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When interviewed in April by the AIU, Chepngetich, the first woman to run a marathon in under 2:10, could not provide an explanation for the positive test.<\/p>\n
While HCTZ has a minimum reporting level of 20 nanograms per millilitre (ng\/mL) in urine, Chepngetich’s sample showed an estimated concentration of 3,800 ng\/mL.<\/p>\n
Traces of HCTZ below the minimal reporting level were also identified in a sample collected from Chepngetich two weeks earlier, on 28 February.<\/p>\n
At a later interview on 11 July, Chepngetich was presented with the aforementioned suspicious evidence acquired from her phone. In the meantime, contamination had also been disproven by the AIU.<\/p>\n
Chepngetich changed her explanation on 31 July, claiming that she had taken her housemaid’s medication – marked as being HCTZ – after becoming ill two days before the positive test.<\/p>\n
The AIU had “serious reservations about the credibility of the new version of events” and, in the context of the sport’s anti-doping rules, such “recklessness” is considered “indirect intent, for which an increased four-year sanction applies”. <\/p>\n
An automatic one-year reduction was applied after Chepngetich admitted the anti-doping rule violations within the 20 days required.<\/p>\n
The three-year ban commenced on 19 April – when Chepngetich accepted a voluntary provisional suspension – with the athlete’s results, awards, titles, appearance and prize money since 14 March forfeited.<\/p>\n
AIU chair David Howman said the case underlined that “nobody is above the rules”.<\/p>\n
“While disappointing for those who put their trust in this athlete, this is how the system is supposed to work,” Howman said.<\/p>\n
“The road-running industry should be commended for collectively funding anti-doping efforts capable of uncovering doping violations committed by elite athletes in their events.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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