Champion weightlifter Sanjita Chanu fails in dope test, may lose CWG Gold
New Delhi, June 1 (IBNS): India's two-time Commonwealth Games champion weightlifter Sanjita Chanu might has been tested positive for a banned drug, which may cost her the Gold Cost gold medal, media reports said.
The 24-year-old ace weightlifter from Manipur was provisionally suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) on Thursday.
Chanu, who had won a gold in the women's 53kg category in the recent Gold Coast CWG, was tested positive for testosterone.
Before Gold Cost, she had won Commonwealth Games Gold in Glasgow in 2014.
"IWF reports that the sample of Ms. Sanjita Chanu Khumukcham (IND) has returned an Adverse Analytical Finding for Testosterone (S1.1 Anabolic Agents). As a consequence, the Athlete is provisionally suspended in view of a potential anti-doping rule violation," the reports quoted IWF as saying.
In her defence, Sanjita said she had just taken supplements provided by the IWF. "I have only taken supplements provided by the Federation and my samples (both urine and blood) have been tested many times but it was always negative," she said, as quoted by The Times of India.
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