Kenyan-born world champion runner to have doping hearing 5 weeks before Paris Olympics

Former steeplechase world champion Norah Jeruto faces a doping case hearing in June, five weeks before the Paris Olympics.

On Wednesday in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said it would hear an appeal by World Athletics on June 17 against a ruling last year that cleared the 2022 world gold medallist of suspected blood doping.

Jeruto had argued ulcers and a bout of COVID-19 could explain her blood test results in 2020 and 2021 that were later judged to be irregular. She did not test positive for a banned substance.

The Kenya-born Jeruto competed for Kazakhstan when she won gold in the 3,000-metre steeplechase at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Ore., but could not defend her title last year as she was suspended during an investigation.

The Athletics Integrity Unit implicated the 28-year-old Jeruto in banned blood transfusions and taking the endurance-boosting hormone EPO.

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