Kenya's Manangoi gets two-year ban for anti-doping violation: AIU
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[November 14, 2020]
By Omar Mohammed
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's former
1,500 metres world champion Elijah Manangoi has been handed a
two-year ban for anti-doping violations after missing three tests
under whereabouts rules, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on
Friday.
Manangoi, who will be ineligible to compete at next year's Tokyo
Olympics, was provisionally suspended in July and the AIU said his
ban comes into effect from Dec. 22 2019 which was the date of the
third "whereabouts failure".
The ruling means the disqualification of all Manangoi's competitive
results since then "with all resulting consequences, including the
forfeiture of any titles, awards, medals, points prizes and
appearance money," AIU said in its statement.
Manangoi's ban comes after American 100 metres world champion
Christian Coleman was also suspended for two years last month for
breaching whereabouts rules.
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Manangoi joins a list of Kenyan athletes who have been sanctioned in
recent years, including 2008 Olympic 1,500m champion Asbel Kiprop,
former Boston and Chicago Marathon winner Rita Jeptoo and 2016
Olympic marathon champion Jemimah Sumgong.
The 27-year-old Manangoi won the world title in 2017 in London and
bagged gold at the Commonwealth Games a year later. A stress
fracture sidelined him from defending his world crown last year.
The AIU said on Friday that Manangoi missed his first test on July 3
last year. He said that was the result of a delayed flight holding
up his luggage where he had put his house keys.
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Kenya's Elijah Motonei
Manangoi celebrates winning the men's 1500m. REUTERS/Ibraheem Al
Omari
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"As he did not have his house keys, he had stayed in the nearest
airport hotel which led in turn to his missed test in Rongai the
following morning," the AIU said.
Manangoi explained the reason for missing his second test on Nov. 12
2019 as being due to bad traffic delaying his arrival at the test
location, according to the AIU.
Regarding his third missed test on Dec. 22 2019, Manangoi told the
AIU he was in Austria for treatment on an injury and asked a third
party to inform the authorities he would not be back in Kenya in
time for the test but they failed to do so.
"The Delegate mistakenly failed to appreciate that the Athlete would
not in fact arrive back in Nairobi until after his 60-minute time
slot... on 22 December 2019 and therefore did not update his
information for that date," according to the AIU.
The AIU said on Friday that Manangoi had accepted the punishment for
his violation and waived his right "to have those consequences
determined by the Disciplinary Tribunal."
(Reporting by Omar Mohammed; Editing by Ken Ferris)
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