New Delhi: Shot-putter Kiran Baliyan was provisionally suspended for doping while wrestler Bajrang Punia was not include in the latest National Anti Doping Agency’s list of offenders issued on Wednesday.
Bronze medal winner at 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, Baliyan has tested positive for a banned substance and is among several athletes across sports to have been caught in the dope net.
But Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Bajrang Punia’s omission raised eyebrows as his name was in NADA’s previous list after he was suspended for the second time on June 23.
That suspension was revoked by anti-disciplinary doping panel, judging that the Wrestling Federation of India didn’t served a “notice of charge” to him.
NADA had suspended Punia on April 23 for failing tp provide his urine sample during selection trials in Sonepat on March 10, followed by suspension from United Wrestling World as well.
On appeal, ADDP revoked the suspension on May 31 untill NADA issued notice of charge. Punia had filed to qualify for Paris Olympic after leading a lenghty protest against former WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is on trial for alleged sexual misconduct.
Baliyan in dock
Baliyan is the send Indian women with an Asian Games shot put medal and has been found positive for anabolic steroid metandienone. The 25-year-old was a gold medallist at the 2023 National Inter-State Championships and stares at a maximum ban of four years if her second sample also ocmes out positive.
Incheon Asian Games bronze medallist hammer thrower Manju Bala tested positive for steroid dehydrochloromethyl-testosterone and SARMS LGD-4033 (ligandrol) while Shalini Chaudhary tested positive for the steroid metandienone.
Long-distance runner Chavi Yadav was also in the suspension list for anabolic-androgenic steroid drostanolone.
Javelin thrower D P Manu, quarter-miler Deepanshi and middle-distance runner Parvej Khan have also been provisionally suspended.
U-20 World Championships bronze medallist wrestler Arju tested positive for stanozolol.
Badminton doubles spcialist Krishna Prasad Garaga who was part of India’s Thomas Cup winning team in 2022 tested positive for Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG).
Wushu players T Menaka Devi, Manjinder Singh and Goutam Sharma along with Bhupendra Singh Byadwal (pencak silat), Ashish Phugat (rowing) and Ribason Singh Ningthoujam (canoe) were also suspended for doping.
Bajrang Punia’s omission raised eyebrows as his name was in NADA’s previous list after he was suspended for the second time on June 23 Other Sports Sports News: Latest Cricket News, Cricket Live Score, Sports Breaking News from Sports Today
