Mandeep Kaur (sprinter)
_Mandeep_Kaur_of_India_won_the_Gold_Medal,_at_Jawaharlal_Nehru_Stadium,_in_New_Delhi_on_October_12,_2010_(cropped).jpg) Portrait of Mandeep Kaur | |
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| Born | 19 April 1988 (age 36) Jagadhri, Yamunanagar, Haryana, India |
Mandeep Kaur (born 19 April 1988 in Jagadhri) is an Indian athlete who mainly competes in the 400 meters. She competed at the 2008 Olympic Games, but failed to pass the first round.[1] Mandeep Kaur won gold medals in the women's 4 x 400 metres relay events at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2010 and 2014 Asian Games.[2]
On 29 June 2011, Reuters reported that she had tested positive for the anabolic steroids methandienone and stanozolol during off-season tests, following the same day announcement of the Athletics Federation of India.[3] She blamed the results on tainted food supplements, and denied taking any banned substance knowingly.[4] After a total of 6 Indian female 400m runners tested positive, including Mandeep's teammates at the Commonwealth Games, Ashwini Akkunji and Sini Jose, the team coach, Ukrainian Yuri Ogrodnik, was fired by India's Sport's Minister Ajay Maken.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Mandeep Kaur". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ^ "Asian Games: India wins gold in 4x400m women's relay". Mint. 2 October 2014.
- ^ Sudipto Ganguly (29 June 2011). "Athletics-Indian pair fail doping test". Reuters. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.
Leading Indian 400 metres pair Mandeep Kaur and Juana Murmu have failed doping tests, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) said on Wednesday
- ^ "Mandeep claims innocence, wants food supplements to be tested". The Times of India. 1 July 2011. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
- ^ "Coach sacked in India dope scandal". Herald Sun. 6 July 2011.
External links
[edit]- Mandeep Kaur at World Athletics
- Mandeep Kaur at Olympedia (archive)
- Mandeep Kaur at Olympics.com
- Mandeep Kaur at the Incheon 2014 Asian Games (archived)
Commonwealth Games champions in women's 4 × 400 metres relay | |
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- 1988 births
- Living people
- Indian female sprinters
- Olympic athletes for India
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for India
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Asian Games gold medalists for India
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games
- Doping cases in athletics
- Indian sportspeople in doping cases
- People from Yamunanagar district
- Sportswomen from Haryana
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
- Athletes from Haryana
- Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Asian Athletics Championships winners
- Asian Indoor Athletics Championships winners