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Kenyan middle-distance runner Alfred Kipketer banned for two years

2016 Rio Olympics - Athletics - Semifinal - Men's 800m Semifinals - Olympic Stadium - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 13/08/2016. Alfred Kipketer (KEN) of Kenya. [Reuters, Lucy Nicholson]

23-year-old Kenyan middle-distance runner Alfred Kipketer has been handed a two-year ban by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) over whereabouts failures.

The 2014 World Under-20 800 meters champion becomes the latest in a long list of Kenyan athletes banned over the same from the start of last year, the first in 2021.

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