Commonwealth Games: Third Nigerian tests positive for drugs

Published on Friday 15 October 2010 20:14

A THIRD Nigerian runner has failed a doping test at the Commonwealth Games and been stripped of two silver medals.

Folashade Abugan tested positive for a steroid and waived her right to have a "B" sample tested, the Commonwealth Games Federation announced yesterday, the morning after closing ceremony in Delhi.

She won a silver medal in the 400 metres and was part of the Nigerian team which finished second in the women's 4x400 metre relay.

Two other Nigerian runners tested positive to a banned stimulant methylhexaneamine during the games.

Osayomi Oludamola was stripped of a gold medal in the women's 100 metres and Samuel Okon, who was sixth in the final of the men's 110 metre hurdles, was also disqualified.

Indian race walker Rani Yadav tested positive for the banned steroid nandrolone after finishing sixth in the 20-kilometer event. Yadav and Abugan face bans of up to two years.

Yesterday's announcement from the CGF came only hours after the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority announced it had banned another Nigerian athlete for two years for testing positive for an anabolic agent.

ASADA said Nigerian Olympic sprinter Bowa Lawal tested positive for the prohibited substance methandienone in March at the IAAF's 2010 Melbourne Track Classic.

Nigerian officials at the Commonwealth Games said they were investigating the spate of doping findings. After the second positive was revealed, a Nigerian athletics official said every athlete who prepared for the Delhi Games in Nigeria had undergone out-of-competition testing.

All Abugan's results were nullified, meaning the silver medal for the 400 will be awarded to Aliann Tabitha Pompey of Guyana, with the bronze medal going to Christine Amertil of the Bahamas.

In the women's relay, England will be elevated to the silver medal position and Canada will be awarded bronze.

Oludamola and Okon had their Delhi results nullified.