This photo taken on March 6, 2008, shows a runner powering up a country road during an early morning training run near a training camp in Kaptagat, Eldoret. Willy Chelawa, an upcoming athlete who competed in the Nairobi City Half Marathon where he emerged 65th, was found dead by his training partners, who did not see him in the morning for their usual training and were forced to look for him where he was residing at the Kaptagat Hotel.
The suspension of Siele, who finished 12th at Venloop Half Marathon in the Netherlands and ninth at Cardiff Half Marathon in Great Britain last year, comes three weeks after another Kenya’s long distance runner Philip Kangogo was handed a two-year ban for failing a doping test last year.
Siele and Kangogo join the long list of Kenyan athletes who have been banned for a period ranging from two years to eight years for violating the whereabouts rule or taking prohibited substances this year.
Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has banned Kenyan long distance runner, Patrick Siele for three years and six months for violating World Athletics anti-doping rules.
AIU indicated that Siele, who finished sixth at Shanghai International Marathon, China on November 17 last year, evaded, refused and failed to submit to sample collection in December last year in Kapsabet, Nandi County.
