Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has released a list of eight sportspersons who had tested positive for performance enhancing drugs at the 33rd National Games at Guwahati in February 2007.
It has taken the IOA and Medical Commission four months to come up with the names with the IOA saying they had sent the samples to the World Ant-Doping Agency (WADA) lab in Bangkok to make sure the offenders had no excuse to escape.
The list also includes reigning world women’s boxing champion Jenny Lalremliani and Commonwealth silver medallist Vicky Batta.
The list has been forwarded to the respective sports federations for further action.
Lalremliani had won a gold medal for Mizoram in the 63 kg category defeating Delhi’s Pinki in the final.
She has tested positive for Furosemide, a diuretic, and the medal will now be forfeited. The Indian Amateur Boxing Federation has already banned her for two years.
Batta has represented India at several international meets and won the silver medal at the Commonwealth Games last year. He was also adjudged the best weightlifter at the Commonwealth Championships in Malta in 2004.
He was fined $5,000 for skipping out-of-competition tests when officials of the WADA came calling in Bangalore in 2005.
Another prominent offender was 400m gold medal winner Kerala’s Jasmin Joseph, who also claimed top honours at the All India Inter-varsity Athletics Championships held in Bangalore in January.
Taranjit Singh won gold for Assam in the +91 kg category in boxing, but now faces forfeiture of his yellow metal.
Javelin thrower Gajendra Kumar was the winner in the 2004 and 2006 editions of the Open Nationals and was second at the Guwahati Games before he was disqualified for using mephentermine.
The others who have been found guilty are national level wrestlers Amol Buchade and Monika Narwal and kabaddi player Jasvir Singh.
A total of 257 samples were sent to the WADA-accredited National Doping Control Centre in Bangkok for analysis.
All medals, points and prizes won by these competitors will be forfeited and their results at the Guwahati National Games will be struck off the records, an IOA press release said.
(With inputs from PTI)
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