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Ethiopia has unveiled a formidable team, setting up fierce competition for Kenya's finest athletes, including Faith Kipyegon, ...
The first major case of doping by a Kenyan athlete came in 2003 when Pamela Chepchumba, 2001 world cross country long race ...
Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich, who shattered the women’s marathon world record last year, has been provisionally suspended on suspicion of doping, the Athletics Integrity Unit said on Thursday.
Chepngetich, who is Kenyan, set the marathon world record at the 2024 Chicago Marathon in October, running 2:09:56 to break Tigist Assefa’s previous mark ... She was announced for the 2025 London ...
Addis Ababa, April 27, 2025 (ENA)—Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa smashed the women-only world record by 26 seconds at the TCS London Marathon, running 2:15:50* to win the World Athletics Platinum ...
Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa set a new women’s only world record of 2hr 15min 50sec as she won the London marathon whilst Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe put a star-studded men’s field to the sword.
LONDON (AP) — Running his first major marathon in unusually warm temperatures, Sabastian Sawe made it look easy. The Kenyan runner made a solo breakaway with more than 10 kilometers left and ...
Assefa sets women-only record In the women’s race, Tigst Assefa of Ethiopia secured her first London Marathon title after pulling away from Joyciline Jepkosgei near the end.