Shot putter Karan handed four-year ban for doping

New Delhi, February 9

Shot putter Karanveer Singh and discus thrower Kirpal Singh were among several sportspersons who were handed bans for four years by the National Anti-Doping Agency’s (NADA) disciplinary panel. NADA issued the list of the athletes who were handed bans by the panel today.

Kirpal’s ban period began on July 7, 2023, while Karanveer will serve his ban from July 26, 2023. The 25-year-old Karanveer, who had won a bronze in the Federation Cup last year, had returned positive for methandienone and SARMS enobosarm. He was pulled out of the Indian team for the Asian Championships last year. Kirpal, who had won gold in last year’s National Inter-State Championships, had tested positive for stanozolol.

Meanwhile, quartermiler Nirmala Sheoran has been handed an eight-year ban. The 28-year-old had returned to competition at the National Inter-State Championships in June last year in Bhubaneswar after serving a four-year ban for a doping offence in 2018.

“It’s an out of competition test and her sample was taken in Jaipur,” an athletics team source said.

Sheoran’s ban starts from August 7, 2023. She had tested positive for “Anabolic Androgenic Steroids (AAS) and Testosterone (T)”.