New Delhi [India], April 4 (ANI): The two-time Commonwealth Games champion and Indian weightlifter Sanjita Chanu was handed a four-year ban by India’s National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) on Tuesday after she examined constructive for banned medication.
Chanu was examined through the National Games 2022 held in Gujarat in September-October and her assessments got here again constructive for drostanolone, an anabolic-androgenic steroid prohibited by the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA).
Drostanolone’s major medical use is to deal with superior inoperable circumstances of breast most cancers in girls. The steroid, nevertheless, is usually misused by athletes as a efficiency enhancer.
NADA had provisionally suspended the Indian weightlifter from the date of her pattern assortment and introduced the complete length of her punishment on Tuesday. The verdict means Sanjita Chanu may also be stripped of her National Games silver medal.
Chanu can nonetheless select to attraction the ruling however appeared reluctant to go down the route.
This wasn’t the primary time that Chanu discovered herself within the doping web. Chanu was banned by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) in 2018 after she examined constructive for the anabolic steroid testosterone in a check carried out by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in 2017.
The doping expenses in opposition to Sanjita Chanu, nevertheless, have been dropped in 2020 by the IWF on account of “non-conformities” within the dealing with of her pattern.
Chanu has been certainly one of India’s most profitable weightlifters over the previous decade.
Besides her gold medals on the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games, Sanjita Chanu received a bronze medal on the 2011 Asian Championships and has three gold medals on the Commonwealth Championships – in 2012, 2015 and 2017.
Last 12 months, India’s Tokyo Olympians Shivpal Singh, Kamalpreet Kaur, Dhanalakshmi Sekar, Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Navjeet Kaur Dhillon and India’s promising lengthy jumper Aishwarya Babu have been additionally caught within the doping web. (ANI)