Indian discus thrower Navjit Kaur Dhillon has been banned for utilizing banned substances, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) stated on Friday.
2018 Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Dhillon had examined constructive for a metabolite of the anabolic steroid dehydrochloromethyl testosterone (DHCMT).
Dhillon, 27, instructed AIU earlier this month that she had used a complement she was not conscious of, which contained a banned substance.
The normal ban is 4 years and, whereas Dhillon didn’t inadvertently present proof of consumption of the banned substance, his ban was lowered to 1 12 months as he accepted the ADRV and accepted the sanction.
Russian race walker Aleksandr Ivanov was additionally banned as a result of knowledge from a Moscow laboratory offered by a whistleblower confirmed certainly one of Ivanov’s samples contained substances recognized to be hormones and metabolic modulators.
The 29-year-old was knowledgeable in regards to the findings by the AIU in May this 12 months, however didn’t reply. Since he didn’t present an evidence throughout the time restrict, it was thought of an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV).
So Ivanov was given “an additional two-year period of disqualification” from the date of the choice.
He had already served a two-year ban for doping and was stripped of his gold medal on the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, dropping medals he received between July 2012 and August 2014.
Igor Yerokhin, who ran one other race, was additionally discovered responsible of violating anti-doping guidelines. The 36-year-old is already serving a life ban.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
