Kenyan Rhonex Kipruto, the 10 km road race world record holder, has been banned for six years.

This is because of irregularities found in his Athlete Biological Passport.

This means 24-year-old Kipruto will be stripped of his record.

He set the record in Valencia, Spain in 2020, and the 10,000m bronze medal he won at the 2019 World Championships.

Kipruto will be banned until May 2029.

According to the BBC, ABP is an electronic record which tracks an athlete’s biomarkers over their career.

If these markers change dramatically it warns administrators that the athlete might be doping.

“The Tribunal rejected Kipruto’s defence, concluding the cause for the abnormalities in the ABP is more likely to be due to blood manipulation’ such as through the use of recombinant human erythropoietin (rEPO),”

“There was ‘no other plausible explanation’ for the abnormal values.” Athletics Integrity Unit said.

Kipruto can appeal against the ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Nandrolone tops the list of the most prevalent performance-enhancing substances detected in Kenyan athletes standing at 35 per cent (49 of 138) of all (Adverse Analytical Findings (AAFs).

Others are corticosteroids, prednisone, prednisolone and methylprednisolone followed by 13 per cent (18 out of 138) of all Kenyan AAFs. They are administered orally or via injection.

The third most prevalent prohibited substance accounting for 12 per cent is Erythropoietin (EPO).

According to a report, doping is being facilitated by coaches, agents, managers and rogue officials keen on the dollar at the expense of the athletes.

Some of these athletes are at times not even aware of the nefarious designs of their handlers.

They have been made to imbibe liquids, tablets or injected with performance substances.

Other ways athletes use to dope is through massaging of the muscles and “a highly specialised scientific process that entails transfusing of oxygen-laden blood, known as blood doping”.

The country in athletics has enjoyed more success in middle and long-distance racing.

When Omanayala and Mark Otieno qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 minds started to change.

Sadly for Otieno, he was disqualified for two years for using a banned substance.

Omanyala a former rugby player became a Kenyan sprint star after his eye-catching performances.

Speaking to Justin Gatlin, the athlete said even Athletics Kenya doubted his talent and ability in sprints.

“When I joined sprints, it was so hard because nobody could believe a Kenyan would become a sprint star,” he said.

Omanyala said when he pursued sprinting he was mocked for trying to be the next Usain Bolt.

“I wanted to give this sport 100 per cent of my time and attention when I started, so when I took my deferment letter to the department at the university, the guy receiving it told me, ‘Are you even serious? Do you think you are Bolt, that you can make a life out of sprinting?’

“Nobody believed we could get to this level in sprints, even the federation, there was a time they stopped the heats after I had run just to confirm if the track was 100m long,” Omanyala shared.

WoK previously reported on how Omanyala was investing his millions.

The athlete spoke on investments he has made from millions he has earned from races.

In a sit-down interview with the Afrikan Traveler, the sportsman disclosed that he has invested in the real estate industry.

Omanyala joined hands with Ask Homes to develop ‘The Hills’ development in Ongata Rongai, Kajiado County.