Nigeria
teenager Chika Amalaha has been stripped of her Commonwealth Games
weightlifting gold medal after failing a doping test, the Commonwealth Games
Federation said on Friday, Reuters reports.
The
16-year-old, who won gold in the women’s women’s 53kg competition, provided
positive ‘A’ and ‘B’ samples that contained prohibited diuretics and masking
agents.
“The
Commonwealth Games Federation has determined that Nigerian weightlifter, Chika
Amalaha, has committed an anti-doping rule violation and has fully suspended
her from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow,” the CGF said in a statement.
“As a result,
Amalaha has been disqualified from her event at the Games, with her result in
the women’s weightlifting 53 kilogram competition nullified.”
Dika Toua
from Papua New Guinea has been awarded the gold medal with Indian duo Santoshi
Matsa and Swati Singh claiming silver and bronze.
Amalaha was
Nigeria’s first gold medal winner in Glasgow, equalling the Games snatch record
of 82kg with her first attempt before lifting 85kg on her third.
Her combined
total of 196kg was also a Games record, and according to the International
Weightlifting Federation she was the youngest women to win a weightlifting
title in Games history.
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