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Kennedy Kiprop Cheboror slapped with a two-year ban by AIU

Kennedy Kiprop Cheboror is the latest Kenyan to be added to the list of shame after violating an anti-doping rule.

Kennedy Kiprop Cheboror is the latest addition to the doping list of shame after being slapped with a two-year ban by the Athletics Integrity Unit.

Earlier this year, the 33-year-old was provisionally suspended for whereabouts failures and after enough investigation, the athlete has now been banned for two years.

As per the AIU, all his results from December 27 have been disqualified after he missed three tests in the twelve-month period beginning on November 6, 2023. He first missed a test and a filing failure on November 6 last year.

Cheboror then missed other two tests on November 28 and December 27. As per the AIU, the athlete’s whereabouts information stated that he would be at an address in Kapsabet, Kenya on the first missed test during his specified 60-minute time slot between 19:00-20:00 (the “Camp Address”).

“In summary, a Doping Control Officer (“DCO”) and a Doping Control Assistant (“DCA”) arrived at the Camp Address on 6 November 2023 at 19:00.

“The DCO and the DCA met a man who informed them that the Athlete was in his off-season at his home (and consequently not at the Camp Address where he resided during the training season).

“The man called the Athlete and informed the DCO and the DCA that the Athlete had said that he was in Eldoret and would not be able to make it to the Camp Address within the 60-minute time slot.

“Therefore, on 9 November 2023, the AIU wrote to the Athlete requesting his explanation for an apparent Missed Test/Filing Failure which occurred on 6 November 2023 by no later than 23 November 2023,” AIU’s statement read in part.