This archive report was first published on 27 November 2019.
On November 27, 2019, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced that 17-year-old Kenyan athlete Angela Ndungwa Munguti had been handed a four-year ban for doping.
Munguti, a former African Youth Games 800m silver medallist, tested positive for Norandrosterone, a metabolite of anabolic steroid Nandrolone, in a sample taken on October 7, 2018, during an out-of-competition doping control programme at the Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires.
Her ban is effective from the date of the test, making her the first Kenyan teenager to be banned for doping.
Angela Munguti joins a growing list of Kenyan athletes who have failed drug tests this year, including women's 2016 Olympic marathon champion Jemima Sumgong and three-time World 1,500m winner Asbel Kiprop.
Earlier in November, two top long distances athletes, Abraham Kiptum and Cyrus Rutto, were suspended for four years each by the AIU for using prohibited substances.
