30 Indian athletes have been placed under provisional suspension by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) after failing dope tests.
Commonwealth Championships gold-winning weightlifter Popy Hazarika, U-20 hammer throw national champion Anshika Singh, and Senior National Open 1500m bronze medallist Sunita were among several athletes across various sports placed under provisional suspension by NADA.
The NADA released names of more than 30 athletes across sports — mainly from athletics, weightlifting, wrestling, and powerlifting — in the latest list.
Hazarika won gold in the 2023 Commonwealth Championships in Noida, while Anshika won the hammer throw title in the 2024 National U20 Championships.
The list of track and field athletes who were put under provisional suspension also included National U-20 medal winner sprinter Anusha Biswas.
Biswas won a silver medal in the 39th National Junior Athletics Championship in 2024.
The list also included three minors.
The list of sportspersons under provisional suspension in weightlifting includes Shyopat Singh, Avinash, Sachin Mehmi, Hansraj, Khushi Kag, Vikas Variya, Ganesh Kushwaha, Kavinder, Gurwinder Singh, Srilakshmi Chukka, Bhinder Pal, Manpreet Kaur, Kuldeep Sahu, Harshit Angadi.
In powerlifting, Popy Hazarika, Mohan Kumar, Ruturaj Prakash, Mohit Kumar, Aditya Sharma, Pratheeksha GN, Kchetrapal Singh, PV Manjesh, Pravati Singh, Honey Dabas (Para) have been placed under suspension.
In wrestling, the list includes Gesu, Mohit Khokhar, Bunty, Gaurav Kumar, Ankit, Amit, Shubham Babaso, and Savita.
The list of athletes suspended by NADA are Muskan Rana, Manjeet Kumar Mahto, Sunita, Pranita Bavadekar, Mayank Yadav, Vijay Ramajayam, M Sathish Kumar, R Lavanya, Ravi, Aleena Vincent, Gulshan Dungdung, Anshika Singh, Anusha Biswas, Sipra Sarkar (participation during ineligibility period).
Shivendra Pandey( Basketball), Aman (Wushu), Shankar Thapa and Sri Vengatesh (Boxing), Surinder Kumar, Vivek, Abhijeet Malik (Kabaddi), R Anitha, Neha, Jatin (Judo), Luv Kumar Yadav, Gurnoor Poonia(Cycling), Nina Shil(handball) have been suspended for failing dope test.
Besides, para-athletics Vishnu Kant, Kalaiselvan Kalyansundaram have also been placed under provisional suspension by NADA.
