World marathon champion Peres Jepchirchir suspended after testing positive for banned substance

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Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya, world champion and Olympic marathon champion, has been suspended pending the completion of a disciplinary process after testing positive for EPO in an out-of-competition doping test. According to Ynet, the runner who won the Sydney Marathon last August failed the test after abnormal EPO findings were detected in her sample.

According to Haaretz, Jepchirchir recently won the Sydney Marathon in a time of 2:18:31 hours.