Maharashtra sprinter Aishwarya Mishra “disappeared” after winning a gold medal at the Federation Cup National Championships last month by tricking dope testing agencies and authorities are still searching for her whereabouts. Aishwarya has not won any international medal so far, but she did win the gold medal in the women’s 400m race in the Federation Cup in Kozhikode from April 2-6 with a timing of 51.18s.
During this time she also became the third fastest time runner in this race. Due to this stellar performance, Aishwarya made it to the World Championships to be held in the US in July. Among Indian athletes, only Hima Das (50.79) and Manjeet Kaur (51.05) have managed to have better time than her. Since then, dope testers from the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) and even World Athletics’ independent body ‘Athletics Integrity Unit’ (AIU) have been looking for Aishwarya to take her sample, but they cannot trace her whereabouts. Couldn’t install.
Seeing his impressive performance in the Federation Cup, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) included him in the Indian team for the 400m race, which was to train in Turkey to prepare for the upcoming major competitions, including the Commonwealth Games, but failed to participate in it. also did not participate. A source close to the national camp told PTI on condition of anonymity, “She is evading dope tests by AIU and NADA and the AFI is unable to trace her. Nobody knows where he is now. She has disappeared after winning the gold medal in the Federation Cup.
He said, “Her performance in the Federation Cup could not be ignored, so the AFI included her in the team attending the practice camp in Turkey.” Received ‘wrong number’ messages on calling. The AFI and its Maharashtra unit tried to trace Aishwarya’s whereabouts through former and current coaches to persuade her to join the national camp, but to no avail.
Aishwarya first came into the limelight in October 2019 during the Inter College Athletics competition of the University of Mumbai as she clocked 52.40 seconds in the 400m race. Soon after he was inducted into the national camp. That year also he was selected for a training camp in Turkey. His performance at that time was viewed with suspicion by some but after his poor performance in 2020, he was not selected for the national camp. He won a silver medal in the 400m for Maharashtra at the National Interstate Championships in 2021.
He also won a silver medal in the 200m in the Federation Cup last month. The source said, “During the practice camp, 52 seconds was she not able to clock 54 seconds. He was thrown out of the national camp after the COVID-19 lockdown.” AFI President Adile Sumariwala said that he is not a part of the national camp, so the federation cannot do much in such a case. Sumariwala said, “He is not in the camp and there is not much we can do. So AFI is not involved in this (Aishwarya’s dope test). She was selected for a training camp in Turkey but she did not come so we are trying to find out where she is now. We want to persuade him to join the national camp.”
Maharashtra Athletics Association secretary Satish Uchil said even his organization was not aware of Aishwarya’s whereabouts. “She was earlier practicing at the SAI (Sports Authority of India) training center in Kandivali (Mumbai suburb). I contacted his local coach there but they also don’t know his current whereabouts.” is not in. It has also been learned that the man is a former athlete and was banned for eight years by the NADA in 2016 for being caught in doping.