Kenyan long-distance runner returned a constructive check after making the rostrum at this 12 months’s Rome Marathon
Brian Kipsang, who clocked 2:07:58 for second on the Rome Marathon (March 16), has obtained a two-year ban from the Athletics Integrity Unit after testing constructive for a prohibited substance.
The 30-year-old’s in-competition urine pattern returned a constructive check of triamcinolone acetonide – which has been named on the World Anti-Doping Company (WADA) prohibited checklist since 2014.
Kipsang was judged by the Athletics Integrity Unit to not have a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) for the substance.
The AIU stated: “On April 22, as a result of athlete’s failure to request the B Pattern evaluation by the April 9 deadline, the AIU wrote to the athlete and confirmed that he was deemed to have irrevocably waived his proper to the B Pattern evaluation.
“He then had till April 25 to reply in relation to the opposite issues set out by the AIU on April 9. On Could 1, the AIU obtained an admission of anti-doping rule violations and acceptance of penalties kind signed by the athlete.”
Kipsang’s consequence from the 2025 Rome Marathon has been disqualified, together with the forfeiture of any medals, rankings factors and look cash. Nonetheless, his second place end from final 12 months’s version – he clocked 2:07:56 within the Italian capital – nonetheless stands.
Given the AIU acknowledged the violations weren’t intentional and Kipsang additionally admitted to them, the ban was set on the obligatory two and never 4 years – from Could 1, 2025.
Learn the total AIU findings right here
