Edna Kiplagat of Kenya has formally grow to be a two-time Boston Marathon champion. The BAA elevated Kiplagat to 2021 Boston Marathon winner on Tuesday after the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) handed down a six-year suspension to former 2021 champion Diana Kipyokei. Kipyokei examined constructive for triamcinolone acetonide (a corticosteroid)–a banned anti-inflammatory substance–post-race in Boston.
Kipyokei was additionally suspended for offering deceptive data in her makes an attempt to elucidate her use of the substance, together with “pretend documentation which she alleged got here from a hospital,” in response to the AIU. Kipyokei’s provisional suspension was introduced Oct.14, however started on June 27 and her six-year ban has been backdated to June.
Kiplagat is now a two-time Boston Marathon champion, after successful the race in 2017 (she additionally ran to second in 2019). Kiplagat, 43, is extensively considered one of many all-time greats in distance working.
Dubbed the “Queen of Persistence,” Kiplagat has competed at each the Olympic and World championship marathons, taking gold twice on the World champs in 2011 and 2013, and silver in 2017. Kiplagat has run all six of the Abbott World Marathon Majors.
The Colorado-based athlete gained the Abbott World Marathon Sequence VIII (2013–14) and was named the Sequence V (10–2011) champion following the disqualification of Russian athlete Liliya Shobukhova.
Kiplagat gained each the London Marathon (2014) and New York Marathon (2010) with many second-place finishes. In 2021 she gained the 7-mile (11.3 km) Falmouth Highway Race, working away from the sector within the second half of the race to interrupt the tape in 36 minutes, 52 seconds.
