Career in ruins

Doping! Long ban for marathon runner Cherono

Kenyan marathon runner Lawrence Cherono has been banned for seven years for doping and subsequent cover-up attempts and is likely to have reached the end of his career!

According to the independent integrity agency (AIU) of the International Association of Athletics Federations, the 35-year-old 2021 Olympic silver medallist admitted to the allegations after he tried to explain a positive doping test with falsified documents.

Provisionally banned on July 16, 2022
Cherono was one of the most successful runners of the year over the 42.195 kilometers in 2019 with victories in the major marathon races in Boston and Chicago. On May 23, 2022, he tested positive for the heart medication trimetazidine and was provisionally banned on July 16 of the same year.

His current ban runs from this date. As he finally admitted the allegations and accepted a ban, it was reduced from eight to seven years.