Lead image for Kenyan race walker Stephen Ndangiri suspended for doping.
The Anti-doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) has suspended race walker, Stephen Ndangiri, for using banned performance-enhancing substances just a week after the 20-year-old claimed a historic silver medal in men’s 10,000 metres race walk at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
ADAK has flagged down Ndangiri, a Lance Corporal at the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), for using the banned Erythropoietin (EPO), Peptide Hormones, among other banned substances.
A sample collected from the 20-year-old in an out-of-competition test on June 30, 2026 when Team Kenya was in camp at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani, has tested positive for the banned substances.
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The sample was collected when the athlete was in residential training camp with his team mates ahead of the 2026 Commonwealth Games which took place in Glasgow, Scotland.
On Friday, August 7, 2026, ADAK indicated on its website that Ndangiri had failed a dope test, and his provisional suspension will run from August 5, 2026. The athlete has the liberty to challenge or appeal the suspension.
On July 31, 2026, Ndangiri, the Africa 20km silver medallist, handed Kenya her first ever silver medal in men’s 10,000m race walk at the Commonwealth Games in a national record. He clocked 38 minutes and 46.57 seconds to settle for silver behind 19-year-old Isaac Beacroft from Australia who won in 38:45.51.
Ndangiri broke the national record of 39:23.14 set by Samuel Gathimba at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where he finished fifth.