NEW DELHI: India’s quickest girl athlete, Dutee Chand, who holds the nationwide 100m document of a sensational 11.17s, which she recorded in 2021 (Indian Grand Prix 4 in Patiala), has been banned for 4 years for failing twin out-of-competition dope checks for selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) in December final 12 months.

Dutee’s ban interval shall be efficient from January 3, 2023.
During this era, “all the competitive results obtained by the athlete from the date of her sample collection, which was December 5, 2022, shall stand disqualified with all resulting consequences including forfeiture of medals, points and prizes,” the Anti Doping Disciplinary Panel (ADDP), headed by its chairperson Chaitanya Mahajan, mentioned in its order handed on Thursday, a replica of which is with TOI.

The ADDP famous: “The athlete though has satisfied the panel with the source of ingestion of the prohibited substance but was not able to establish the no significant fault or negligence. In view of the totality of circumstances, the athlete has failed to establish that the said anti doping rule violation (ADRV) was unintentional due to following reasons: 1) The athlete instead of consulting a physician allegedly consulted her physiotherapist and consumed the medicines prescribed by her. 2) The athlete did not check the label with respect to the contents of the medicine consumed by her. 3) The athlete didn’t cross check the contents of the drugs with the latest published lists of prohibited substances by WADA.”
“The athlete has violated article 2.1 and 2.2 of the National Anti Doping Agency (NADA)… she is hereby sanctioned with an ineligibility period of four years as per article 10.2.1.1 of the NADA ADR 2021 beginning from the date of provisional suspension i.e. January 3, 2023. It shall be noted that the athlete has failed to satisfy the panel that the ADRV was non-intentional as per article 10.2.1.1 of the NADA ADR 2021,” the order added.
Dutee, a double silver medallist on the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games in 100m and 200m races, was examined twice on December 5 and 26, 2022 by Nada’s dope management officers in Bhubaneswar. While her first pattern revealed the presence of anabolic brokers andarine, ostarine and ligandrol, the second pattern had traces of andarine and ostarine.
She had the choice of going for her ‘B’ pattern testing inside a interval of seven days from the date of receiving the adversarial analytical discovering (AAF) discover, however she didn’t go for it, ensuing within the imposition of the provisional suspension by Nada.
Athletics Federation of India (AFI) president, Adille Sumariwalla, had earlier advised TOI that Dutee was neither part of the nationwide camp nor coaching underneath nationwide coach N Ramesh in Hyderabad.
Dutee now has 21 days to file an enchantment with the anti-doping enchantment panel (ADAP) from the date of receipt of choice by the interesting get together.