Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu fails dope test, risks losing her CWG gold
Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu, who won the gold in women’s weightlifting at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018, has been tested positive in the dope test and now, is at risk of losing her CWG 2018 gold medal. Shocked by the incident, Sanjita Chanu hopes to return clean from the doping slur.
Doping has been something which has constantly haunted Indian weightlifting and it has returned to cast its shadow on women weightlifting this time. As per reports from TOI, leading woman weightlifter and two-time Commonwealth Games champion, Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu, has failed a dope test. Her sample has tested positive for anabolic steroid testosterone, which has resulted in her immediate provisional suspension by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) on Thursday.
Sanjita Chanu, who holds the record of becoming only the second woman weightlifter after Kunjarani Devi to win gold in two different editions of the CWG (Glasgow 2014 and Gold Coast 2018), is now at risk of losing her Gold Coast CWG gold in the women’s 53kg category.
“IWF reports that the sample of Sanjita Chanu Khumukcham has returned an adverse analytical finding for testosterone (S1.1 anabolic agents). As a consequence, the athlete is provisionally suspended in view of a potential anti-doping rule violation,” the IWF said as quoted by TOI.
Sanjita was shocked by the development and insisted that she had only taken supplements provided by the Federation and her samples have always tested negative.
“I have only taken supplements provided by the Federation and my samples (both urine and blood) have been tested many times but it was always negative,” Sanjita Chanu told TOI on Thursday.
She revealed that she had given her samples to NADA/WADA team twice and both tested negative and the sample which has tested positive was given in between those samples. She asserted that she has done no wrong on her part.
“Before I left for the Worlds I gave my sample and the NADA/WADA team took my sample again in Patiala after we returned from
“If the B sample is also positive, then I’m sure something has happened. Either, they tested the wrong sample or someone spiked my sample. We all took the same supplements and how come only my sample returned a positive test. It can’t happen that away,” Chanu added.