New Delhi, April 28: Asian Games 4x400m relay gold-winning quarter-miler VK Vismaya has been handed two-year suspension by the NADA’s Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel, nearly two years after she tested positive for a banned substance.
Vismaya, who was a part of the Indian women’s quartet that won gold in 4x400m relay in the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, was provisionally suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) in 2024 after her urine sample was found to contain Clomiphene which comes under the hormone and metabolic modulators category and which is prohibited at all times.
Clomiphene is a non-steroidal medication used clinically to induce ovulation in women, and the 29-year-old Vismaya said she had taken it as a fertility drug.
Meanwhile, sprinter N Shanmuga Srinivas has been handed four-year ban by the ADDP from February 6, 2025 for “Evading, Refusing or Failing to Submit to Sample Collection”. (PTI)
