18-10-2019 13:39 via kvoa.com

African champion Tsegu suspended for positive doping test

MONACO (AP) — The 10,000-meter champion at the African Games has been provisionally suspended in a doping case.
The Athletics Integrity Unit says Berehanu Tsegu of Ethiopia was notified that he is being investigated after testing positive for EPO, a banned endurance-boosting hormone.
Tsegu was 19 in August when he won the African Games title in Morocco. He placed third at the Copenhagen half marathon last month when a world record was set by Kenyan runner Geoffrey Kamworor.
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