Triple jumper A.B. Arun’s National Games gold, which he stunningly received with a private greatest effort of 16.79m in Goa in November, has been taken away. The 25-year-old had damaged Asian Games bronze medallist Praveen Chithravel’s National Games file of 16.68m (2022) along with his last-round effort in Goa.
The up to date outcomes of the National Games, now accessible on the Athletics Federation of India’s web site, has marked Arun as DQ (disqualified) and has defined that it’s for a dope offence. The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) had been a really lively physique in Goa. Services’ Karthik Unnikrishnan, who completed second with 16.57m, has now been moved as much as the gold.
“My coach (Navy’s Shankar) told me about it, he sent me the updated results too but I have not got any intimation or letter about the issue,” the 25-year-old Arun, a Navy athlete who competed beneath the Services banner within the National Games, advised The Hindu on Monday.
“I’ve been very tense since I got the news. Now, I should talk to my coach and decide what I should do. I’ve come to Ballari for the JSW (Inspire Institute of Sport) trials, I came here about a week ago.”
Shankar, who trains Navy jumpers at Thenipalam close to Kozhikode and who had coached Arun on the National Games and National Open earlier, mentioned the triple jumper had talked about the small print of the proteins and gingseng, which he had used, within the type given to the dope-control officers.
“But he missed mentioning voveran, which he had taken for pain relief, in the form,” mentioned Shankar.
Arun, who had received the National Open gold in Bengaluru a fortnight earlier than the National Games with 16.46 — a private greatest then — had a really spectacular 2023 which made him the third greatest jumper within the nation final yr. His greatest until 2022 was 16.37m.
The National Games outcomes of eight different athletes have been additionally disqualified for dope offence however Arun was the lone gold medallist within the bunch.
The others are Goa’s Ajay Kumar (bronze in 5,000 and sixth in 10,000m), Punjab’s Harjodhvir Singh (fifth in 5,000m & DNF in 10,000m), Haryana’s 4x400m relay runner Parveen Kumar (crew was fourth), Uttar Pradesh’s Farman Ali (seventh in 20km stroll) within the males’s part and Punjab’s Kamaljeet Kaur (200m silver, 100m sixth — she was additionally the National Open 200m champion earlier), Gujarat’s Drashti Chaudhari (5,000m bronze), UP’s Rachana (hammer bronze) and Kerala’s V. Neha (crew received 4x100m relay silver) within the ladies’s part.
