Salina Jebet has been banned for seven years after presenting forged medical papers to Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).
Last year, the 37-year-old Jebet urine sample presented to at the Cool City Liupanshui Summer Marathon in China returned a positive test for banned substance 19-norandrosterone.
AIU says that she presented false testimony which landed seven years ban.
She presented a payment request and a prescription from the Kapsabet County Referral Hospital and a letter from a Dr BK Tai dated August 21, 2023.
The AIU asked her to provide further documents, including a prescription dated March 3, 2023, an X-ray scan from the hospital done in July 2023, and Dr BK Tai’s license, while also requesting the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) to determine the veracity of the athlete’s assertions
ADAK’s response, however, confirmed that there was no record at the hospital’s database to determine that the athlete had received treatment at the facility. The hospital also does not stock Nandrolone and therefore no record of the drug being administered to any patient.
The hospital only had a record of the athlete visiting the facility in August 2023, after she had been flagged for the anti-doping rule violation, when she went to an outpatient clinic.
The medical facility also did not consider the letter bearing the athlete’s name which was presented to the AIU and the report from Dr Tai was found not to be authentic.