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She finished third in the 2005 Turin Marathon and seventh at the 2005 World Championships. In 2007, she finished fourth in Boston, attempting to defend her title, and was quoted as saying, "I never felt good in the cold.
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She finished third in the 2005 Turin Marathon and seventh at the 2005 World Championships. In 2007, she finished fourth in Boston, attempting to defend her title, and was quoted as saying, "I never felt good in the cold.
She was the bronze medalist at the 2006 IAAF World Road Running Championships. Jeptoo tested positive for EPO in an out-of-competition test 25 September 2014. Athletics Kenya handed her a two-year ban from sports for the anti-doping rule violation.
She ended her 2007 with a new course record at the Obudu Ranch International Mountain Race, earning United States$50,000 as a result.
She was among the leading runners at the Boston and New York marathons that season, finishing third and fourth respectively. She took time off from running for maternity leave from late 2008 onwards, returning to competition in 2011.
The Rotterdam Marathon was her return marathon outing and she came fifth with a time of 2:28:09 hours. She ran her fastest marathon time since 2005 at the Frankfurt Marathon, taking fifth place after 2:25:44 hours.
She came fourth at the Beach to Beacon 10K and Falmouth Road Race, but delivered her best performance in half a decade at the 2012 Chicago Marathon.
A tight duel with Atsede Baysa in the latter stages of the race resulted in her narrowly finishing as runner-up, but her time of 2:22:04 hours knocked over a minute and half off her six-year-old personal best. The 2013 RAK Half Marathon was so fast that Jeptoo improved her best to 66:27 minutes—making her the fifth fastest ever—but left her in third place in the race. However, she had a positive doping test in her "A" sample, given in Kenya two weeks before the race.
Her agent Federico Rosa, a prominent name in elite marathon running, confirmed the fact but refused to reveal the responsible substance.
lieutenant was later revealed that the prohibited substance was EPO, and she was banned for two years by Athletics Kenya. On Tuesday 21 April 2015 the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced it had received two separate appeals pertaining to the ban.
One, from Jeptoo, asked that the challenged decision be set aside, and the two-year suspension be lifted. The second was from the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF), who requested that Jeptoo"s ban be increased to four years, due to ".aggravating circumstances which it argues warrant an extended period of ineligibility.".
Rita defended her Chicago Marathon title in 2014, winning with a time of 2:24:35.