Athletics: Four-year ban for Kipsang after giving fake-photo evidence for missed test

(From L) Kenya's Wilson Kipsang (2nd placed), Ethyopia's Kenenisa Bekele (winner) and Kenya's Evans Chebet (third placed) pose on the podium after the 43rd Berlin Marathon in Berlin on September 25, 2016. / AFP PHOTO

Former marathon world record holder Wilson Kipsang of Kenya has been handed a four-year ban for anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) that included using a fake photo of a traffic accident to justify one of four missed whereabouts appointments, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Friday.

World Athletics said Kipsang, a bronze medallist at the 2012 Olympics, had four whereabouts failures between April 2018 and May 2019. Three such failures within 12 months leads to an automatic ban.