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IAAF Ratifies Half-Marathon World Record
Posted July 18th, 2007 at 10:30 AM by David Monti
Section: News & Results, Marathons
The IAAF announced today that they had ratified Kenyan Samuel Wanjiru’s most recent world record for the half-marathon, but had rejected his previous mark for lack of a proper doping control. Also, Wanjiru’s record was ratified at a value two seconds faster than was previously reported.
At the Fortis City-Pier-City Half-Marathon in Den Haag on Saturday, March 17, Wanjiru was clocked at 58 minutes and 35 seconds, his second pending world record set this year (he also ran 58:53 at then Ras Al Khaimah International Half-Marathon in the United Arab Emirates on February 9). Surprisingly, Wanjiru’s mark from Den Haag has been revised downward by two seconds to 58:33. No explanation was given for the revision.
Wanjiru’s previous record from the UAE was rejected by the IAAF because the athlete did not undergo a doping test for EPO, the blood-boosting drug which elevates the concentration of oxygen-carrying red blood cells.
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