Mark Otieno Seeking Track Comeback As 2 Year Doping Ban Ends

• After two difficult years, Mark Otieno is back
• The Kenyan sprinter was banned after testing positive for banned substances
• He is looking to take part in the 2024 Olympics

Three-time 100m Kenyan national champion, Mark Otieno is clear to return to competitive running after serving his two-year doping ban. Otieno will not participate in the upcoming World Athletics Championships.

Otieno was set to take part in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics but was suspended after a failed drug test in Tokyo in 2021.

World Athletics was looking to ban the Kenyan for four years for violations of the Presence and Use of a Prohibited substance. Two of his urine samples tested positive for anabolic steroid methasterone. In November, a hearing was held to determine Otieno's case.

The 30-year-old was represented by SNO Legal Sports and Entertainment Law. The adjudicating panel found the source of the steroid was found in contaminated supplements. Therefore, the sprinter had no intention of using banned substances, as reported by Lynne Wachira.

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Since he was suspended before the 2020 (2021) Olympics, he served his suspension from July 31, 2021, to July 31, 2023.

Otieno's return to competition

Since the Kenyan team for the 2023 World Athletics has already been chosen, Otieno will have to wait for the 2024 Paris Olympics and the 2024 athletics season.

Before the ban, Otieno was enjoying the best period of his career. He narrowly lost to now Africa's fastest man, Ferdinand Omanyala in the Kenyan trials for Tokyo. He clocked 10.05 seconds (personal best) and was destined for great things in Japan.

Otieno is one of many Kenyan athletes who have had problems with the World Anti-Doping Agency. Omanyala was suspended for 14 months in 2017 by the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya after testing positive for a banned substance.

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Africa's fastest man will head to Budapest next month as one of the favorites in the men's 100m after a rapid rise in the sport.

Omanyala is currently the fastest man on the continent with a blistering time of 9.77 seconds, as captured by World Athletics, and is both an African and Commonwealth Champion.