Friday 14th March, 2025 05:49 PM|
Kenyan long-distance runner Kibiwott Kandie has been suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for violation of anti-doping guidelines.
According to the AIU statement dated Friday, March 14, 2025, Kandie has been charged for evading, refusing, or failing to undergo pattern assortment.
Kandie is a former half marathon file holder in Valencia in 2020.
He additionally gained a silver medal within the males’s race on the 2020 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Gdynia, Poland, on October 17, 2020.
The suspension of the Kenyan provides to a current pattern of kenyan athletes getting within the dangerous books of the sports activities integrity unit.
Early within the yr, Brimin Misoi and Geoffrey Yegon had been suspended by the AIU for comparable offences.
Misoi is a double marathon winner with victories within the 2022 Frankfurt Marathon and the 2024 success in Sydney, Australia. He was suspended on February 24.
2025 suspension
Meanwhile, Yegon was handed a two-year ban on February 11, 2025, for the presence/use of a prohibited substance.
In everything of 2024, Kenya recorded a complete of six circumstances of suspension from the AIU with Jackline Wambui being the high-profiled in them.
The athlete was provisionally suspended pending her enchantment within the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS).
AIU, established by the World Athletics, is remitted to guard the integrity of the game of Athletics, together with fulfilling World Athletics’ obligations.
As a signatory to the World Anti-Doping Code, the World Athletics has delegated implementation of the World Athletics Anti-Doping Rules to the AIU, together with however not restricted to the next actions in relation to International-Level Athletes: Testing, Investigations, Results Management, Hearings, Sanctions and Appeals.
Provisional suspension
A provisional suspension is when an athlete or some other p[particular person is suspended briefly from taking part in any competitors or exercise in athletics earlier than a last resolution at a listening to is performed.
In doping circumstances, a Provisional Suspension is obligatory underneath the World Athletics Anti-Doping Rules following an adversarial analytical discovering for any non-specified substance on the prohibited record.