Archive · 3 Oct 2026
Indian Kurash Player Suspended After Positive Asian Games Test
Indian kurash athlete Yash Kumar Chauhan had a drug test during the Asian Games.
His sample was collected while he was competing on September 27.
The Olympic Council of Asia said the test found several substances that are not allowed in sport.
The substances named were Metandienone metabolites, GW1516 metabolites, and Mephentermine and its metabolite.
Chauhan was suspended for now while his case is considered.
He cannot compete, train, coach, or take part in other Games activities during the suspension.
He can challenge the suspension and ask for a second sample to be tested.
He lost his round-of-16 match in the 90kg event.
India won one kurash medal, a bronze for Pincky Balhara.
Yash Kumar Chauhan’s competition sample, collected September 27, returned an adverse analytical finding for prohibited substances.
The OCA reported Metandienone metabolites, GW1516 metabolites, and Mephentermine and its metabolite in the sample.
Chauhan was provisionally suspended immediately and barred from competing, training, coaching, or other Asian Games activities while his case is pending.
He may challenge the suspension before the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s Anti-Doping Division and request analysis of his B-sample.
Chauhan lost his 90kg round-of-16 bout to Tajikistan’s Mirmamadov Shakarmamad; India’s only kurash medal was Pincky Balhara’s bronze.
- Who
- Indian kurash player Yash Kumar Chauhan.
- What
- He received an adverse analytical finding for prohibited substances and was provisionally suspended.
- When
- His sample was collected on September 27; the OCA announced the suspension on Saturday, October 3.
- Where
- At the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
- Why
- The OCA said his sample contained Metandienone metabolites, GW1516 metabolites, and Mephentermine and its metabolite.
- Athlete
- Yash Kumar Chauhan, 24
- Sport
- Kurash
- Sample collection
- September 27, during competition
- Reported substances
- Metandienone metabolites, GW1516 metabolites, Mephentermine and its metabolite
- Suspension
- Provisional and effective immediately, pending resolution of the case
- Available options
- Challenge the suspension before the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s Anti-Doping Division and request B-sample analysis
- Competition result
- Lost the 90kg round-of-16 bout to Mirmamadov Shakarmamad of Tajikistan
- India’s kurash medal
- One bronze, won by Pincky Balhara in the women’s 78kg category
