Commonwealth Games gold medallist Sanjita Chanu fails dope test

Sanjita Chanu with her gold medal after winning the women's 53kg weightlifting event at the CWG this year. Pic/PTI

Dope shame returned to haunt Indian weightlifting as two-time Commonwealth Games champion Sanjita Chanu tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid and was provisionally suspended by the international federation.

International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said on its website that Sanjita, who had won a gold in the women's 53kg category in the recent Gold Coast CWG, has tested positive for testosterone. "IWF reports that the sample of Ms. Sanjita Chanu Khumukcham (IND) has returned an Adverse Analytical Finding for Testosterone.

As a consequence, the athlete is provisionally suspended in view of a potential anti-doping rule violation. In any case where it is determined that the Athlete did not commit an anti-doping rule violation, the relevant decision will also be published," the IWF stated..

The IWF did not give details, such as the dates of the dope test sample collection, saying "it will not make any further comments on the case until it is closed".

It has been learnt that Sanjita has been asked to leave the camp and she has left for her home in Manipur. The other weightlifters are currently training at SAI Centre at Shilaroo in Himachal Pradesh.

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