Sneha.
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Quartermiler Sneha Kolleri has been compelled out of the Indian group for this week’s Asian Athletics Championships in South Korea after testing constructive for a banned substance.
“I got here to know that she isn’t coming to Korea as a result of she failed a dope check,” Nationwide chief coach Radhakrishnan Nair advised The Hindu from Gumi, the Asian Championships venue, on Sunday.
No particulars relating to the prohibited substance or when the check was taken had been obtainable.
Suffered an damage: Sneha
When contacted, Sneha denied she had failed a dope check.
“I suffered an ankle twist and am unable to run,” stated the 26-year-old from Thiruvananthapuram.
Nationwide camper Sneha was a part of the Indian blended relay group on the World Relays in China two weeks in the past, her first main worldwide occasion, and had been named for the Asian Championships group in each the ladies’s and blended relays.
The Kerala athlete was the fourth quickest Indian 400m runner this yr — behind Aishwarya Mishra, Rupal Chaudhray and Vithya Ramraj — and had claimed the bronze in final month’s Federation Nationals in Kochi clocking a private greatest 53.00s which additionally put her eighth on this yr’s Asian checklist. Until final yr, her private greatest was 53.51.
She had additionally clocked a 200m private greatest (23.59) within the Indian Grand Prix in Thiruvananthapuram on Could 17.
Sandramol additionally misses out
It’s learnt that one other quartermiler, Sandramol Sabu, couldn’t journey to South Korea as she had suffered a knee damage. That might additional weaken the mile relay group.
Unusually Aishwarya Mishra, the nation’s quickest quartermiler this yr — 51.12 whereas profitable the Nationwide Video games gold in Dehradun in February — and final yr’s quickest 400m runner Kiran Pahal (50.92s) skipped the Federation Nationals which was the Athletics Federation of India’s qualification occasion for the Gumi Asians.
Printed – Could 25, 2025 05:17 pm IST
