Kenyan Female Athlete Rita Jeptoo has been banned for two years following her failure in a drugs test.
Jeptoo, 33, has become the 45th Kenyan athlete to have failed a doping test having also tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in September.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) informed Athletics Kenya of traces of a banned substance in Jeptoo’s ‘A’ sample then.
Before, Kenyan marathon runners Wilson Loyanae Erupe and Nixon Kiplagat Cherutich also tested positive for banned substances in February 2013 and were both suspended for two years by Athletics Kenya.
Jeptoo, , winner of the Boston and Chicago marathons, told BBC that she may have been prescribed some banned substances at a local hospital after a road accident.
The ban follows Athletics Kenya’s announcement a few days ago that eight more Kenyan athletes have been suspended for between one to four years for taking performance- enhancing drugs according to BBC.
Last year 2014, Rita Jeptoo won the Boston and Chicago marathons setting a course record of 2:18:57 in the former.
Jeptoo won also marathons in Stockholm, and Milan in 2004.
She was number one again in the Paris and Boston marathon in 2006 before replicating the same performance in Lisbon in 2007 and in Boston and Chicago again in 2013.
Jeptoo represented Kenya at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and was the bronze medalist at the 2006 IAAF World Road Running Championships.
