{"id":32333,"date":"2025-07-17T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/ruth-chepngetich-womens-marathon-world-record-holder-suspended-for-doping\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:26:11","slug":"ruth-chepngetich-womens-marathon-world-record-holder-suspended-for-doping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/ruth-chepngetich-womens-marathon-world-record-holder-suspended-for-doping\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Chepngetich: Women’s marathon world record holder suspended for doping"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Ruth Chepngetich, the women’s marathon world record holder, has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for a banned substance.<\/b><\/p>\n

The diuretic hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) was detected in a sample collected from Kenyan Chepngetich on 14 March, the AIU said in a statement., external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Chepngetich, 30, broke the world record to win the Chicago Marathon<\/a> in October 2024, clocking a time of two hours, nine minutes and 56 seconds. <\/p>\n

HCTZ is used clinically to treat fluid retention and hypertension and is a prohibited at all times under the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) Code. <\/p>\n

Chepngetich’s time in Chicago surpassed Ethiopian Tigst Assefa’s previous record set at the 2023 Berlin Marathon by nearly two minutes. <\/p>\n

Used commonly as a masking agent, HCTZ has a minimum reporting level of 20 nanograms per millilitre (ng\/mL) in urine. Chepngetich’s sample showed 3,800 ng\/mL.<\/p>\n

Chepngetich was not provisionally suspended by the AIU at the time of notification on 16 April. However, on 19 April, she opted for a voluntary provisional suspension while the AIU’s investigation was ongoing. <\/p>\n

“In the intervening months, the AIU continued its investigation and today issued a Notice of Charge and imposed its own provisional suspension,” AIU head Brett Clothier said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Ruth Chepngetich, the women’s marathon world record holder, has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for a banned substance. The diuretic hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) was detected in a sample collected from Kenyan Chepngetich on 14 March, the AIU said in a statement., external Chepngetich, 30, broke the world record to win the Chicago […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32335,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32333\/revisions\/32335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}