When Mohammed Nur Hasan clocked a formidable 8:30.56s whereas profitable the gold on the Federation Cup in Ranchi final yr and climbed to the second rung in India’s all-time 3000m steeple chase checklist, many puzzled whether or not he would slowly take over from Asian Games champion and nationwide record-holder Avinash Sable.
But surprisingly, a few months after that gorgeous run, Hasan had a DNF (didn’t end) on the Asian Championships in Bangkok. The 22-year-old National Open champion from the Services has now been provisionally suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency for an obvious anti-doping rule violation.
Railways’ Hemraj Gurjar, the National cross-country males’s champion, and girls’s silver medallist Anjali Kumari from Bihar — each competed in final month’s cross-country Worlds in Belgrade — additionally determine within the NADA’s up to date checklist of athletes who at the moment are beneath provisional suspension.
Gujarat’s 2019 Asian 10,000m silver medallist Murli Gavit, the winner of the unusual 5000m race eventually October’s National Open in Bengaluru — a race which no person appeared eager to win — is without doubt one of the outstanding names within the checklist.
Meanwhile, the Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel (ADDP) has handed out a two-year suspension (from Aug. 10, 2023) to Tamil Nadu’s G. Lakshmanan, the star of the 2017 Bhubaneswar Asian Championships the place he gained the 5000m and 10,000m golds. UP’s feminine sprinter Himani Chandel has been punished with a four-year ban (from June 15, 2023).
The NADA checklist additionally contains many others from different sports activities who’ve been punished with suspensions starting from two to 4 years. Seventeen minors, with a majority from weightlifting and athletics, have additionally obtained two to four-year bans.
