{"id":40640,"date":"2026-04-01T03:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/albert-korir-new-york-marathon-winner-given-five-year-doping-ban\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T03:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:24:17","slug":"albert-korir-new-york-marathon-winner-given-five-year-doping-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/albert-korir-new-york-marathon-winner-given-five-year-doping-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Korir: New York marathon winner given five-year doping ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former New York Marathon winner Albert Korir has been banned for five years after admitting to doping. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old Kenyan tested positive for CERA &#8211; a potent blood-boosting substance and modern variant of EPO &#8211; across three out-of-competition tests in October 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All of Korir&#8217;s results since October will now be disqualified, including his third place in the New York Marathon last November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Britain&#8217;s Patrick Dever has been promoted to a bronze medal after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/c3dn05l8ppvo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">finishing a second behind Korir<\/a> in a time of two hours, eight minutes and 58 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has said his ban will expire on 7 January 2031, with Korir benefiting from a one-year reduction by admitting to the violations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/c77mndp6erpo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former New York Marathon winner Albert Korir has been banned for five years after admitting to doping. The 32-year-old Kenyan tested positive for CERA &#8211; a potent blood-boosting substance and modern variant of EPO &#8211; across three out-of-competition tests in October 2025. All of Korir&#8217;s results since October will now be disqualified, including his third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40641,"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\/40640"}],"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=40640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40642,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40640\/revisions\/40642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}