India’s Swapna Barman on Thursday tendered an “unconditional apology” for her sensational allegations that she misplaced out on a bronze medal within the girls’s heptathlon competitors of the continued Asian Games to a “transgender” athlete. Swapna, who received the gold medal within the 2018 version of the Asian Games in Jakarta, alleged that compatriot Nandini Agasara was ineligible to compete within the girls’s occasion as she is a “transgender” however later deleted her put up from social media. However, she apologised for her remarks on at the present time by means of her social media account. “I wish to tender my unconditional apology for my tweet the other day specially to my co-athlete (it) was the sheer disappointment and momentous emotional outburst which made me react in this manner against the ethos of sports and deeply feels sorry everyone for my emotional reaction,” Swapna wrote on X.

Nandini received the bronze medal within the girls’s heptathlon in Hangzhou, whereas Swapna did not defend her crown, settling for the fourth place on Sunday.

“I have lost my Asian Games bronze medal to a transgender woman at the 19th Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China. I want my medal back as it is against the rules of athletics. Help me and support me please,” Barman had mentioned after the occasion.

Nandini aggregated a complete of 5712 factors, a private greatest. She topped the ultimate occasion of the heptathlon, the 800m race, to make sure a spot on the rostrum, forward of Barman.

Besides the 800m occasion, Nandini additionally received the 200m race, which earned her 936 factors.

As per the principles of World Athletics, which got here into impact from March 31 this 12 months, each single athlete who has gone by means of what has been outlined as ‘male puberty’ by the worldwide physique is barred from competing in feminine world rating occasions.

Swapna managed 5708 factors on the Hangzhou video games to accept fourth place within the girls’s heptathlon as China’s Ninali Zheng received the gold medal after accumulating a complete of 6149 factors.

Ekaterina Voronina of Uzbekistan took the silver with 6056 factors. PTI AH AH UNG