Jani Chathurangani

Jani Chathurangani Silva
Personal information
Nationality Sri Lanka
Born (1981-08-21) 21 August 1981
Sri Lanka
Sport
Sport Running
Event(s) 100 metres, 200 metres
College team represented the Sri Lankan Air Force

Jani Chathurangani Chandra Silva Hondamuni (born: August 21, 1981) is a Sri Lankan track and field athlete who competes mainly in sprinting.[1]

South Asian Games

In 2006 the South Asian Games held in Colombo, she clocked 11.76 seconds to take the women's 100m silver medal and was also part of the 4x100 relay team which won gold.[2] After the games, during a doping test she tested positive for Nandrolone.[3]

Doping ban

After the 2006 South Asian Games held in Colombo, she was tested positive for Nandrolone. She gave two urine sample A and B. Both contained high level of Nandrolone, sample A contained 27.5 ng/ml and sample B contained half as much as the first sample of 27.5 ng/ml. However the tolerance for doping by the world anti-doping body WADA is only 2 ng/ml. She was suspended pending further enquiries.

The Disciplinary Committee (DC) of the South Asian Games, Wijayadasa Rajapaksa delivered the controversial ruling at a news conference held at the National Sports Medicine Institute in Sri Lanka. Despite Silva guilty of taking a banned anabolic steroid Nandralone, Rajapaksa's DC cleared the 26-year-old woman sprinter of all charges, stating that the "chain of custody" of the medical investigation was not coordinated properly. Despite the Medical Committee stating that urine sample A contained a very high percentage of Nandralone and a high concentration like that can only go to blood by injection form. Silva was cleared of the charges and is allowed to continue athletics. The decision was later overturened by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and she was handed a two-year doping ban.[4] The ban ran from 14 April 2008 to 13 April 2010.[4] She was also disqualified from all results from 25 August 2006.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Sunday Observer of Colombo, May 16, 2004: "Jani Chathurangani: Speed Queen Running To Reach The Stars"
  2. ↑ Daily News (Sri Lanka), Sep. 27, 2006: "Lanka eyes Doha medal after 4 x 100m. success at SAG"
  3. ↑ Sri Lanka News First, Nov. 2, 2006: "Jani found guilty likely to lose her medals"
  4. 1 2 3 IAAF: Doping Rule violation, iaaf.org via web.archive.org, 23 April 2008



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