Former javelin throw National record holder Rajender Singh has tested positive for a banned substance in an out-of-competition test conducted in April last year.
The Athletics Integrity Unit reveals in its new list that the test was taken on April 30 last year and that the javelin thrower has now been suspended for four years till July 22, 2025.
A senior coach from the Patiala National camp confirmed the development on Saturday and said that Rajender was the National record holder before Neeraj Chopra recently improved it to 89.30m in Finland.
Rajender, from Haryana, represented the country in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, where he was sixth, and at the Incheon Asiad finishing 11th. He was also fourth in the 2010 New Delhi Commonwealth Games. His last competition was in June 2021 at the inter-State Nationals in Patiala where he was third.
Rajender broke Anil Kumar Singh’s seven-year-old national record in 2015 with an 82.23m throw, his personal best, at the National Games in Thiruvananthapuram and Neeraj bettered for the first time it in 2016.
