Kenya's Emmaculate Anyango, the world's second fastest woman over 10km, has been provisionally suspended after a failed doping test, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said Friday.
Kenya’s Emmaculate Anyango, the world’s second fastest woman over 10km, has been provisionally suspended after a failed doping test, the Athletics Integrity Unit said Friday.
An African U20 3,000m silver medallist in 2019, Anyango has been tipped as one of the East African nation’s rising stars. Anyango also defied a strong field that included former New York and London marathon champion Joyciline Jepkosgei to win the women’s cross-country race at Sirikwa Classic, a World Athletics Tour Gold meeting in Kenya’s northwest in February.
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