Moyo passes doping test
prize money: Moyo
Long-distance runner Henry Moyo has passed a doping test and is now eligible to receive the R100 000 (about K3.7 million) prize for finishing sixth in the 90-kilometre Comrades Marathon in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa last Month.
The Malawi Police Service (MPS) sub-inspector will get K2 520 000 (R70 000) as his prize and K1 080 000 (R30 000) as a bonus reward from his sponsors at the event NedBank South Africa.
“Sometimes doping tests become tricky. You are not always hundred percent sure you will pass the test even if you took no banned substance before the race. This is why this latest doping test results have catapulted me to cloud nine,” Moyo said yesterday.
He admitted that his excitement at passing the test has also been triggered by the memory of his tough experience at the Kualar Lumpar Marathon in Malaysia in 2005 when he was stripped of a gold medal after medicine he took against a flu prior to the event was mistaken for a banned substance.
He said although he was later given the prize after organisers discovered he did not take a banned substance, his reputation was tainted.
“I never want to experience that bad luck again for the rest of my athletics career,” he said.
During the Comrades Marathon, Moyo crossed the finishing line 14 minutes behind the winner South African Claude Moshywa who clocked 5:46:51 hours.
Athletics Association of Malawi (AAM) president Godfrey Phiri is on record as saying they will build their hopes for medals at the 2016 Brazil Olympics around Moyo.
