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IPC bans Indian para-athlete Anmol Vasistha for three years after positive test
Published: 17/10/26 12:31
New Delhi | India
New Delhi, Oct 17 (UNI) India's Anmol Vasistha has been handed a three-year ban by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) after testing positive for a prohibited anabolic steroid at the New Delhi World Para Athletics Grand Prix in March. According to the IPC, Vasistha returned an adverse analytical finding for a metabolite of dehydrochloromethyl-testosterone (DHCMT) in an in-competition urine sample collected on March 11 during the men's javelin throw F55 event. DHCMT is an anabolic androgenic steroid listed on the World Anti-Doping Agency's 2026 Prohibited List. Vasistha was provisionally suspended on April 24 while the case was being examined. He…