers that the
evidence demonstrates overwhelmingly that the athlete was engaged in tampering
or attempted tampering in breach of the IAAF rules,” it added in its ruling.
“The athlete engaged in
fraudulent and deceitful conduct by providing deliberately misleading and false
information to the AIU in an attempt to obstruct and delay the investigation
into his explanation and/or prevent normal procedures from occurring, namely
the recording of a Missed Test against him.”
Kipsang, a bronze medallist
at the 2012 Olympics, had been provisionally suspended in January for
whereabouts failures and tampering by providing false evidence.
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