{"id":55902,"date":"2025-10-23T10:56:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/womens-marathon-world-record-holder-chepngetich-handed-three-year-doping-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:56:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:56:44","slug":"womens-marathon-world-record-holder-chepngetich-handed-three-year-doping-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/womens-marathon-world-record-holder-chepngetich-handed-three-year-doping-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s marathon world record-holder Chepngetich handed three-year doping ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Runner claimed she had taken housemaid\u2019s medication<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Controversial Chicago record will stand despite ban<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The women\u2019s marathon world record holder, Ruth Chepngetich, has been banned for three years after the Athletics Integrity Unit rejected her claim that her failed drugs test came from taking her housemaid\u2019s medication after feeling hot and having a rapid resting heartbeat.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan stunned the world when she ran <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/oct\/13\/womens-world-record-marathon-ruth-chepngetich-chicago-marathon\">2hr 9min 56sec at the Chicago marathon <\/a>in 2024, a time that shattered the previous best by almost two minutes. However her performance was immediately questioned by many in the athletics world who felt it was too good to be true.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/oct\/23\/womens-world-record-marathon-record-holder-ruth-chepngetich-banned-three-years-doping-athletics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Runner claimed she had taken housemaid\u2019s medication Controversial Chicago record will stand despite ban The women\u2019s marathon world record holder, Ruth Chepngetich, has been banned for three years after the Athletics Integrity Unit rejected her claim that her failed drugs test came from taking her housemaid\u2019s medication after feeling hot and having a rapid resting &#8230; <a title=\"Women\u2019s marathon world record-holder Chepngetich handed three-year doping ban\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/23\/womens-marathon-world-record-holder-chepngetich-handed-three-year-doping-ban\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Women\u2019s marathon world record-holder Chepngetich handed three-year doping ban\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}