400m runner Adekoya who broke Darsha’s record ,suspended for using banned substances

Four-time Asian Games champion Kemi Adekoya has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for an anabolic steroid.

The Athletics Integrity Unit said Monday that a “notice of allegation” was sent to Adekoya, a Nigerian-born runner who switched allegiance to Bahrain.

The AIU said on its website the 25-year-old Adekoya tested positive for stanozolol — the steroid that sprinter Ben Johnson used at the 1988 Seoul Olympics — in November.

In August at the Asian Games, she took gold in the 400-meter hurdles and 4×400 mixed relay.

Adekoya switched to Bahrain before the 2014 Asian Games and won the 400 and 400 hurdles. In 2016, she was world indoor champion in the 400, and competed in the 400 at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

Darsha’s record 

In 2014 She made her Asian Game debut for Bahrain and broke the long standing Asian Games 400m record of Damayanthi Darsha by clocking 51.11 seconds. Darsha set the record of 51.13 seconds in 2002 Asian Games which stood for 12 years before Bahrain’s hired athlete from Nigeria shattered it .

Also Monday, the AIU imposed a two-year ban on Kenyan distance runner Lucy Kabuu for a positive test for morphine.

Kabuu had her results stripped from April to August, including a victory at the Milan Marathon, and is banned through July 2020.

She still ranks in the top-30 all-time list in women’s marathon for a winning run in Dubai in 2012. A 10,000-meter specialist on the track, Kabuu was the 2006 Commonwealth Games champion and represented Kenya at the 2004 Athens Olympics and 2008 Beijing Olympics, placing fifth.